Numerus Batavorum

Although the Praetorians may be considered the Roman emperor's main bodyguard, the Germanic bodyguards were a unit of more personal guards recruited from distant parts of the Empire, so they had no political or personal connections with Rome or the provinces.

[9][10] The members of the Numerus Batavorum were recruited from the Germanic tribes resident in, or on the borders of, the Roman province of Germania Inferior, with most recruits drawn from the Batavi[11] but also from neighbouring tribes of the Rhine delta region, including the Frisii,[12] Baetasii[13] and Ubii.

[18] The guard was disbanded briefly after the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest,[19] and was finally dissolved by Galba in 68[3] because of its loyalty to Nero (ruled 54–68), whom he had overthrown.

[20] Their indirect successors were the Equites singulares Augusti which were, likewise, mainly recruited from the Germani.

[21] Herod the Great, a client king of Judea, had a Germanic bodyguard modeled upon that of Augustus.