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Name:  Clodius Albinus
Brief biography:  Roman imperial claimant in 193 and 196-7.
Nationality:  Roman
Occupation:  General
Date of birth:  150
Place of birth:  Sousse
Period of rule:  193 and 196-7
Date of death:  197
Place of death:  Lyons

Clodius Albinus was a clamant to the imperial throne in the aftermath of the successive assassinations of Commodus, Pertinax, and Didius Julianus, in opposition to Septimius Severus and Pescennius Niger, during the year known as 'the year of the five emperors'. Though initially allied with Severus and called his Caesar, Severus turned on Albinus after the defeat of Niger and destruction of Byzantium. Albinus's defence was unsuccessful, and he was either murdered or commited suicide in 197.

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