John (nephew of Vitalian)

John (Ioannes, fl. 537–553), the nephew of the rebel Vitalian, was an East Roman (Byzantine) general under Justinian I (r. 527–565), who was active in the Gothic War in Italy and against the Gepids in the western Balkans. He was married to Justina, the daughter of Justinian's cousin Germanus. "John the Sanguinary"

In fiction

John appears as a character in the time travel novel Lest Darkness Fall, by L. Sprague de Camp.

Sources
  • Bury, John Bagnell (1958). History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian, Volume 2. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc. ISBN 0-486-20399-9.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Martindale, John R., ed. (1992). The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume III, AD 527–641. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 652–661. ISBN 0-521-20160-8.
  • Hughes, Ian. (2009). Belisarius: The Last Roman General. Westholme Publishing
  • Heather, Peter. (2018). Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of Justinian. Oxford University Press
  • Hodgkin, Thomas. Italy and her invaders: imperial restoration. Forgotten Books
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