Roman Emperor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorian" id="mwEQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Majorian">Majorian</a> is beheaded near the river <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffora" id="mwEg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Staffora">Iria</a> in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the <i id="mwEw">magister militum</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricimer" id="mwFA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ricimer">Ricimer</a>.<sup about="#mwt15" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_7#cite_note-1" id="mwFQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwFg">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1">John of Antioch, <i id="mwBqo">Historia chronike</i>, fragment 203; Marcellinus, <i id="mwBqs">sa</i> 461; <i id="mwBqw"><a class="mw-redirect" href="./Fasti_vindobonenses_priores" id="mwBq0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fasti vindobonenses priores">Fasti vindobonenses priores</a></i>, No 588. <a href="./Procopius" id="mwBq4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Procopius">Procopius</a> (VII.14–15) does not mention the Emperor's return from Hispania and said that Majorian died of <a href="./Dysentery" id="mwBq8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dysentery">dysentery</a>: it is possible that the news has been put about by <a href="./Ricimer" id="mwBrA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ricimer">Ricimer</a> (Fik Meijer, <i id="mwBrE">Emperors Do not Die in Bed</i>, Routledge, 2004, <a about="#mwt12" class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBrM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span about="#mwt12" id="mwBrQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a about="#mwt12" href="./Special:BookSources/0-415-31201-9" id="mwBrU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/0-415-31201-9">0-415-31201-9</a>, p. 155). <a class="mw-redirect" href="./Victor_of_Tonnena" id="mwBrY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Victor of Tonnena">Victor of Tonnena</a> erroneously claims that Majorian reached Rome and was killed there, and puts this event in 463 (<i id="mwBrc">Chronica</i>, <i id="mwBrg">s.a.</i> 463).</span>