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Maximus also called Maximus Tyrannus was a Roman usurper (409 – 411) in Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula – modern Spain and Portugal). He had been elected by general Gerontius who might have been his father.Relations between the usurper Constantine III and his general Gerontius who had been sent to Hispania had been deteriorating through the year 409. When Constantine sent an army under his son and heir Constans Gerontius mutinied and installed Maximus in the late summer of 410.