Flavius Sigisvultus (

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

427–448) was a general of the late Western Roman Empire. He was sent in 427 to command the war in Africa against a rebellious general,

Bonifacius Bonifatius (or Bonifacius; also known as Count Boniface; died 432) was a Roman general and governor of the diocese of Africa. He campaigned against the Visigoths in Gaul and the Vandals in North Africa. An ally of Galla Placidia, mother and adv ...

. Previous generals had been defeated by the latter. Sigisvultus may have been appointed '' comes Africae'', succeeding Bonifacius. He seized Hippo and Carthage, and as an

Arian Arianism ( grc-x-koine, Ἀρειανισμός, ) is a Christological doctrine first attributed to Arius (), a Christian presbyter from Alexandria, Egypt. Arian theology holds that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who was begotten by God t ...

himself, sent an Arian bishop, Maximinus, to dispute with

Augustine of Hippo Augustine of Hippo ( , ; la, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Af ...

in 427 or 428. He presumably returned to Italy after relations between the Emperor and Bonifacius were restored in 429 or 430. He served as consul in 437 with Flavius Aetius. From either the same year or from 440 until 448, he was '' magister utriusque militiae'' (though despite the title he remained under the command of Aetius), and organized defences against the Vandals. By 448 he had become a patrician. The name ''Sigisvultus'' is of German origin, and is also written ''Sigisvult'', ''Segisvultus'', or ''Sigisvuldus''. He is also sometimes called ''Sigisvult the Goth''.

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