Flavius Bauto
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Flavius Bauto (d. about AD 385)
A Romanized Frank, Bauto served as magister militum to the Western Empire. When the usurper Magnus Maximus invaded Italy in an attempt to replace Valentinian II, Bauto led the forces of the Eastern Emperor Theodosius I and defeated the rebel. He died soon after, likely of natural causes. His daughter, Aelia Eudoxia married Emperor Arcadius in 395, becoming one of the more powerful empresses of Late Antiquity.