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Gaius Pescennius Niger (c. 135 – 194) was a Roman usurper from 193 to 194 during the Year of the Five Emperors. He claimed the imperial throne in response to the murder of Pertinax and the elevation of Didius Julianus, but was defeated by a rival claimant, Septimius Severus, and killed while attempting to flee from Antioch. Early life.
Pescennius Niger, rival Roman emperor from 193 to 194. Niger was an army officer who was proclaimed emperor by his legions and was accepted as ruler in all the Asiatic provinces. Septimius Severus, who held power in Rome, marched east and decisively defeated Niger in the Battle of Issus in 194.
Lucius Pescennius Niger (c.140-194): Roman general, emperor for a short while in 193-194. Pescennius Niger. Lucius (or Gaius) Pescennius Niger was born in Aquinum, a modest provincial town in Italy, between 135 and 140. He was the son of a Roman knight named Annius Fuscus and his wife Lampridia.
Gaius Pescennius Niger was born into an Italian equestrian family in about AD 135. Made a senator by Commodus, he campaigned against the Sarmatians in Dacia in AD 183, alongside Clodius Albinus. He performed well and was rewarded with the consulship. In AD 190 he was made governor of Syria.
Jul 19, 2020 · Gaius Pescennius Niger was born into an Italian equestrian family in about AD 135. Made a senator by Commodus, he campaigned against the Sarmatians in Dacia in AD 183, alongside Clodius Albinus. He performed well and was rewarded with the consulship. In AD 190 he was made governor of Syria.
The Year of the Five Emperors was AD 193, in which five men claimed the title of Roman emperor: Pertinax, Didius Julianus, Pescennius Niger, Clodius Albinus, and Septimius Severus. This year started a period of civil war when multiple rulers vied for the chance to become emperor.
Gaius Pescennius Niger was governor of Syria in the year 193 when he learned of the emperor Pertinax's murder. Niger's subsequent attempt to claim the empire for himself ended in failure in Syria after roughly one year.
Dec 9, 2018 · Gaius Pescennius Niger was the Roman emperor ruling in 193-194 CE. He was raised to the throne by eastern legions. He fought in a civil war, among others with Septimius Severus.
Sep 24, 2012 · During the past six years the problem of the chronology of Niger's revolt in Syria has been studied in detail in three separate works. My own appeared in the United States in 1915, a book by Platnauer in England in 1918, and a work by Hasebroek in Germany in 1921.
Pescennius Niger. by. Aelius Spartianus. I. It is an unusual task and a difficult one to set down fairly in writing the lives of men who, through other men’s victories, remained mere pretenders, and for this reason not all the facts concerning such men are preserved in our records and histories in full.
