Maximus of Hispania

Maximus
Usurper of the Western Roman Empire
Siliqua of Maximus
Reign409 - 417 (in Hispania only, in competition with Constantine III and Honorius);
? 419-21 (may or may not be same figure)
PredecessorConstantine III
SuccessorHonorius
Died422?
Rome?
Regnal name
Imperator Caesar Maximus Augustus
FatherGerontius?

Maximus was a Roman usurper (409–411) in Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, modern Spain and Portugal). He was declared emperor by the general Gerontius, who might have been his father.

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