Roman Britain

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Instead of taking the mantle as the Emperor of the Western Roman Empire from his troops Magnus Maximus sets him and his troops up as the ruler of Roman Britain. This would allow possibly, for Britain to develop without the Anglo-Saxon influences. Could Roman Britain outlast the Roman Empire itself?
 
Instead of taking the mantle as the Emperor of the Western Roman Empire from his troops Magnus Maximus sets him and his troops up as the ruler of Roman Britain. This would allow possibly, for Britain to develop without the Anglo-Saxon influences. Could Roman Britain outlast the Roman Empire itself?

Why be ruler of an island when you can rule the entire empire? His troops will just kill him and replace him with someone who would make a move.
 

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It is more of a big fish small pond ideal.

Having severed in Britain twice, Magnus Maximus would know the country and the available resources.
 
Roman Britain was almonst undefendable anyway.
I mean, all its coast were raided by frison piracy, half of the island avoided the roman rule (and the other half wasn't in a really good situation), not enough population to even think sustain an army by taxes...

Even if Maximus was forced to stay on Britain, he wouldn't be able to keep the island "roman". At best, you'll have something like Syagrius desmese : more an army and a militia with a vague regional range and not a kingdom. And it wouldn't be enough to contain frisons, angles, saxons and franks that took Britain OTL.
 
Roman Britain was almonst undefendable anyway.
I mean, all its coast were raided by frison piracy, half of the island avoided the roman rule (and the other half wasn't in a really good situation), not enough population to even think sustain an army by taxes...
I might not be a population issue. Peter Heather says there is evidence suggesting Roman Britain was more populated than England was throughout the entire Middle Ages.
 
I've heard that too, which seems hard to square with this notion of Roman Britain as this poor backwater.
 
Which Roman Britain?
Roman Britain of classical times, having more population than Medieval England? Most probably.

Roman Britain of Late Antiquity? No. And we're about this one.
 
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