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Frumar (or Frumarius) (died 464) was a Suevic warlord who succeeded Maldras (who was assassinated in February 460), as leader of the Suevic group then raiding Lusitania. He probably competed with Rechimund, the Suevic war leader in Gallaecia, for the throne until his death.

In 460, by the action of two Roman nobles, Ospinio and Ascanius, the Visigothic army harassing Frumar's Sueves was caused to retreat. Later that same year Frumar ravaged the town of Aquae Flaviae with the complicity of the Romans. He captured the bishop and chronicler Hydatius, holding him prisoner for three months before releasing, against the pleas of Ospinio and Ascanius. The Hispano-Roman nobility of western Iberia was becoming accommodated to Suevic rule.

Sources

• Thompson, E. A. (1982). Romans and Barbarians: The Decline of the Western Empire. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-08700-X.

Notes

1. ^ Thompson, 167. Hydatius wrote: Inter Frumarium et Rechimundum oritur de regni potestate dissensio ("Between Frumar and Rechimund arose a dissension of the power of the kingdom").
2. ^ Thompson, 181.
3. Thompson, 171.

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Suebian kings	Hermeric Rechila Rechiar Aioulf Maldras Framta Richimund Frumar Remismund Hermeneric Veremund Theodemund Chararic Ariamir Theodemar Miro Eboric Audeca Malaric
Astur-Leonese dynasty	Ordoño II Sancho I Bermudo II Alfonso V Bermudo III
House of Jiménez	García II Sancho II Alfonso VI Urraca
House of Burgundy	Alfonso VII Ferdinand II Alfonso IX Sancha & Dulce Ferdinand III Alfonso X Sancho IV Prince John Ferdinand IV Alfonso XI Peter
Portuguese House of Burgundy	Ferdinand I of Portugal
House of Lancaster	John of Gaunt
House of Trastámara	Henry II John I Henry III John II Henry IV Isabella I & Ferdinand V Joanna & Philip I
House of Habsburg	Charles I

• Early Germanic warriors
• Suebian people
• 464 deaths
• 5th-century Germanic people