Aelianus or Aelian was together with
Amandus the leader of an insurrection of Gallic peasants, called
Bagaudae, in the reign of
Diocletian. It was put down by the
Caesar Maximianus Herculius in 285.[1][2][3] The rebellion he led with Amandus in 285 was attributed by some to Christianity, but
Edward Gibbon doubts this in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.[4]