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Birth:          2 Jul  419 Ravenna, Italy
Death:          16 Mar  455 Rome, Italy

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Valentinian III, Latin in full, Flavius Placidius Valentinianus (b. 2 July 419, Ravenna - 
d. 27 Mar 455, Rome), Roman emperor from 425 to 455. At no time in his long reign 
were the affairs of state personally managed by Valentinian. He was the son of the 
patrician Flavius Constantius (who ruled as Constantius III in 421) and Galla Placidia. 
When his uncle, the emperor Honorius, died in 423, the usurper John ruled for two 
years before he was deposed. Then Placidia controlled the West in her young son's 
name until 437, although the powerful patrician Aetius became the effective ruler 
toward the end of this regency. The most important political event of these years was 
the landing of the Vandals in Africa in 429; 10 years later they threw off the 
overlordship of Valentinian's government.

On 29 Oct 437, Valentinian married Licinia Eudoxia, the daughter of Theodosius II 
(Eastern emperor, 408-450) and Eudocia. Little is known of Valentinian in the years 
after his marriage. He spent his life in the pursuit of pleasure while Aetius controlled 
the government. In 444 Valentinian, acting in conjunction with Pope Leo I the Great, 
issued the famous Novel 17, which assigned to the bishop of Rome supremacy over 
the provincial churches. The most important political events of the closing years of his 
reign were the Hun invasions of Gaul (451) and of northern Italy (452), but it is not 
known whether Valentinian personally played any significant part in meeting these 
crises.

As a result of false information that made him doubt Aetius's loyalty, Valentinian 
murdered the great patrician with his own hands in the imperial palace at Rome on 21 
Sep 454. The following year, two barbarians, Optila and Thraustila, who had been 
reatiners of Aetius, avenged their master by murdering the Emperor in the Campus 
Martius.

[Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1995]

Parents
____ Constantius III (ABT  385 - Sep  421)
OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE Galla Placidia (ABT  389 - 27 Nov  450)

Siblings
____ Valentinian III (2 Jul  419 - 16 Mar  455)

Marriage To OF THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE Licinia Eudoxia ( 422 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Theodosius II (10 Apr  401 - 28 Jul  450)
OF ATHENS Eudocia (Athenais) (ABT  401 - 20 Oct  460)

Children by OF THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE Licinia Eudoxia  422 - 
OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE Eudoxia (ABT  448 - )

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