Valentinian Iii
| Valentinian III | |
|---|---|
| Roman Emperor | |
 Solidus with the effigy of Valentinian III Reverse: Theodosius II unit Licinia Eudoxia and Valentinian. | |
| Reign | |
| 23 October 425 - 16 March 455 (~ 30 years) | |
| Period | Theodosians |
| Predecessor (s) | Flavius Honorius (legitimate) Jean (usurper) |
| Successor (s) | Petronius Maximus |
| Biography | |
| Birth | 2 July 419 - Ravenna ( Italy ) |
| Original Name | Flavius Placidius Valentinianus |
| Deaths | 16 March 455 (35) |
| Father | Constantius III |
| Mother | Galla Placidia |
| Spouse (s) | Licinia Eudoxia |
| Descent | (1) Eudocia (2) Placidia |
| List of Roman Emperors of the West | |
Placidius Valentinianus or Valentinian III ( July 2 419 , Ravenna - 16 March 455 , Rome ) was a Roman emperor (from 424 to 455 ). He was the only son of Constantius III and Galla Placidia , daughter of the great Theodosius. He was named Caesar on 23 October 424 at Constantinople , and after a brief war in Italy to remove the official John installed on the throne, he was crowned emperor of the Western Roman Empire in Rome on 23 October 425. In 438, Valentinian III prohibits the circus.
It was only six years when he received the title of Augustus , so it's his mother who had published on its behalf Act citations in 426 and reigned with Aetius until 433. In October 437 , he married in Constantinople his cousin Licinia Eudoxia , daughter of Theodosius II , he spent the winter in Thessaloniki and returned to Ravenna in the following year, where he lived until 450. From this marriage were born two daughters, Eudoxia and Placidia.
His reign was marked by the collapse of the Roman Empire , the conquest of the province of Roman Africa by the Vandals in 439 , the loss of part of the territory of Hispania and Gaul , where barbarians and finally settled the ravaging of Sicily and the eastern shores of the Sea Mediterranean fleets by Genseric.
Only Gaul was successfully defended by Aetius for twenty years:
- he compelled the Burgundians to settle as people Federated in Savoy
- he pushed Attila in 451 between Troyes and Chalons ,
- He quartered the Visigoths in southern Gaul in 426 , 429 and 436 ,
- He drove the invaders from the Rhine and the Danube from 428 to 431.
The tax proved to be increasingly intolerable for the provinces and altered their loyalty to Rome, even though the declining power of the imperial capital. In matters of religion, the third was intolerant of Valentinians: According to the Theodosian Code, three general persecution edicts were issued against the pagans in 435, 438 and 451. Any act of paganism was now punishable by death, reaffirming that the laws of Theodosius I (391 and 392). As for non-Catholic Christians, a similar fate was reserved for them from 447.
Valentinian III moved to Rome in 450, he left to shut himself up in Ravenna at the approach of Attila. In 452, Attila returns to attack Italy, but it is left aside by the promise of tribute, or through the negotiation of Pope Leo I. Troop movements in Eastern Emperor Marcian on the Danube border of Attila may play an important role in the withdrawal of the conqueror.
In 454 , the son of Aetius was to marry the daughter of the emperor, but Aetius was murdered by the hand of Valentinian Bibliography See also
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