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Magnus Maximus (Flavius Magnus Maximus Augustus[a], Welsh: Macsen Wledig[b]) (c.?335–28 August 388) was Roman Emperor in the western portion of the Empire from 383 to 388. He usurped the throne from emperor Gratian in 383, through negotiation with emperor Theodosius I. He was made emperor in Britannia and Gaul the next year while Gratian's brother Valentinian II retained Italy, Pannonia, Hispania, and Africa. In 387, Maximus's ambitions led him to invade Italy, resulting in his defeat by Theodosius I at the Battle of the Save in 388. In the view of some historians, his death marked the end of direct imperial presence in Northern Gaul and Britain. Maximus was born c.?335 in Gallaecia, on the estates of Count Theodosius (the Elder), to whom he claimed to be related. Maximus was the son of the general Flavius Julius Eucherius and the brother of Marcellinus. Near contemporaries described his dignity as offended when lesser men were promoted to high positions. Maximus was a distinguished general; he served under Count Theodosius in Africa in 373, and on the Danube in 376, where his behaviour was however described as greedy and reckless. It is likely he was a junior officer in Britain in 368, during the quelling of the Great Conspiracy. Assigned to Britain in 380, he defeated an incursion of the Picts and Scots in 381. The Western emperor Gratian had become unpopular because of perceived favouritism toward Alans—an Iranian speaking people (see also Sarmatians and Ossetians) who were early adopters of Christianity and migrated both east and west from their homeland—over Roman citizens.