Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Victorinus ya shafe mafi yawan mulkinsa yana magance tawaye da ƙoƙarin dawo da yankunan Gaul da Claudius Gothicus ya ɗauka. An kashe shi a shekara ta 271, amma mahaifiyarsa Victoria ta mallaki sojojinsa kuma ta yi amfani da ikonta don rinjayar zaɓen wanda zai gaje shi. Tare da goyon bayan Victoria, Tetricus ya zama Sarkin sarakuna, kuma an san shi a Britannia da sassan Gaul waɗanda suka san Victorinus. Tetricus ya yi yaƙi da barbarians na Jamusawa waɗanda suka fara lalata Gaul bayan mutuwar Victorinus, kuma ya sami damar sake ɗaukar Gallia Aquitania da yammacin Gallia Narbonensis yayin da magajin Claudius Gothicus Aurelian yake gabas yana yaƙi da Daular Palmyrene, yanzu a bude tawaye ga ikon Roman karkashin Sarauniya Zenobia. Tetricus ya kafa fadar sarki a Trier, kuma a shekara ta 273 ya ɗaukaka ɗansa, wanda shi ma ake kira Tetricus, zuwa matsayin Kaisar. A shekara mai zuwa an sanya ƙaramin Tetricus co-consul tare da mahaifinsa, amma yankin da ke ƙarƙashin ikonsu ya raunana daga rikice-rikicen cikin gida, gami da tawaye da mai karɓar ikon Faustinus ya jagoranta. A wannan lokacin Aurelian ya ci Daular Palmyrene kuma ya yi shirin sake mallakar yamma. Ya koma Gaul kuma ya ci Tetricus a yakin Châlons
a cikin 274; bisa ga wasu kafofin, Tetricus ya miƙa don mika wuya a musayar gafarar shi da ɗansa kafin yaƙin. Wannan daki-daki na iya zama furofaganda daga baya, amma ko ta yaya, Aurelian ya yi nasara, kuma Gallic Empire ya ƙare. Ya bambanta da farfagandarsa bayan nasarar da aka yi wa Zenobia, Aurelian bai gabatar da sake dawo da Gaul ba a matsayin nasara a kan abokin gaba na waje, kuma hakika da yawa daga cikin jami'an da suka yi aiki a cikin sojojin da kuma gwamnatin Gallic Empire sun ci gaba da ayyukansu - ciki har da Tetricus, wanda aka nada shi a matsayin mai gudanarwa a Italiya.