Aegidius

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For the Christian Saint Aegidius, of the 7th-8th century, see Saint Giles, and for the 13th century archbishop and theologist, see Giles of Rome.

Aegidius (unknown - 464) was the magister militum per Gallias during the reign of the Roman emperor Majorian. In the chaos of Gaul in the middle of the fifth century he rebelled against Ricimer and preserved a Gallo-Roman rump state in the region surrounding Soissons. There is a tradition, dating from Gildas, that the Britons, having been deprived of Roman military protection after 410, wrote to a "Roman commander Agitus", who may be Aegidius, or possibly Aëtius. Aegidius was allied with Childeric I and on his death, which occurred in uncertain circumstances, was succeeded by his son Syagrius.

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