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."