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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2666605, member: 76194&quot;]Wrong, Trajan Decius was not the first emperor to die in battle...He is the first we can confirm died in actual battle, though plenty of Emperors were murdered by their own troops while doing a siege or shortly before/after battle. For all we know, some may have been killed during the battle by their own disgruntled soldiers, except the sources&nbsp; are a little vague as to the exact moment of death to say for sure one way or the other...Ie. Maximinus Thrax.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gordian III almost certainly died in battle. Although some unreliable Roman sources say Philip I killed him, we know of no persecution of Gordian III&#039;s followers by Philip I, we know also that Philip I built a monument to Gordian III&#039;s memory immediately after his death, and the Parthians said they killed Gordian III in battle. So I tend to believe based on what we know that he in fact died in battle instead of killed by Philip I while on campaign.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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