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	Gordian III
		Marcus Antonius Gordianus' mother was the daughter of Gordian I and the sister of Gordian II.
		It was the public hostility towards the successors of the Gordian emperors which brought the thirteen year old boy to the attention of the Roman senate.
		Gordian III appointed him commander of the praetorian guard and further strengthened their bond by marrying Timesitheus' daughter Furia Sabina Tranquillina.
	www.roman-empire.net /decline/gordian-III.html (657 words)

	GordianIIIOV
		Gordian III 238 - 244 A.D. Marcus Antonius Gordianus (Gordian III) was born in Rome on the 20th of January 225.
		In late 240 or early 241, Gordian III broke free from the control and manipulation of the eunuchs and appointed Timesitheus as praetorian prefect.
		Philip, who was proclaimed Gordian III's successor by the army, reported to the senate that the 19-year-old emperor had died of natural causes.
	www.xs4all.nl /~sp88k/Coin/Traveler/Overviews/GordianIIIOV.htm (908 words)

	Gordian III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gordian was the son of Antonia Gordiana, daughter of Gordian I and sister of Gordian II.
		Following the murder of emperor Alexander Severus in Moguntiacum (modern Mainz), the capital of the Roman province Germania Inferior, Maximinus Thrax was acclaimed emperor, despite strong opposition of the Roman senate and the majority of the population.
		In 241, Gordian was married to Furia Sabina Tranquillina, daughter of the newly appointed praetorian prefect, Timesitheus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gordian_III (755 words)

	Gordian III
		Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius (224-244), grandson of the elder Gordian was raised to emperor (238 - 244) as a boy of thirteen following the death of his father and grandfather against Maximinus Thrax.
		For some time he was under the control of his mother's eunuchs, till Timesitheus[?], his father-in-law and praefect of the praetorian guard, persuaded him to assert his independence.
		The Persians were driven back over the Euphrates and defeated in the battle of Resaena[?] (243), and only the death of Timesitheus (under suspicious circumstances) prevented an advance into the enemy's territory.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/go/Gordian_III.html (186 words)

	Gordian III, Roman Imperial Coins of, at WildWinds.com
		Gordian III and Tranquillina Æ 25mm of Thrace, Anchialos.
		Gordian III AR Tetradrachm of Syria, Seleucis & Pieria, Antioch on the Orontes.
		Gordian III Æ 28mm of Carrhae in Mesopotamia.
	www.wildwinds.com /coins/ric/gordian_III/i.html (8268 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Gordian III
		Gordian I's 13-year-old grandson faced no hardships as a result of the revolt, because Vitalianus was assassinated by agents sent by Gordian I before the African uprising was revealed in Rome.
		Gordian III was a child emperor, but his reign was not perceived as having been burdened by the troubles faced by other young emperors (such as Nero, Commodus and Elagabalus).
		Gordian III's unlikely accession and seemingly stable reign reveal that child emperors, like modern-day constitutional monarchs, had their advantage: a distance from political decision-making and factionalism that enabled the emperor to be a symbol of unity for the various constituency groups (aristocrats, bureaucrats, soldiers, urban residents) in Roman society.
	www.roman-emperors.org /gordo3.htm (1963 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Gordian I
		The future emperor Gordian I was born around the year 159 and he came from a well-to-do family,[[1]] though there is no reliable evidence that the family belonged to the highest levels of the senatorial elite.
		Gordian II died in the ensuing battle; Carthage was captured; and the elder Gordian committed suicide, reportedly by hanging himself with his belt.
		Vivian Nutton, "Herodes and Gordian," Latomus 29 (1970), 719-728
	www.roman-emperors.org /gordo1.htm (1436 words)

	Gordian III
		The grandson of the respected Gordian I (and nephew of Gordian II), Gordian III was selected to restore peace following the deaths of all the contestants for power during that terrible year.
		Gordian III was killed and Philip I became Emperor.
		Gordian III denarii are the last decent silver examples of this denomination that are commonly available.
	dougsmith.ancients.info /feac53gor.html (916 words)

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		The memories of Gordian I and II were still fresh - both were held in very high esteem - and Gordian was thought to be descended from the Cornelii, one of the most illustrious families of the Republic.
		Gordian I, of course, was one of the wealthiest and most powerful men of the empire, owning not only Pompey’s famed house, but also holding more land in the provinces than any other Roman.
		Gordian, with the guidance and leadership of Timesitheus, made immense preparations for the expedition against the Persians, and in the year of Rome 995 (A.D.242) they left Rome with the core Legions and supplies.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/pcraddoc/dfgib/NOOTART.HTM (1992 words)

	Gordian. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Gordian I committed suicide, ending a reign of only 22 days, after learning that his son and colleague, Gordian II, 192–238, had been killed in battle.
		Balbinus and Pupienus defeated and killed Maximin but were soon murdered by the Praetorian Guard, whereupon Gordian III became emperor (238–44).
		In 242, Gordian attacked the Persians in Mesopotamia.
	www.bartleby.com /65/go/Gordian.html (221 words)

	Roman Provincial Bronzes of Gordian III (Ancient Coins of Miletos)
		Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius Felix Augustus, known as Gordian III, was born at Rome in AD 225.
		Gordian III took the throne in 238 at the age of thirteen, and reigned until he was murdered by Philip the Arab, who succeeded him, in 244.
		Sabinia Tranquillina, wife of Gordian III, whose Roman coinage is of the greatest rarity, was honoured by more than seventy mints in the Greek Imperial series—yet another numismatic enigma of this reign.
	rjohara.net /coins/roman-gordian-bronze (652 words)

	Gordian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Being only 19 years of age, Gordian was influenced heavily by his household acquaintances.
		When Gordian entered Antioch at the head of a large army, the Persians immediately retreated.
		Thus the eastern armies opted for a new commander and the tragic cycle continued as young Gordian was killed.
	library.thinkquest.org /26907/emperors/gordian.htm (72 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.02.13
		Gordian III died in late January or early February of 244, when the Roman army was on campaign in Mesopotamia against the Sassanian ruler Shapur.
		Philip, one of Gordian's praetorian prefects, is often blamed for the emperor's death, which in these versions is said to have occurred at the hands of the soldiers.
		Körner suggests that Gordian III was murdered at Misiche in a plot hatched by Philip and that the murder took place before the battle.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2003/2003-02-13.html (1239 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Gordian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Although he was defeated by the Roman emperor, Gordian III, in 242, he halted Gordian's advance at Misiche in 244.
		He served under Gordian III against the Persians, instigated the assassination of the emperor, and concluded a peace with Persia.
		Gordian Health Solutions' Client Worthington Industries' 'Healthy Choices' Uses Carrot Instead of Stick Approach to Improve Employee Health and Lower Employer Costs.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Gordian (556 words)

	Legio III Augusta
		Legio III Augusta: one of the Roman legions.
		The emperor Caligula (37-41) thought that this policy was risky, and saw to it that the commander of III Augusta was one of his appointees.
		This suggests that III Augusta played a role in the civil war after the murder of the emperor Publius Helvius Pertinax, but we have no further evidence for this.
	www.livius.org /le-lh/legio/iii_augusta.html (1138 words)

	The Decline
		Gordian II The murder of Alexander Severus was certainly the work of Maximinus, a giant of a Thracian peasant who had risen through the ranks to become commander of the imperial guard.
		Gordian III was murdered in Mesopotamia in AD 244 as a result of Philippus' plotting while collecting wild animals to take part in his triumphal procession in Rome for his victories in Persia.
		Had he achieved his position by treachery against Gordian III, whom he reported to the senate as having died of illness, he possessed little moral authority with which to command the loyalty of the troops.
	www.roman-empire.net /decline/decline.html (7626 words)

	gordian
		Marcus Antonius Gordianus, grandson of the first Gordian and nephew of the second, was thirteen when he was made Caesar by the Senate as junior colleague with Balbinus and Pupienus.
		In 241 Gordian acquired three things: first, an unusually loyal and competent praetorian prefect, Gaius Furius Sabinus Aquila Timistheus, who had risen through the ranks; second, a wife in the form of this prefect's daughter, and third, a war with the greatest of Sasanian kings, Shapur I.
		GORDIAN III A.D. 238-244: AR antoninianus.Obv: IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG.Rev: AEQVITAS AVG.
	romancoins.tripod.com /gordian.html (540 words)

	The Imperial Roman Legions: III
		In +40, the Emperor Caligula removed Legio III Augusta from the direct control of the Proconsul (the previous situation of the governor of a Senatorial Province being also military commander was an anomalous one).
		Legio III Augusta was thrust into the field of Imperial politics in April 68, when Lucius Clodius Macer, the legion's legate renounced his allegiance to Nero.
		Geographically isolated as it was, Legio III Augusta had relatively little impact upon the various rebellions and contests for the throne during the late second century.
	members.tripod.com /~HAuburn/LegIII.html (2585 words)

	Hadrianopolis BMC 54 of Gordian III
		Gordian III Æ 25mm of Hadrianopolis in Thrace.
		Gordian III was the grandson of Gordian I and nephew of Gordian II, and was in Rome when Balbinus and Pupienus were murdered in 238 AD.
		After serving briefly as Caesar, then, he was raised to Augustus and served until 244 AD when he was murdered at the instigation of Philip the Arab.
	www.wildwinds.com /aca/ric/gordian_III/_hadrianopolis_BMC_54.html (721 words)

	(117) Gordianus III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		His reign was marked by war on the northern frontier and in Africa and in the East by a Persian invasion.
		Gordian and Timesitheus went to meet the threat in the East and pushed on to Mesopotamia, where Timesitheus died suddenly.
		Gordian's coin portraits assume the short-haired military type typical of this period of soldier-emperors, but it does nothing to disguise the youthfulness of his beardless, unlined face.
	www.lawrence.edu /dept/art/buerger/catalogue/117.html (259 words)

	Chaos AD 236 - 268, Ancient Roman coins - Calgary Coin Gallery
		Gordian's silver coinage issued as Augustus are probably the most common of all Roman silver coins, however his issues as Caesar are rare.
		Most of the coin issued by Gordian seem to fall into a logical sequence of events, so we have chosen to arrange them here in chronological order under the events they are associated with.
		In AD 241 Gordian III married Tranquilina, who was the daughter of the new Praetorian Prefect, Timesitheus.
	www.calgarycoin.com /roman6.htm (714 words)

	Gordian III - NumisWiki, The Collaborative Numismatics Project
		In the year of Rome 991 (A.D. 238), the youngest Gordian, who was at Rome when the two African Gordians were massacred, was named Prince of the Youth by the Senate.
		Gordian was assassinated at Zeila, on the Euphrates, in the month of February, in the 22nd year of his age, after he had reigned about six years.
		Before his accession to the empire, the youngest Gordian is styled M. (the head bare) A. The same year, ascending the throne on the death of Balbinus and Pupienus, his coins exhibit the titles of IMP.
	www.forumancientcoins.com /numiswiki/view.asp?key=Gordian+III (1326 words)

	Gordian III (A.D. 238-244)
		Gordian III (A.D. Antonius Gordianus was the grandson of Gordian I and the nephew of Gordian II.
		Little is known about his reign; one of the few recorded events was a rebellion in Africa, promptly suppressed, in A.D. In A.D. 242 Gordian went east to direct the Persian campaign in person, and his first actions were so successful that the enemy were compelled to evacuate Mesopotamia.
		But due to treachery on the part of M. Julius Philippus, the praetorian prefect, the loyalty of his troops was undermined and Gordian was deposed and murdered near Circesium in Mesopotamia.
	www.parthia.com /rome_gordian3.htm (220 words)

	1.2.2.4.2 Gordians
		Gordian asked the Senate for recognition, which was granted, but when Capellinus, governor of Numidia, heard of the revolt he invaded with the Third Legion and quickly shattered the Gordian forces; Gordian Jr.
		To win popular favor, Gordian's grandson was made Caesar, but the people and the army resented the senator emperors.
		Gordian campaigned against the Persians, and after Timisethius died on campaign, his successor Philip the Arab undermined Gordian and overthrew him.
	www.classicalcoins.com /page48.html (391 words)

	Stoa Image Gallery :: Gordian III, 238 - 244 A.D.
		RIC IV, iii 129A, RSC 325, SR 8681, VM 74.
		Gordian III, AE As Mint of Rome, 241-243 A.D. 24mm, 9.09gm, die axis: 12:00
		Gordian III, AE As Mint of Rome, 241-243 A.D. 24mm, 8.62gm, die axis: 1:00
	www.stoa.org /gallery/album100 (482 words)

	Anarchy and Crisis Coins for sale [Part 2]:EROL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Gordian had some success against the Danubian tribes and Persians but he could not rely on the support of the army after Timesitheus died of illness in 243.
		Gordian was killed in battle while fighting the Persians near the Euphrates in 244.
		Gordian III (A.D. Marcus Antonius Gordianus' mother was the daughter of Gordian I and the sister of Gordian II.
	www.time-line.co.uk /x7560.html (366 words)

	Gordian III
		Gordian III as Caesar, AR Denarius, April-June 238, Rome
		RIC IV, Part III, 308a (C) Note: After a great deal of comparative research and debate with a Gordian specialist, although this specimen appears to me to be an AE as based on weight and flan style, I am conceding and reclassifying this coin as a sestertius.
		Note: The G in Gordian's name appears to be a deliberate C as compared to the other Cs and Gs on the obverse and reverse.
	www.beastcoins.com /RomanImperial/IV-III/GordianIII/GordianIII.htm (4999 words)

	Maximinus Thrax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The senate in Rome switched allegiance, gave both Gordian and Gordian II the title of Augustus, and set about rousing the provinces in support of the pair.
		Gordian II was killed in the fighting and, on hearing this, Gordian I hanged himself with his belt.
		Gordian I, Gordian II, Pupienus and Balbinus, Gordian III (all 238)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maximinus_Thrax (910 words)

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