Magister militum (Latin for "master of soldiers"; pl.: magistri militum) was a top-level military command used in the late Roman Empire, dating from the...

In 531, he replaced Belisarius as magister militum per Orientem before re-assuming his rank of Magister militum per Illyricum again in 532. In that...

practice for both magistri militum praesentales to be equal but in the West it had become common for one magister, (usually the magister peditum), to be superior...

Empire in the Gothic War. At this point Bauto was probably already a magister militum, and Arbogast was some kind of deputy commander, although we do not...

in Africa as its governor general, combining the military post of magister militum with the civil position of praetorian prefect. Solomon successfully...

his troops, lifted the block on the mountain passes, and retired. As magister militum per Thracias, Emperor Theodosius I, who had succeeded Valens after...

late 587 or early 588, to command in the East against the Persians as magister militum per Orientem, replacing Philippicus. He only reached the East in spring...

northeastern sector of the Empire's frontier with Sassanid Persia (magister militum per Armeniam). From this post, he supported the outbreak of the Iberian...

Salian Frank of Laetic origin. He was the first ever Frank to be made magister militum, in 324. He fought beside Constantine against Licinius and was the...

son-in-law of the powerful Bonifacius, comes Africae in 420s, nominated magister militum praesentalis and patrician by the Empress Galla Placidia in 432. The...