Valentinian III

Reece Period attributed: Period 22

Member of the Fifth Century dynasty.

Coins for this issuer were issued from 425 until 455.

Placidius Valentinianus was the son of Constantius III and Galla Placidia. After Constantius II died, his widow quarrelled with Honorius and fled to Constantinople in 423. She returned with her son to Italy two years later, and when the usurper Johannes was put to death they travelled to Rome.

Valentinian III was proclaimed emperor at Rome in 425, and for the first 12 years of his reign Placidia took control. Control then passed to the general Aetius, who was assassinated in 454.

Valentinian’s reign saw the slow dissolution of the western empire, including the loss of Africa to the Vandals and Atilla’s invasion of Gaul.

Valentinian III was assassinated in 455 as the result of a plot instigated by the senator Petronius Maximus.

Other resources about Valentinian III

• Dbpedia: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Valentinian_III
• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentinian_III
• VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/56825259

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Information from Wikipedia

• Preferred label: Valentinian III
• Full names:
  • Valentinian III
• Title: Roman consul VI, Western Roman emperor, Roman consul VII, Roman consul IV, Roman consul III, Roman consul V, Roman consul II
• Predecessor: Joannes
• Successor: Petronius Maximus
• Definition: Valentinian III (Latin: Placidus Valentinianus; 2 July 419 – 16 March 455) was Roman emperor in the West from 425 to 455. Made emperor in childhood, his reign over the Roman Empire was one of the longest, but was dominated by powerful generals vying for power amid civil wars and the invasions of Late Antiquity's Migration Period, including the campaigns of Attila the Hun. He was the son of Galla Placidia and Constantius III, and as the great-grandson of Valentinian I (r. 364–375) he was the last emperor of the Valentinianic dynasty. As a grandson of Theodosius I (r. 379–395), Valentinian was also a member of the Theodosian dynasty, to which his wife, Licinia Eudoxia, also belonged. A year before assuming the rank of augustus, Valentinian was given the imperial rank of caesar by his half-cousin and co-emperor Theodosius II (r. 402–450). The augusta Galla Placidia had great influence during her son's rule. During his early reign Aetius, Felix, and the comes africae, Bonifacius all competed for power within the western empire. Eventually Aetius would defeat Felix and Bonifacius. Aetius would go on to campaign against the many Germanic tribes invading the empire. During Valentinian's reign the Huns invaded the Roman Empire. Eventually Aetius would defeat the Huns at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains. Once the Huns returned, Pope Leo I and two other senators convinced Attila to leave. Valentinian himself killed Aetius, and in response Aetius's bodyguards assassinated Valentinian. Valentinian's reign was marked by the ongoing collapse of the western empire.
• Parents:
  • Father: Constantius III
  • Mother: Galla Placidia
• Birth place: Ravenna
• Death place:
• Spouse:
  • Licinia Eudoxia
• Other title(s):
  • Roman consul VI
  • Western Roman emperor
  • Roman consul VII
  • Roman consul IV
  • Roman consul III
  • List of Roman consuls
  • Roman consul V
  • Roman consul II
• Came After:
  • Senator (consul 436)
  • Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (consul 446)
  • Valerius Faltonius Adelfius
  • Avitus
  • Anicius Auchenius Bassus (consul 431)
  • Marcian
  • Anthemius Isidorus
  • Antiochus Chuzon
  • Iohannes (consul 456)
  • Hierius (consul 427)
  • Flavius Aetius
  • Ardabur (consul 427)
  • Varanes (consul 456)
• Came before:
  • Castinus
  • Florentius Romanus Protogenes
  • Albinus (consul 444)
  • Florentius (consul 429)
  • Victor
  • Areobindus (consul 434)
  • Astyrius
  • Dionysius (consul 429)
  • Theodosius II
  • Aspar
  • Festus
  • Flavius Studius
  • Aetius (comes domesticorum)
• Subjects on wikipedia:
  • Ancient child rulers
  • 5th-century Roman emperors
  • 5th-century murdered monarchs
  • Valentinian III
  • 5th-century Christians
  • Caesars (heirs apparent)
  • Valentinianic dynasty
  • Sons of Roman emperors
  • Imperial Roman consuls
  • Theodosian dynasty
  • People from Ravenna
  • 5th-century Roman consuls
  • Murdered Roman emperors
  • Nobilissimi
  • 419 births
  • 455 deaths