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When Galla married Theodosius, she became both a Roman empress and a stepmother to Theodosius’ two sons from his first marriage, Arcadius and Honorius. In July and August of 388, the combined troops of Theodosius I and Valentinian II invaded the territory of Maximus under the leadership of Richomeres, Arbogast, Promotus, and Timasius.
Within 424, Valentinian was proclaimed a Caesar in the Eastern court. The following year, Joannes was defeated and executed. Valentinian replaced him as Augustus of the West. [4] Eudoxia and Valentinian III married on 29 October 437, in Thessalonike, their marriage marking the reunion of the two halves of the House of Theodosius.
In 387, Maximus broke his truce with Valentinian II by crossing the Alps into the Po Valley, where he threatened Mediolanum. Justina, Valentinian and Galla fled to Thessaloniki, capital of the Praetorian prefecture of Illyricum and at the time chosen residence of Theodosius. Theodosius was a widower, his first wife Aelia Flaccilla having died ...
Theodosius's second wife Galla, the daughter of Valentinian the Great by his second wife Justina, was Galla Placidia, born in 392 or 393. [1] Galla Placidia's brother Gratian, the son of Galla and Theodosius, died in 394. [1] Another son, John (Latin: Ioannes), may have been born in 394. [1]
Aelia Eudocia was born circa 400 [citation needed] in Athens.The 7th century Chronicon Paschale describes her as Greek. [2] She was said to be of pagan background, [3] and according to her contemporary Socrates Scholasticus, she was baptized shortly before her marriage to Theodosius. [4]
Theodosius I joined himself with the ruling Valentinianic dynasty (r. 364–455) by wedding Galla, daughter of Valentinian the Great and his second wife Justina, and sister of Theodosius's co-augustus Gratian. He went on to establish an imperial dynasty of his own, making Count Theodosius the progenitor and patriarch of a line of Roman emperors ...
Valentinian was born in 321 at Cibalae (now Vinkovci, Croatia) in southern Pannonia [4] [5] into a family of Illyro-Roman origin. [6] Valentinian and his younger brother Valens were the sons of Gratianus (nicknamed Funarius), a military officer renowned for his wrestling skills.
Theodosius was born in Hispania [16] [17] [18] on 11 January, probably in the year 347. [19] His father of the same name, Count Theodosius, was a successful and high-ranking general (magister equitum) under the western Roman emperor Valentinian I, and his mother was called Thermantia. [20]