Roman Empire Johannes

What is known of Johannes is that on the death of Honorius on 15 August 423, he was a high ranking official, a primicerius notariorum, and therefore occupied a position of great influence as head of the palace bureaucracy in Ravenna. An interregum of several months followed Honorius' death during which the eastern Emperor Theodosius II hesitated in announcing the death of his uncle, and was therefore technically the ruler of the entire Empire. On 20 November the situation dramatically changed when Honorius' patrcian Castinus proclaimed Johannes emperor of the West.

Although Procopius of Caesarea praised him as both gentle and well-endowed with sagacity and thoroughly capable of valorous deeds, his control over...

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