Mallobaudes was a 4th-century Frankish king, who also held the Roman title of comes domesticorum.
In 354 he was a tribunus armaturarum in the Roman army in Gaul, where he served under Silvanus who usurped power in 355. Malobaudes tried unsuccessfully to intervene on his behalf. Appointed by Gratian comes domesticorum, he was second in command of the army in Gaul in 378, when he defeated the Alemannic tribes under King Priarius at Argentorate. In 380 he killed Macrian, king of the Bucinobantes and Roman ally, who had invaded Frankish territory.
Sources
- Herwig Wolfram, The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples, University of California Press 1997, ISBN 0520085116, pp.65ff.
- Thomas F. X. Noble, From Roman Provinces To Medieval Kingdoms, Routledge 2006, ISBN 0415327415, pp.115ff.
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