Maximinus Thrax was a Roman emperor for a short time during the third century of crisis, and although his real name was Gaius Julius Wels Maximinus, he is commonly known as Maximinus of Thrace. ..
The launch found by Emperor Severus
Although the Republic of Rome was open to the commoners, it was an oligarchy with a small number of people, and a large proportion of prestigious aristocrats occupied senior positions. On the other hand, it can be said that this military emperor era was blessed with a chance to become an emperor regardless of his birth.
Maximinus is from the province of Thracia and was born around 173 AD as a child of an unnamed shepherd.
Perhaps because he had been touching horses from an early age, he was accustomed to handling horses and wanted to join the army, but he had no Roman citizenship at the time. Therefore, he will join an auxiliary unit instead of a regular soldier.
Fortunately for him, Emperor Septimius Severus was in the province of Moesia at the same time he joined the army.
Not yet 20 years old, he began to appeal to his emperor.
Maximinus won 16 straight victories in a martial arts tournament within the corps, and the next day he was given the opportunity to have an audience with Emperor Septimius.
Emperor Septimius grinned at this young man with a good physique, and when he rode a horse, he said, "Can you follow me?" And ran the horse. At first, it was only a rush, but gradually it was made to run at full speed, but it is said that the young people from Thrace just followed.
Roman horses may not be as fast as the current thoroughbreds, but it's a phenomenal episode.
If you stop the horse, can you fight in this state? However, Maximinus shook his head vertically with a relaxed expression. And after that he left out seven people, so he's far from human. If he was born in modern society, he would have been a talented person who could win some kind of gold medal.
Emperor Septimius appointed him as a guard. Emperor Septimius fulfilled his natural life without being assassinated by his subordinates, perhaps because Maximinus was guarding himself.
It may be close to Xu Chu as it is called in the Three Kingdoms. However, since it is strong even on the battlefield, it is like Lu Bu and is probably stronger than Lu Bu.
After the death of Emperor Septimius, he seemed to have served his son, Emperor Karakala, but he seemed to have fulfilled his responsibilities without any particular advancement.
When Emperor Caracalla was assassinated, he returned to his hometown of Thrace and started farming without serving the next Emperor Macrinus. His management seemed to be going well, but after the death of Emperor Macrinus, Elagabalus of the Severan family became the emperor again, so he sold the farm and rushed to the emperor.
However, he seemed to hate Helio Gabalus, and he seemed to try not to meet each other as much as possible. It seems that he was serving the grace to Emperor Septimius rather than the emperor. He seems to be a warrior and popular, but I think it is a pity that he is not well known in Japan.
When Elagabalus is assassinated, he serves his younger brother Alexander Severus. It seems that it was a good match with Emperor Alexander, and Maximinus was appointed as the training manager of the recruits, and it seems that he trained the recruits quite severely but sometimes gently. I'm surprised that he's already 60 and he wasn't defeated in wrestling with recruits.
Emperor Maximinus I
It's unclear how Alexander was killed when he was assassinated. It is certain that the legionaries carried out and pushed Maximinus to the next emperor. It is not known if Maximinus was involved in the assassination of Alexander.
However, the history of Rome enters the military emperor era at this time.
Fearing the power of the military, the Senate approves Maximinus' inauguration as emperor. The Roman emperor becomes the Roman emperor only with the consent of the Senate. This area has been inherited by the relationship between the Prime Minister of modern Japan and the Diet.
Maximinus, who was neither born nor legitimate, tried to find his existence in the battle.
As soon as he became emperor, Maximinus began to fight the Germanic people. It was a fierce battle after the fierce battle, but Maximinus defeated the enemy greatly and started a good advance.
However, the Roman Senate did not seem to allow this Thracian man to become an emperor. The Senate is, so to speak, an elite class, and civilians who have learned from an early age. For those people, this Thracian man would have been only a half-barbarian.
Perhaps the governor of North Africa, Gortianus, had the same idea, and suddenly declared himself the true emperor, with the exception of Maximinus.
The declaration alone is a nickname, but the problem is that the Senate has approved the appointment of Gortianus as emperor. The confrontation between the Senate and the military, which had been apparent since the time of Emperor Septimius, finally ignited.
It was thought that there would be a war between Maximinus and Gortianus, but Gortianus was inadvertently defeated by the pro-Maximinus soldiers of the neighboring Government-General of Numiedia, and his son and his son died.
It was the Senate that was in a hurry, and the two humans, Barbinus and Babienus, were carried out as emperors in order to counter Maximinus. After all, the two were assassinated by the guards, and Maximinus himself was assassinated by his men and died.
It may be similar to Lu Bu in that he was betrayed by his subordinates.
The year 238 AD, when Maximinus died, was a non-flying year in which as many as five emperors died at the same time, and it was also the year when Rome advanced into the darkness of the military emperor era.
Maximinus is said to have doubled the salary of his soldiers to gain the support of his corps, but still failed to seize his men.
The Senate hated Maximinus because of the vulgarity of the document, which was sent as a report rather than his birth, and is also known to have severely cracked down on Christianity.
Looking at Maximinus Thrax, I think that Lu Bu and Xiang Yu couldn't take the world in China, and that the country wouldn't be cured just by being strong.