Mauricius was the son of
Mundus (Mundo), himself possibly a grandson of
Attila, king of the Huns. He was a
strategos, a military general, in the Byzantine Empire. In 529, he went to
Constantinople with his father, where he received gifts from the Byzantine Emperor
Justinian I. In 532 he fought in the
Nika riots on the side of the Byzantines. In January of that year he commanded his troops in the hippodrome massacre, which ended the riots. ==Legacy==