Is there a way to stop Praetorian Guards from murdering

>>2744526
The eastern empire replaced them with Ruskies but the same problems came up.

>>2744526

Rig the emperor with a bomb that goes off if he's stabbed.

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Hahahahahahahaha How The Fuck Is Being Murdered By the Praetorians Real Hahahaha Nigga Just Disband Them Like Nigga Grind Up Their Tombstones Haha

Instead of recruiting foreign barbarians to protect your head of state, you could do it with the regular organs of the law...

Praetorian murders only became a real problem once they got elevated to a higher social status and stationed inside the walls of Rome.

>>2744552
they'd just get a new recruit to do it

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purge them and replace them with indoctrinated fanatics with absolute loyalty

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You can't get murdered by the Praetorian Guard if you murder them first

>>2744541
By byzantine times their were no Preatorians for a couple hundret years, they got disolved in 312.

>>2744673
he's obviously talking about the Varangian Guard you utter August

That being said, they had a much broader role than the Praetorians did. Not really a fair comparison.

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>when the Praetorians side with your chief rival and you kill so many of them that there aren't enough left to kick up a fuss so you demolish their comrades' gravestones and turn them into a monument to how great you are

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No, you can't

>>2744526

1) Don't give your head of state absolute power over the purse. Many Emperors that were put into power were killed shortly thereafter in part for failure to keep their promises to increase soldier pay.

2) Don't have a fully professional military. A professional army is a mercenary army, an army that will betray the state the moment it's more profitable to do so.

3) Don't have the head of state's legitimacy based on dynastic succession. The Praetorian Guard would be less likely to kill their emperor if the question of who takes over was completely out of their hands.

4) Don't have a Praetorian Guard in the first place. Guarding the Emperor should be treated like jury duty except it pays better than your normal job. Do a random selection of Legionnaire's, vet them for loyalty and competency and if they are worthy, they will have the job but only for a few months. Short terms of service means less time to plot or grow entitled.

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Constantine just abolished them and replaced them with the Scholae

>>2744526
The praetorian guard was merely a more lethal version of checks and balances

>>2744801
Smart for the state dumb for the emperor.

>>2744526
create a counter praetorian guard so that the two branches are in constant competition and conflict so that they need me to mediate between them instead of killing me

>>2744526
If you're allowed to appoint your own successor, make sure it's someone the praetorian guard wouldn't want as Emperor.

>>2744526
>getting killed by your own bodyguards

What do they mean by this?

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>>2745190
Literally what T'ang China did and it worked remarkably well

The competition was between the
>Feathered Forest Guard (Guard Infantry)
>Dragon Martial Guard (Guard Cavalry)

It also helps that they're all taken from the aristocracy. Seconds sons usually and foreign hostages. The last prince of Sassanid Persia was an Imperial Guardsman.