After 454, Orestes, a Pannonian who had been one of Attila's secretaries, entered Roman service, and took control of the army. In 475, his son was elected as Emperor during his father's regency. However, discontented German mercenaries demanded that the system for the handing over of land be reorganized in their favour, an ultimatum to which Orestes refused to listen. This was not one of his better ideas, because the mercenaries killed him (476) and elect a Scirian, Odovacar, as their king, who proceeded to defended the Italian frontiers against the various barbarian forces. Odovacar's promotion marked the end of the Roman Empire of the West. (Previte-Orton, C.W. [1952], "Shorter Cambridge Medieval History", vol. I: 100-101).

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