Berichus

Berichus or Berik^[1] (fl. 449) was a Hun nobleman, ambassador, and lord, said to have "ruled over many villages".^[2][3]

He was appointed by Attila as ruler over many towns. Priscus, in his account of his visit to the court of Attila, recounts that after his visit to the Huns, Berichus, looking for "gifts from Theodosius", left with them. Attila sent him with the Romans to Constantinople as an ambassador.^[4] During the travel, he had an argument with the Romans, because the Roman ambassador Maximinus insulted the former ambassadors of barbarian origin Aspar and Areobindus.^[5][6]

References

1. Kim, Hyun Jin (2013). The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe. Cambridge University Press. p. 94. ISBN 9781107067226. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
2. Maenchen-Helfen, Otto J. (2022). The World of the Huns Studies in Their History and Culture. University of California Press. p. 192. ISBN 9780520357204. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
3. Harvey, Bonnie (2013). Attila the Hun. ISBN 9781438148007. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
4. The Ancient World Volume 3. Ares Publishers. 1980. p. 26. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
5. Rohrbacher, David (2013). The Historians of Late Antiquity. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781134628841. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
6. Bleeker, Ronald A. (2022). Aspar and the Struggle for the Eastern Roman Empire, AD 421–71. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781350279285. Retrieved 26 October 2022.