About Mauricius
Mauricius was a military leader.
Mauricius (; born before 520–536) was a Gepid general fighting for the Byzantine Empire. He was the son of Magister militium Mundus. He was presumably an MVM vacans. He was a strategos, a military general, in the Byzantine Empire. In 529, he went to Constantinople with his father, where he received gifts from the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I.
In 532 he fought in the Nika riots on the side of the Byzantines. In January of that year he commanded his troops in the hippodrome massacre, which ended the riots.
Legacy His son Theudimund was part of the barbarian military aristocracy, and fought the Ostrogoths in the Battle of Treviso in 540.
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