Albinus - A History of the Roman Empire

Claudius albinus had been born in africa and was the son of a wealthy senatorial family. He earned the cognomen albina shortly after his birth when his father commented on the boy's unusually pale skin. As a young man, he quickly established a reputation as an excellent soldier. In early one 92, a believable rumor reached his headquarters in britain that commodus was dead. After caricala was elevated in albinus place, saverus was exposed as a ruthless tyrant who was not to be trusted nor followed. The force saverus mustered to face down his last rival was roughly equal to that of albinus army.