1. (b.505?-d.565) Byzantine military commander who suppressed the
Nika Revolt, conquered Vandal North Africa, Sicilia, and
Italy, and saved Constantinople from the Bulgarian Huns before being imprisoned on
trumped-up charges of treason in 562.
From
Wikipedia:
"Belisarius pretended to accept the offer,
rode to Ravenna to be
crowned, and promptly arrested the leaders of the Goths and reclaimed their entire kingdom - no halfway settlement - for Byzantium."