Aspar

For the village in Iran, see Aspar, Iran. For the Grand Prix motorcycle racing team, see Aspar Team. For the Roman spy of the 1st century CE, see Aspar (Numidian).
Detail of a dish depicting Aspar and his elder son Ardabur (c. 434).

Flavius Ardabur Aspar (Greek: Ἄσπαρ, fl. 400 – 471) was an Eastern Roman patrician and magister militum ("master of soldiers") of Alanic-Gothic descent.[1] As the general of a Germanic army in Roman service,[2][3][4][5] Aspar exerted great influence on the Eastern Roman Emperors for half a century, from the 420s to his death in 471, through the reigns of Theodosius II, Marcian and Leo I, who, in the end, had him killed. His death led to the ending of the Germanic domination of Eastern Roman policy.[2]

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