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Birth:          10 Apr  401 Constantinople
Death:          28 Jul  450 Constantinople
Cause of Death: injuries in hunting accident

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Theodosius II (b. 10 April 401, Constantinople [now Istanbul, Turkey] - d. 28 July 450), 
Eastern Roman emperor from 408 to 450. He was a gentle, scholarly, easily dominated 
man who allowed his government to be run by a succession of relatives and ministers.

The son of the Eastern emperor Arcadius (reigned 383-408), he was made co-emperor 
in 402 and became sole ruler of the East upon his father's death in 408. At first the 
able Anthemius, praetorian prefect of the East, was regent for young Theodosius. 
Anethemius dropped out of sight in 414, when the emperor's sister, Pulcheria received 
the title augusta and assumed the regency. Throughout his reign, control of the 
government remained out of Theodosius' hands.

At various times during his reign, Theodosius sent armies against the Vandals of 
Africa, the Persians, and the Huns. His generals defeated Persian (Sasanian) invaders 
in 422 and 447, but campaigns against the Vandals, who had occupied most of Roman 
Africa in 429, ended in failure. Theodosius' policy of appeasing the mighty Hun leader 
Attila did not prevent massive Hun invasions of the Danube provinces in 441-442 and 
447. His reign was also troubled by a dispute over the heretical doctrines of Nestorius, 
whom Theodosius appointed patriarch of Constantinople in 428. Nesorius was 
deposed by a church council in 431.

Theodosius' name is associated with three important projects. The first, erection of an 
impregnable wall around Constantinople (413), was actually the work of Anthemius. 
The emperor did, however, have a hand in founding the University of Constantinople 
in 425 and in supervising compilation of the Theodosian Code (published 438), which 
codified the laws issued after 312. Theodosius died from injuries suffered during a 
hunting accident. His daughter Licinia Eudoxia married the Western Roman emperor 
Valentinian III (reigned 425-455).

[Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1995]

Parents
____ Arcadius I (ABT  377 - May  408)
OF THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE Eudoxia (ABT  380 - 6 Oct  404)

Siblings
____ Theodosius II (10 Apr  401 - 28 Jul  450)

Marriage To OF ATHENS Eudocia (Athenais) (ABT  401 - 20 Oct  460)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Leontius (ABT  375 - )
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Children by OF ATHENS Eudocia (Athenais) ABT  401 - 20 Oct  460
OF THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE Licinia Eudoxia ( 422 - )

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