Bonosus (usurper)
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Bonosus (died AD 280)<ref name="hazel">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="clinton">Template:Cite book</ref> was a late 3rd-century Roman usurper. He was born in Hispania (Roman Spain) to a British father and Gallic mother. His father—a rhetorician and "teacher of letters"—died when Bonosus was still young but the boy's mother gave him a decent education.<ref name=pene>Template:Cite web</ref> He had a distinguished military career with an excellent service record. He rose successively through the ranks and tribuneships but, while he was stationed in charge of the Rhenish fleet Template:Circa, the Germans managed to set it on fire.<ref name="Burckhardt1983">Template:Cite book</ref> Fearful of the consequences, he proclaimed himself Roman emperor at Colonia Agrippina (Cologne) jointly with Proculus. After a protracted struggle, he was defeated by Marcus Aurelius Probus and hanged himself rather than face capture.
Bonosus left behind a wife and two sons who were treated with honor by Probus.<ref name=pene/>
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- 280 deaths
- 3rd-century Roman usurpers
- Ancient Roman generals
- Crisis of the Third Century
- Ancient Roman military personnel who died by suicide
- Suicides by hanging in Germany
- Ancient Roman admirals
- Suicides in Ancient Rome
- Romans from Hispania
- Year of birth unknown
- Ancient Romans from unknown gentes
- Generals of Probus
- Male suicides