When Theodosius died, in January 395, Honorius and Arcadius divided the Empire, so that Honorius became Western Roman Emperor at the age of ten.

He became pope on 27 October 625, two days after the death of his predecessor, Boniface V. The festival of the Elevation of the Cross is said to have been instituted during the pontificate of Honorius, which was marked also by considerable missionary enterprise.

Honorius soon became involved in the quarrel between King Louis VI of France and the French bishops.

The way in which Honorius was elected meant that he became a creature, not only of Cardinal Aymeric, but also of the Frangipani family.

While Honorius IV was inexorable in the stand he had taken towards Sicily, his relations towards Alfonso III of Aragon became less hostile.

Two of its bishops became antipopes: Càdalo, founder of the cathedral, as Honorius II ); and Guibert, as Clement III ).

Following the death of Theodosius, Honorius became emperor of the Western Roman Empire while his brother Arcadius was placed on the Eastern throne in Constantinople.

Saint Honorius ( Honoré ) ( d. 600 AD ) became the seventh bishop of the city.

Britannia became one of the most loyal provinces of the Empire until its decline, when Britannia's manpower started to be diverted by civil wars, eventually leading Emperor Honorius to order Roman troops back home to help fight the invading hordes.

A prominent general and politician, he was the power behind the throne for much of the 410s, and in 421 briefly became co-emperor of the Western Empire with Honorius.

Honorius ( died 30 September 653 ) was a member of the Gregorian mission to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism in 597 AD who later became Archbishop of Canterbury.

Ravenna became the capital of the Western Roman Empire in 402 under Honorius, due to its fine harbour with access to the Adriatic and its ideal defensive location amidst impassable marshes.

But that conflicts with Bede's own information earlier in the Historia, where he claims that Deusdedit's predecessor, Honorius, " died on the 30th of September 653, and after a vacancy of 18 months, Deusdedit, a West Saxon was elected to the archiepiscopal see and became the 6th Archbishop.

Heraclianus, co-conspirator of Olympius, became governor of the Diocese of Africa, and he controlled the source of most of Italia's grain in the interests of Honorius.

On Celestine's resignation, Scannabecchi became Honorius II.

" The Eastern Emperor Theodosius II hesitated to nominate a new emperor of the West ; Stewart Oost points out that with Honorius ' death, " technically and legally he became sole ruler of the whole Roman Empire ".

After holding the consulate at the age of two, Honorius was declared Augustus by his father Theodosius I, and thus co-ruler, on 23 January 393 after the death of Valentinian II and the usurpation of Eugenius.

Jovinus tried to negotiate with the invading Goths of Ataulf ( 412 ), but his proclamation of his brother Sebastianus as Augustus made Ataulf seek alliance with Honorius.

cy: Flavius Augustus Honorius

After the death in 392 of Valentinian II, whom Theodosius had supported against a variety of usurpations, Theodosius ruled as sole Emperor, appointing his younger son Honorius Augustus as his co-ruler for the West ( Milan, on 23 January 393 ) and by defeating the usurper Eugenius on 6 September 394, at the Battle of the Frigidus ( Vipava river, modern Slovenia ) he restored peace.

By his first wife, the probably Spanish Aelia Flaccilla Augustus, he had two sons, Arcadius and Honorius and a daughter, Aelia Pulcheria ; Arcadius was his heir in the East and Honorius in the West.

In January 393, Theodosius gave his son Honorius the full rank of " Augustus " in the West, citing Eugenius ' illegitimacy.

* Heraclianus, governor ( Comes Africae ), revolts against Honorius and proclaimed himself Augustus.

* January 23 – Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his son Honorius, age 8, co-ruler ( Augustus ) of the Western Roman Empire.

* February 8 – Constantius III is appointed co-emperor ( Augustus ) with his ineffectual brother-in-law, Honorius, and becomes the real ruler of the Western Roman Empire.

* A member of the House of Theodosius and distant relative of the Roman emperor Flavius Augustus Honorius, of whom little is known.

* Honorius ( emperor ) ( Flavius Augustus Honorius ), western Roman emperor 395 – 423

), ratifying the decrees of his predecessors the Emperors Arcadius and Flavius Augustus Honorius.

So in 411 Constantius, the magister militium ( master of military ) of the western emperor, Flavius Augustus Honorius, with Gothic auxiliaries under Ulfilas, crushed the Gallic rebellion with a siege of Arles.

The spectacle aroused the wrath of the early Christians who interpreted it as a disguised attempt to ridicule their faith and prohibitions were issued against such displays under the reign of Flavius Augustus Honorius ( 395 – 423 ) and of Theodosius II ( 408 – 450 ).

Theodosius also promoted his eight-year-old son Honorius to the rank of " Augustus " of the West in January 393.

Much of the tomb contents and decorations have been lost since the building's conversion to a military fortress in 401 and its subsequent inclusion in the Aurelian Walls by Flavius Augustus Honorius.

Constantine, without the approval of the Emperor Honorius elevated Constans to the rank of Augustus ; Constans was to go to Hispania to settle the matter, but before leaving news came that Gerontius had stopped the invaders, had rebelled to Constantine, and had proclaimed Emperor one of his men, Maximus of Hispania.

* Santa Reparata was constructed to celebrate the victory over Radagaisus on the day of S. Reparata, which happened during the reign of emperor Flavius Augustus Honorius ( 395-423 ).

* 411-A treaty with Western Roman Emperor Flavius Augustus Honorius grants Lusitania to the Alans, Gallaecia to the Suevi and Hasdingi, and Baetica to the Silingi.

This, coupled with Theodosius I elevating the status of his youngest son Honorius to full Augustus in 393 CE effectively reduced the legitimacy of Eugenius and pushed the two camps, those of Arbogast and Eugenius and Theodosius I and Ambrose, further apart from one another.

Theodosius died in 395, leaving the Empire to be divided between his two sons Arcadius and Honorius, the former taking the eastern and the latter, the western portion of the Empire.

After Theodosius's death in 395, the Empire was permanently divided into East and West by his seventeen-year-old and ten-year-old sons, Arcadius and Honorius, respectively.

In 408, Western Emperor Flavius Honorius ordered the execution of Stilicho and his family, and incited the Roman population to massacre tens of thousands of wives and children of Goths serving in the Roman military.

Honorius, however, refused to appoint Alaric as the commander of the Western Roman Army, and in 409 the Visigoths again surrounded Rome.

Arcadius was born in Hispania, the elder son of Theodosius I and Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of Honorius, who would become a Western Roman Emperor.

Roman control of Britain finally ended in the early part of the 5th century ; the date usually given as marking the end of Roman Britain is 410, when the Emperor Honorius sent letters to the British, urging them to look to their own defence.

Following efforts by Lamberto Scannabecchi ( later Pope Honorius II ) and the Diet of Würzburg ( 1121 ) in 1122, Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V entered into an agreement that effectively ended the Investiture Controversy.

The Order of Preachers (), after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Saint Dominic and approved by Pope Honorius III ( 1216 – 27 ) on 22 December 1216 in France.

In 1219 Pope Honorius III invited Saint Dominic and his companions to taken up residence at the ancient Roman basilica of Santa Sabina, which they did by early 1220.

Honorius (; 9 September 384 – 15 August 423 ), was Western Roman Emperor from 395 to 423.

The Western Roman Emperor Honorius, Jean-Paul Laurens ( 1880 ).

During the first part of his reign Honorius depended on the military leadership of the general Stilicho, who had been appointed by Theodosius and was of mixed Vandal and Roman ancestry.

In early 408, Stilicho attempted to strengthen his position at court by marrying his second daughter, Thermantia, to Honorius after the death of the empress Maria in 407 Another invasion by Alaric was prevented in 408 by Stilicho when he forced the Roman Senate to pay 4, 000 pounds of gold to persuade the Goths to leave Italy.

In 410, the Eastern Roman Empire sent six Legions ( 6, 000 men ; due to changes in tactics, legions of this period were about 1000 soldiers, down from the 6000-soldier legions of the Republic and early Empire periods ) to aid Honorius.

Lacking a strong general to control the by-now mostly barbarian Roman Army, Honorius could do little to attack Alaric's forces directly, and apparently adopted the only strategy he could in the situation: wait passively for the Visigoths to grow weary and spend the time marshalling what forces he could.

* This list of Roman laws of the fourth century shows laws passed by Honorius relating to Christianity.

The Eastern Roman Empire is centered in Constantinople under Arcadius, son of Theodosius, and the Western Roman Empire in Mediolanum under Honorius, his brother ( aged 10 ).

* 393 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight year old son Honorius co-emperor.

This was because Honorius was not considered by the supporters of infallibility to be speaking ex cathedra in the letters in question ( although the Roman historian Hefele and opponents of the definition believed that Honorius had spoken ex cathedra ), and he was alleged to have never been condemned as a Monothelite, nor, asserted the proponents of infallibility, was he condemned for teaching heresy, but rather for gross negligence and a lax leadership at a time when his letters and guidance were in a position to quash the heresy at its roots.

The death of Emperor Henry V on 23 May 1125 put an end to these squabbles, but soon Honorius was involved in a new power struggle in the Holy Roman Empire.