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Birth:          ABT  401 Athens, Greece
Death:          20 Oct  460 Jerusalem

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Eudocia, original name Athenais (d. 20 Oct 460, Jerusalem), wife of the Eastern 
Roman emperor Theodosius II. She was a highly cultured woman who exercised great 
influence over her husband until her withdrawal from Constantinople.

Athenais, as she was then called, came from Athens, where her father, Leontius, was 
a pagan philosopher. Before she and Theodosius were married (in June 421), Athenais 
was baptized a Christian and changed her name to Eudocia. A year later she gave 
birth to a daughter, Licinia Eudoxia, who married (437) the Western emperor 
Valentinian II (reigned 425-455). In 438 Eudocia went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. 
After a quarrel with Theodosius' influential sister Pulcheria, she returned to Jerusalem 
in 443 and remained there for the rest of her life, directing the rebuilding of that city's 
fortifications and the construction of several splendid churches.

Eudocia was sympathetic to Monophysitism - a heresy that maintained that Christ's 
human nature is absorbed in his divine nature - but she died an orthodox Christian. In 
addition to religious poetry she wrote a panegyric on the Roman victory over the 
Perians (422).

[Encylopaedia Britannica, 1995]

Parents
____ Leontius (ABT  375 - )
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Siblings
OF ATHENS Eudocia (Athenais) (ABT  401 - 20 Oct  460)

Marriage To ____ Theodosius II (10 Apr  401 - 28 Jul  450)
    m.  

Notes

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

Children by ____ Theodosius II 10 Apr  401 - 28 Jul  450
OF THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE Licinia Eudoxia ( 422 - )

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