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'''Flavius Ardabur Aspar''' (''c.'' [[400]] - [[471]]), an [[Alans|Alan]], was [[patrician]] and [[magister militum]] ("Master of soldiers") of the [[Eastern Roman Empire]].
Son of the magister [[Ardaburius]]<ref>Williams, p. 45.</ref>, Aspar played a crucial role in his father's expedition in [[424]] to defeat the western [[roman usurper|usurper]], [[Joannes]] of [[Ravenna]], and to install [[Galla Placidia]] and her son, [[Valentinian III]], in his place. He also helped to negotiate a peace treaty with [[Geiseric]] after the [[Vandal]] invasion of [[Africa Province|Africa]].
Aspar attained the [[Roman consul|consul]]ship in 434 after campaigning in Africa.<ref name="bunson 38"/> However, Aspar could not become [[Roman Emperor|emperor]] because of his [[Arianism|Arian]] religion. Instead, he played the role of kingmaker with his subordinate, [[Marcian]], who became emperor by marrying [[Theodosius II]]'s sister [[Pulcheria]]. However, Marcian's successor [[Leo I (emperor)|Leo I]] eventually turned on him. In [[471]] Aspar was killed together with his son [[Ardabur]] in an assault by palace eunuchs. This came about because Ardabur attempted to bribe Leo's soldiers, the Isaurian [[Excubitors]], with no success, and Leo viewed both son and father with suspicion.
Aspar was the teacher of [[Theodoric the Great]], who later became [[Monarch|king]] of the [[Ostrogoths]]. Aspar had another son, [[Ermanaric]], with the sister of [[Theodoric Strabo]].<ref>Wolfram, p. 32.</ref> Aspar's wife was an Ostrogoth, as the Ostrogoth King Theodoric was her nephew.<ref name="bunson 38">Bunson, 38.</ref> A cistern attributed to him still exists today in [[Istanbul]].
==Notes==
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==References==
*Bunson, Matthew (1994). ''Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire''. New York: Facts on File Inc.
*Williams, Stephen, and Gerard Friell, ''The Rome That Did Not Fall'', Routledge, 1999, ISBN 0415154030.
*Wolfram, Herwig, ''History of the Goths'', trans. Thomas J. Dunlap. University of California Press, 1988, ISBN 0520069838.
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{{s-aft | after=[[Theodosius II|Imp. Caesar Flavius Theodosius Augustus]] XV,<br /> [[Valentinianus III|Imp. Caesar Flavius Placidus Valentinianus Augustus]] IV }}
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==External links==
*[http://books.google.gr/books?id=QCIaBQTCg0IC&pg=PA167&lpg=PA167&dq=%22Aspar%22+%22Prosopography%22&source=web&ots=5PKdlj2Er3&sig=PIwNefzQzoCPkCKJfiLR6FZEZfk&hl=el#PPA164,M1- - Profile of Aspar in the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire]
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