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-[[Gaius Pescennius Niger Augustus]] (135/140 – 194 CE) ruled between 193 and 194 CE in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.
-====Overview====
-[[Pescennius Niger]] was proclaimed Emperor in 193 CE by the legions under his command in Syria, who refused to acknowledge [[Didius Julianus]]. The following year in 194 CE, he was killed after his army unsuccessfully clashed with that of [[Septimius Severus]], while attempting to flee from [[Antioch]].
-====Early Career====
-[[Pescennius Niger]] was born between 135 and 140 CE, in [[Italy]]. He was a member of an equestrian family. It seems that his [[cursus honorum]] began with an administrative position in [[Egypt]], and afterwards, at the beginning of the reign of [[Commodus]], he served in [[Dacia]]. Because of his merits, he was enrolled in the Senatorial order. Thus, he was then appointed consul suffectus and in 191 CE, imperial legate in [[Syria]].
-====Imperial Succession====
-At the accession of [[Didius Julianus]] to the throne, in 193 CE, various demonstrations broke out in Rome, calling [[Pescennius Niger]] to the Imperial purple. The result was that [[Pescennius Niger]] was proclaimed Emperor by the Eastern legions in 193 CE as [[Gaius Pescennius Niger Justus Augustus]]. Once [[Septimius Severus]] marched in Rome and had [[Didius Julianus]] deposed by the [[Senate]] and then executed, he ordered the Praetorian Praefect [[Gaius Fulvius Plautianus]] to held as hostages the children of [[Pescennius Niger]]. The latter secured the support of all the governors of the Eastern provinces, including [[Asellius Aemilianus]], the proconsul of [[Asia]]. However [[Septimius Severus]] when he marched against him could count on the support of no less than the sixteen legions stationed on the [[Danube]], while [[Pescennius Niger]] had only six legions at his disposal, three in the province of [[Syria]], two in the province of [[Arabia Petrea]], and one located at [[Melitene]]. [[Pescennius Niger]] was able enough to defeat [[Lucius Fabius Cilo]], who commanded part of [[Septimius Severus]]’army, at [[Perinthus]]. The main army of [[Septimius Severus]] was preceded by a smaller vanguard under the command of [[Tiberius Claudius Candidus]], who defeated the army commanded by [[Asellius Aemilianus]] in the battle of [[Cyzicus]]. The army of [[Septimius Severus]] put [[Byzantium]] under siege, and [[Pescennius Niger]] had to retire to [[Nicaea]], where in a pitched battle [[Pescennius Niger]] was defeated. [[Pescennius Niger]] was successful enough to retire with most of his army to [[Antioch]]. However support for his cause was by now fading. Various cities as [[Laodicaea]] and [[Tyre]] as well as the prefect of [[Egypt]] and the legate in [[Arabia]] switched their allegiance to [[Septimius Severus]]. In the spring of 194 CE, [[Pescennius Niger]] was defeated definitely by [[Cornelius Anullinus]], a general of [[Septimius Severus]] at the battle of [[Issus]]. While attempting to flee from [[Antioch]] to [[Parthia]], [[Pescennius Niger]] was captured and beheaded. However the resistance of the East to [[Septimius Severus]] ceased only in 195 CE, with the surrender of [[Byzantium]].
-== [[Pescennius Niger]] in ancient sources==
-== [[Pescennius Niger]] in Scholarship==
-== [[Pescennius Niger]] in Fiction==
-==Related categories==
-*[[Roman Emperors]] / [[Pescennius Niger]]
-==External links==
-*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/  Pescennius Niger Wikipedia]
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