Aegidius, a Rogue General, Refused to Take Orders From Italy

When majorian died, marcelinus was in sicily. He had been n place there to help run one arm of majorian's planned invasion of north africa. But when he found out that the emperor was dead, he booked it back to his home territory double time. So like his colleague agidius, up in gaul,marcelinus simply stopped taking orders from italy. Rather than declaring defacto independence, marcelins wrote to leo in constantinople and said, hey, this guy richemer just overthrew the guy you yourself recognized to be the lawful emperor. I'm not going to follow him any more, but i'd