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Valentinian was born in Ravenna, the capital of the Western Roman Empire, as the only son of Galla Placidia and Constantius III, who briefly ruled as emperor in 421. [3] His mother was the younger half-sister of the western emperor Honorius (r.
Valentinian was then proclaimed augusta on his first anniversary, as Valentinian III (r. 425–455 ) at Rome on 23 October 425, with Placidia as regent . Theodosius further strengthened dynastic relations across the empire by betrothing his three-year-old daughter Licinia Eudoxia to Valentinian. [ 174 ]
Eudocia / j uː ˈ d oʊ ʃ ə / or Eudoxia / j uː ˈ d ɒ k ʃ ə / (439 – 466/474?) was the eldest daughter of Roman emperor Valentinian III and his wife, Licinia Eudoxia.She was thus the granddaughter on her mother's side of Eastern emperor Theodosius II and his wife, the poet Aelia Eudocia; and on her father's side of Western emperor Constantius III and his wife Galla Placidia.
Articles relating to the emperor Valentinian III of the Western Roman Empire (reigned 425–455). Pages in category "Valentinian III" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
After the fall of Joannes, Valentinian III was made augustus on the first anniversary of his investiture as caesar; he ruled the western provinces until his death on the 16 March 455, though Galla Placidia was regent during his youth. Galla Placidia died on 25 November 450.
The Law of Citations (Lex citationum) was a Roman law issued from Ravenna in AD 426 by the emperor Valentinian III, or rather by his regent mother, Galla Placidia Augusta, to the Senate and the people of Rome, and it was included in both Theodosius II's law compilation of 438 (Codex Theodosianus 1, 4, 3) and the first edition of the Codex Justinianus.
Valentinian may refer to: Valentinian I or Valentinian the Great (321–375), Western Roman emperor from 364 to 375; Valentinian II (371–392), Western Roman Emperor from 375 to 392; Valentinian III (419–455), Western Roman Emperor from 425 to 455; Valentinus (Gnostic), theologian and founder of Valentinianism; Valentinian, a Jacobean-era ...
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.