Petronius Maximus

Petronius Maximus

Petronius Maximus (c. 397 – 31 May 455) was Roman emperor of the West for two and a half months in 455. A wealthy senator and a prominent aristocrat, he was instrumental in the murders of the Western Roman magister militum, Aëtius, and the Western Roman emperor, Valentinian III. After the assassination of the Western Roman magister militum, Aëtius, and the subsequent death of the Western Roman emperor, Valentinian III, Maximus secured the support of the Senate and utilized bribery to gain the favor of palace officials, enabling him to ascend to power. He strengthened his position by forcing Licinia Eudoxia, Valentinian's widow, to marry him and forcing her daughter Eudocia to marry his son, cancelling her betrothal to the son of the Vandal king Genseric. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Petronius Maximus has received more than 666,181 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Petronius Maximus is the 948th most popular politician (up from 1,042nd in 2019), the 409th most popular biography from Italy (up from 439th in 2019) and the 60th most popular Italian Politician.

Petronius Maximus was most famous for being a Roman Emperor. He was the emperor of Rome from 455 to 456.