His reign was supported by his principal general, Flavius Stilicho, who was successively Honorius's guardian ( during his childhood ) and his father-in-law ( after the emperor became an adult ).

Constantius III married Arcadius's and Honorius's sister Galla Placidia, and she bore him a son, Valentinian III.

In 409, Marcellinus of Carthage, Emperor Honorius's secretary of state, decreed the Donatists heretical and demanded that they give up their churches.

Honorius's court made overtures to the usurper Constantine III in Gaul and arranged to bring Hunnic forces into Italia, Alaric ravaged Italia outside the fortified cities ( which he could not garrison ), and the Romans refused open battle ( for which they had inadequate forces ).

Honorius's wife Thermantia, daughter of Stilicho, was taken from the imperial throne and given over to her mother ; Eucherius, the son of Stilicho, was put to death.

In the interregnum, Honorius's patrician at the time of his death, Castinus, elevated Joannes as emperor.

Paulinus eventually returned to Kent, where at Eadbald's and Archbishop Honorius's request he became bishop of Rochester, and York was not made an archbishopric for another century.

Before he could do so, while he was away at Ticinum at the head of a small detachment, a bloody coup against his supporters took place at Honorius's court.

He had Constantine's principal court supporter executed and Constantine abandoned plans to march to Honorius's defence.

Initially Galla Placidia sought Honorius's favour in the hope that her son might ultimately inherit.

Before Constantius arrived, the Persian general Narses, who was possibly the king's brother, overran Mesopotamia and captured Amida.

Before facing Magnentius, Constantius first came to terms with Vetranio, a loyal general in Illyricum who had recently been acclaimed emperor by his soldiers.

Constantius subsequently sent Vetranio the imperial diadem and acknowledged the general ‘ s new position as Augustus.

The time when Cyril was Bishop of Jerusalem was one of general tolerance, however, as set forth by the ecumenist Emperor Constantius who was preoccupied with unity.

* Flavius Constantius, Roman general and politician, is promoted to the rank of magister militum.

* January 1 – Emperor Honorius forces his half-sister Galla Placidia into marriage to Constantius, his general ( magister militum ).

* Constantius III, Roman general ( magister militum ), begins a military campaign against the Visigoths in Gaul.

* Constantius, Roman general ( magister militum ), drives the Visigoths out of Gaul.

* Constantius Gallus sends his general ( magister equitum ) Ursicinus to forcefully put down the Jewish revolt in Palestine.

The able general having been disposed of, Constantius besieged the city for three months until the general of Constantine, Edobichus, who had been sent across the border to find allies, did return with a large army of Franks and Alamanni.

In 296 the general Constantius Chlorus invaded Britain to reclaim Britain for Rome.

Despite Magnentius ' efforts to gain Vetranio to his cause, the old general reached Constantius with his army, and resigned the crown.

Ammianus Marcellinus, a noted Roman historian and general who served in the army of Constantius II in Gaul and Persia and fought against the Sassanid army under Julian the Apostate, described the sight of a contingent of massed Persian cataphracts in the 4th century:

So violent did the tumult become that Constantius sent his general Hermogenes to eject Paul for a second time.

A second visit in around 446 – 7 by Germanus, a former Roman general who had become Bishop of Auxerre, recorded in Constantius ' Vita, could have reflected Aetius ' response to the message.

The Constantinian dynasty properly began with Constantius " Chlorus " ( caesar, 293, augustus, 305 ), an experienced Illyrian soldier and general ; the Constantiniani were originally another family of " Barracks Emperors ".

Basil persuaded Constantius to summon a general council, Ancyra being proposed, then Nicomedia ( both in Asia Minor ), but as the latter city was destroyed by an earthquake, Basil was again at Sirmium in 359 where the Arianizers had meanwhile regained their footing ; with Germinius of Sirmium, George of Alexandria, Ursacius and Valens, and bishop ( later saint ) Marcus of Arethusa, he held a conference which lasted until night.

Students are approximately equally divided between those who regard vocational preparation as the primary goal of an ideal education and those who chose a general liberal education.

The students who are most willing to acquiesce in the suppression of civil liberties are also those who are most likely to be prejudiced against minority groups, to be conformist and traditionalistic in general social attitudes, and to lack a basic faith in people.

College in gross -- just the general experience -- may have varying effects, but the students who are successful emerge with strengthened and clarified democratic values.

Those who do have occasion to deal with the invasions in a more general way, like T.W. Shore and Arthur Wade-Evans, are on the side of a gradual and often peaceful Germanic penetration into Britain.

Without really changing the general subject, I take this opportunity to confess that I am troubled by doubts, not only about pacifism, but also when asked to join in the protest against a law that most of those who consider themselves humane and liberal seem to regard as obviously barbarous ; ;

The arguments advanced by those individuals and groups who oppose the system in force and who would drastically curtail or do away entirely with hospital care for the non-service-connected case, seem to be coldly impractical and out-of-step with the wishes of the general public.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

This problem of fair and equitable assessment of value is a difficult one to solve in that the determination of fair valuation is dependent on local assessors, who in general are non-professional and part-time personnel taking an individualistic approach to the problem.

Of majestic build, rubicund and slash-mouthed, he resembled the late General Winfield Scott, who was said to be the most imposing general of his century, if not of all centuries.

This patient was a 65-year-old white male accountant who entered the New York Hospital for his fourth and terminal admission on June 26, 1959, because of disabling weakness and general debility.

In general, it appears that educational decisions and educational policies are made by people who intend to act in the interests of the society as a whole.

Unfortunately, few of the artists ( writers, movie producers, dramatists and musicians ) who have used American folklore since 1900 have known enough to distinguish between the two streams even in the most general of ways.

During the Civil War, Custer, who achieved a brilliant record, was made brigadier general at the age of 23.

Those who, because of population mobility and the reputed desire of employers to train their own employees, would limit vocational education to general rather than specific skills ought to bear in mind the importance of motivation in any kind of school experience.

Like Philadelphia's late Dr. Albert C. Barnes who kept his own great collection closed to the general public ( Time, Jan. 2 ), Thompson, at 61, is something of a legend in his own lifetime.

She had used his rumpled shorts as the very image of his childishness, his lack of control, his general male looseness, while she remained cool, airy, and untouched, the charming teacher who disciplined an unruly body.

While there is general agreement on these six families, there are some points of disagreement among linguists who study Afroasiatic.

Gen. Gideon J. Pillow, who had been initially in command in Tennessee as that State's top general.

Gen. John B. Floyd, who was to take command at Fort Donelson as the senior general present just before Brig.

An amateur who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest, or who possesses a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge, is often referred to as a dilettante.

As head of state, Queen Elizabeth II is represented in Antigua and Barbuda by a governor general who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet.