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Lampridia. Gaius Pescennius Niger (c. 135 – 194) was a Roman usurper from 193 to 194 during the Year of the Five Emperors. He claimed the imperial throne in response to the murder of Pertinax and the elevation of Didius Julianus, but was defeated by a rival claimant, Septimius Severus, and killed while attempting to flee from Antioch.
Pescennius Niger (died 194) was a rival Roman emperor from 193 to 194. An equestrian army officer from Italy, Niger was promoted to senatorial rank about 180. Most of his earlier service had been in the eastern provinces, but in 185–186 he commanded an expeditionary force against deserters who had seized control of a number of cities in southern Gaul .
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DIR Atlas. Pescennius Niger (193-194 A.D.) Michael L. Meckler Ohio State University. Gaius Pescennius Niger was governor of Syria in the year 193 when he learned of the emperor Pertinax's murder. Niger's subsequent attempt to claim the empire for himself ended in failure in Syria after roughly one year.
Gaius Pescennius Niger was born into an Italian equestrian family in about AD 135. Made a senator by Commodus, he campaigned against the Sarmatians in Dacia in AD 183, alongside Clodius Albinus. He performed well and was rewarded with the consulship. In AD 190 he was made governor of Syria.
Lucius Pescennius Niger. Lucius Pescennius Niger (c.140-194): Roman general, emperor for a short while in 193-194. Lucius (or Gaius) Pescennius Niger was born in Aquinum, a modest provincial town in Italy, between 135 and 140. He was the son of a Roman knight named Annius Fuscus and his wife Lampridia. These were the years of the emperor ...
Sep 29, 2018 · GAIUS PESCENNIUS NIGER, governor of Syria under the emperor Commodus. Ori the death of Pertinax (A.D. 193), he was saluted emperor by the troops at Antioch, but unaccountably delayed marching on Rome until he learned that Septimius Severus, one of the rival claimants, had assumed the offensive.
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Gaius or Gaius Pescenio Niger (in Latin: Gaius Pescennius Niger; Aquino, 135/140-Antioch, 194) was a pretender to the throne of the Roman Empire from mid-April 193 to the end of March 194. At his death he became the third emperor to die from the era of civil wars that ravaged the Empire from the death of Commodus to that of Clodius Albinus, known as the "year of the five emperors".
