Life Support means it's not dead yet! - a short TL of a continuing WRE

395 – Theodosius I dies, leaving the two halves of the empire to his two sons; the half-vandal Stilicho, as magister militum, effectively controls the West

401 – Visigoths cross the Alps into northern Italy

402 – Stilicho defeats the Visigoths

403 – Visigoths invade Italy and are once more defeated by Stilicho

405 – A coalition of Barbarians under Radagaisus invades Italy

406 – Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine; Radagaisus is killed and his army ‘incorporated’ into the Roman one

407 - Constantine III rebels in Britain and crosses into Gaul

408 – Stilicho killed in coup; Alaric again invades Italy

409 – Constantine III’s officials expelled from Britain; Vandals, Alans and Suebians settled in Iberia; Alaric besieges Rome

410 – First Sack of Rome by Alaric’s Visigoths

411 – Constantine III defeated in Gaul; Burgundians and Visigoths settle in Gaul

413 – Visigoths take more of southern Gaul, defeat Roman usurper in the name of the emperor Honorius

415 – Romans drive Visigoths out of southern Gaul and into Iberia, where they clash with the Vandals

417 – Visigoths granted Aquitaine

418 – Visigoths take the rest of Vandal Iberia “for the Empire”

421 – Huns attack Thrace; Ostrogoths settled there in response

423 – Honorius dies, Joannes proclaimed western Emperor, but not accepted by the eastern emperor Theodosius II

424 – Joannes sends Flavius Aetius to ask the Huns for assistance

425 - Joannes defeated by Theodosius II; Valentinian III placed on the throne; Aetius arrives with a large Hunnic force and obtains the rank of magister militum

426 – Aetius starts campaigning against the Visigoths in southern Gaul

427 – Pannonia lost to Huns; Bonifacius revolts in Africa

428 – Bonifacius invites Vandals into Africa

431 – Vandals take Hippo Regius in Africa and then make peace with Bonifacius

432 – Bonifacius defeates Aetius but dies in the process; Aetius achieves control over the Western Empire

436 – Aetius uses Hunnic mercenaries to defeat Burgundians

439 – Vandals occupy Carthage and Mediteranean Islands

442 – Vandal kingdom recognized; Sicilly returned to the Empire

447 – Attila invades and devastates the Balkans

450 – Honoria sends her ring to Attila, who demands half the western empire

451 – Attila invades Gauls but is eventually defeated by a Romano-German coalition led by Aetius

452 – Huns raid northern Italy

453 – Atilla dies, Hunnic Empire fractures

454 – Aetius killed by Valentinian III

455 – Valentinian III killed by some of Aetius’ former bodyguards; Petronius Maximus becomes emperor but is killed when the Vandals sack Rome; Avitus becomes emperor

456 – Avitus defeated by Ricimer and Majorian

457 – Majorian acclaimed Emperor

458 – Majorian succesfully campaigns against various barbarians

460 – Majorian defeated by Vandals

461 – Majorian executed by his magister militum Ricimer, who installs his own puppet emperor

468 – Eastern Emperor Leo I sends a huge expedition against the Vandals which ends in disaster

469 – Visigoths declare independence from the western empire

471 – Visigoths take more of Gaul; Ostrogoths revolt in the Balkans

472 – Ricimer dies, Gundobad becomes magister militum

473 – Gundobad nominates Glycerius as western emperor, Leo I, after some dithering, decides to nominate Julius Nepos (who ruled Dalmatia more or less autonomously) in opposition; Visigoths occupy Provence and again try and fail to invade Italy

474 – Julius Nepos arrives with an eastern army in Ostia and forces Glycerius to abdicate; Zeno becomes eastern emperor

475 – Basiliscus usurps the eastern throne, Zeno flees to Isauria; Julius Nepos appoints Ecdicius as magister militum; Visigoths give Provence back in return for Auvergne; Orestes, with the backing of the Senate, revolts against Nepos; Ecdicius is recalled from Gaul, but Nepos is still forced to flee to Dalmatia; Orestes appoints his son Romulus Augustulus as Emperor

476 – Orestes refuses to grant Odocer and the Heruli foederati status; Odoacer leads the army in revolt and kills Orestes, exiling Augustulus; Zeno defeats Basiliscus, regaining his throne; Julius Nepos is again recognized as nominal emperor after Zeno receives an embassy from the Roman Senate; Visigoths again occupy Provence but are driven out by Odoacer

478 – Goths under Theoderic Strabo revolt against Zeno, but are defeated the following year

479 – Theoderic the Amal revolts against Zeno; Julius Nepos begins ammasing a force to attack Odoacer and assume real control over Italy

480 – Assassination attempt against Nepos fails (POD). Ovida and Glycerius revolt against Nepos, but are betrayed by their own troops after a force of Ostrogoths under Theodric Strabo, who had been sent by Zeno, arrives in the area

481 – Theoderic Strabo is elavated to the title of patrician under the condition that he invades Odoacer’s Italy in support of Nepos

482 – Odoacer invades Dalmatia, hoping to catch his enemies off-guard, but is repulsed; Theoderic Strabo takes his branch of the Ostrogoths and moves into Italy

483 – Odoacer is defeated and killed; Theoderic Strabo confirmed as magister militum, continues to recognize Julius Nepos

484 – Leontius and Theoderic the Amal (who controls the other half of the Ostrogoths still in the Balkans) rebel against Zeno; Zeno achieves an understanding with Theoderic, naming him magister militum of the east and consul

486 – Syagrius is defeated by Clovis in Gaul, leading to the fall of the last Roman outpost west of Italy

488 – Zeno defeats Leontius

489 – Theoderic Strabo’s puppet emperor Julius Nepos dies aged 59; Flavius Manlius Boethius, from the influential Anicii family, is selected as the new western Emperor by Strabo and acclaimed as such by the Senate; Nepos’ son Leo (named in honor of Leo I, who had supported his fathers bid for the throne) rebels in Dalmatia and petitions Zeno to support him

490 – Theoderic the Amal invades Italy on behalf of Leo Nepos, battling his long-time rival Theoderic Strabo

491 – King Alaric of the Visigoths intervenes on behalf of Theoderic the Amal, who defeats Strabo and Boethius; Leo Nepos is crowned Western Emperor whilst Theoderic becomes King of the now united Ostrogoths and magister militum of the west; the childless Zeno dies and is succeeded by Anastasius; Zeno’s brother Longinus rebels against Anastasius in Asia Minor, starting the Isaurian War

to be continued
 
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I'm not entirely convinced Zeno wouldn't have continued to ignore Nepos' claims if only because it would have led him to remain the only Roman emperor, but I guess politically he can't really justify ignoring Nepos's pleas if he's still sending the Goths away into Italy.

Anyway, we had a timeline where the Roman Empire survived with a POD in 475, and now we have one with a POD in 480. Truly the latest POD possible, I applaud you my good sir. Will be following to see if Leo Nepos can outwit his puppet master.
 

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Looks promising.

Anyway, we had a timeline where the Roman Empire survived with a POD in 475, and now we have one with a POD in 480. Truly the latest POD possible, I applaud you my good sir. Will be following to see if Leo Nepos can outwit his puppet master.

Link please?
 
Thanks. I'll update it sometime this week - get ready for Flavius Theodericus, magister militum of the west!
 
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