# Magnus Maximus is captured and executed after Aquileia in 388

Date: 388

## The fact

DIR and Britannica independently record Maximus’s death after defeat.

It is one event.

## Context

Killing a captured rival emperor is a judicial-process harm heading. Clemency stories after Frigidus are later and different. Shared officers remain.

[Theodosius I](/people/theodosius-i)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Received date cluster is late August 388. Extra-judicial or summary killing of a defeated Augustus is the heading. Not a modern treason trial transcript. Valentinian’s restoration is a different instrument.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

De Imperatoribus Romanis — Theodosius I and Britannica — Theodosius I independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: De Imperatoribus Romanis — Theodosius I (https://roman-emperors.sites.luc.edu/theo1.htm; Loyola University Chicago).

## Significance

## What is established and what is not

Established as a sourced public record of this instrument at the date assigned here.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Theodosius I.

They are not a public rating.

Theodosius I did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not treat Aquileia as a court with a surviving verdict tablet in this catalog. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Theodosius I.
Theodosius I did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not treat Aquileia as a court with a surviving verdict tablet in this catalog. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Theodosius I.

## People

- Theodosius I: https://factrail.ai/people/theodosius-i

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://roman-emperors.sites.luc.edu/theo1.htm
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodosius-I

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/theo-maximus-executed-388