Everything about Richomeres totally explained
Flavius Richomeres (Richomer) was a
Frank who lived in the late 4th century. He took service in the Roman army and made a career as
comes,
magister militum, and
consul. He was married with Ascyla and they'd a son
Theudemeres, who became king of the Franks. He was uncle of
Arbogastes.
Around the years
377 -
378 Richomeres was Comes Domesticorum of Emperor
Gratian and was transferred from
Gaul to
Thracia, where he was involved in the Gothic wars of Emperor
Valens. At
Adrianopole he tried to persuade Valens to wait on Gratian for support.
When the Gothic leader
Fritigern demanded hostages to secure peace from the Romans he volunteered and departed the Roman camp to bring the other hostages safely to Fritigern, but before he arrived some divisions of the two armies got out of control and engaged, starting the famous
Battle of Adrianople. Richomeres ended up at a battlefield in complete chaos but he saved himself by withdrawing and survived. However the Roman army of Valens was largely destroyed and many officers fell including emperor Valens.
Around
383 he was general in the east (magister militum per orientum) and became consul in
384
In
388 Theodosius I sent him together with his nephew Arbogastes and Promotus and Timasius against
Magnus Maximus, who was defeated.
From the year
388 he served as supreme commander in the Eastern Empire (comes et magister utriusque militiae) until his death in
393. Richomeres was interested in literature and was acquainted with rethoricians as
Libanius and
Augustinus. He introduced the rethorician
Eugenius to his nephew Arbogastes. A few years later Arbogastes seized power in the West Roman Empire. After the death of
Valentinian II Arbogastes promoted Eugenius to be his Emperor, while he himself remained the leader and generalissimo.
In 393 Theodosius I organised a campaign against Arbogastes and Richomeres was asked to lead the cavalry against his nephew. On the way from the East to the West he died before the battle took place. Arbogastes lost the battle and committed suicide with his own sword.
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