Aelianus or Aelian was together with Amandus the leader of an insurrection of Gallic peasants, called

Bagaudae Bagaudae (also spelled bacaudae) were groups of peasant insurgents in the later Roman Empire who arose during the Crisis of the Third Century, and persisted until the very end of the Western Empire, particularly in the less-Romanised areas of G ...

, in the reign of

Diocletian Diocletian (; la, Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, grc, Διοκλητιανός, Diokletianós; c. 242/245 – 311/312), nicknamed ''Iovius'', was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305. He was born Gaius Valerius Diocles ...

. It was put down by the Caesar Maximianus Herculius in 285. The rebellion he led with Amandus in 285 was attributed by some to Christianity, but

Edward Gibbon Edward Gibbon (; 8 May 173716 January 1794) was an English historian, writer, and member of parliament. His most important work, '' The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'', published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788, i ...

doubts this in ''The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire''.Gibbon, Edward. A History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Christian Classics Ethereal Library. https://www.ccel.org/g/gibbon/decline/volume1/chap13.htm.

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* 3rd-century Gallo-Roman people 3rd-century Roman usurpers 280s deaths Year of birth unknown Tetrarchy {{AncientRome-bio-stub