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Valentinian and felt
The end result of this was that Valentinian felt secure enough to begin plotting to have Aëtius killed, egged on by Petronius Maximus, a high ranking senator who bore Aëtius a personal grudge.

Valentinian and needed
In 374 Valentinian was forced to make peace with Macrian because the Emperor's presence was needed to counter an invasion of Illyricum by the Quadi and Sarmatians.

Valentinian and help
However, this all changed in 450 when Honoria, sister of the Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III, sent Attila a ring and requested his help to escape her betrothal to a senator.
Even Valentinian himself was not exempt, and he was forced to sacrifice a portion of his income and use the reduced contents of his personal income to help the State in its financial straits.
The two of them convinced Valentinian that Aëtius was planning to assassinate him, and spurred the Emperor to kill his magister militum during a meeting, which Valentinian did with his own hands, with the help of Heraclius, on September 21, 454.
However, this all changed in 450 when Honoria, sister of the Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III, sent Attila a ring and requested his help to escape her betrothal to a senator.
The West was at peace under Valentinian I, so the Semi-Arians sent envoys to that emperor and to the pope to get help.

Valentinian and govern
The opinion of most modern historians is that Valentinian not only lacked the ability to govern the empire in a time of crisis, but aggravated its dangers by his self-indulgence and vindictiveness.

Valentinian and large
On January 2 366 the Alemanni yet again crossed the frozen Rhine in large numbers, to invade the Gallic provinces, this time being defeated by Valentinian ( see Battle of Solicinium ).
Shortly afterwards, Aëtius returned to Italy with a large force of Huns to find that power in the west was now in the hands of Valentinian III and his mother Galla Placidia.

Valentinian and troublesome
Other contemporary writers offer different motivations: Honoria, a troublesome sister of the emperor Valentinian III, had been married off to the loyal senator Herculanus a few years before.

Valentinian and empire
Valentinian II, some hundreds of years later, protested against the same infractions and repeated similar laws: his was an officially Christian empire.
He was given the eastern half of the empire by his brother Valentinian I after the latter's accession to the throne.
As a consequence, in 435 Valentinian was forced to conclude a peace with Gaiseric, whereby the Vandals kept all their possessions in North Africa in return for a payment of tribute to the empire, while the Huns were granted new territory in Pannonia Savia to occupy.
Sometime before 449 their chieftain, Attila the Hun, Valentinian had granted the honorary title of Magister militum of the western empire upon Attila, and the western court was relieved when he concentrated on raiding the eastern empire ’ s provinces in the Balkans from 441 through to 449.
In 449, Attila received a message from Honoria, Valentinian III ’ s sister, offering him half the western empire if he would rescue for from an unwanted marriage that his brother was forcing her into.
Though he had ruled for thirty years, Valentinian had influenced the destinies of his empire even less than his uncle Honorius.
He founded the Valentinian Dynasty, with his sons Gratian and Valentinian II succeeding him in the western half of the empire.
Bede also supplies a date ( which was traditionally accepted, but has been considered suspect since the late 20th century ) of AD 446, " Marcian being made emperor with Valentinian, and the forty-sixth from Augustus, ruled the empire seven years.
When Theodosius had left the western half of the empire to Valentinian II, he had put his own men in the highest civil offices, to keep a strong grasp on the whole empire.
Valentinian I becomes emperor and splits the empire with his brother Valens.
Although further Emperors would don the purple on the basis of military power ( e. g., Constantine I, Valentinian I, and Theodosius I ), the phenomenon of the barracks emperors died out, to be replaced in the late imperial era by shadow emperors like Stilicho, Constantius III, Flavius Aëtius, Avitus, Ricimer, Gundobad, Flavius Orestes, and Odoacer, military strongmen who effectually ruled the empire as imperial generalissimos controlling weak-willed puppet emperors rather than by donning the purple themselves.
Furthermore, Eugenius had removed all the high civil officers left by Theodosius when he had given the Western half of the empire to Valentinian, so that Theodosius had lost control of the Western Roman Empire.
Furthermore, with the lines of communication being fractured at best between the Eastern half of the empire and the West as a result of the promotion of Rufinus to Praetorian Prefect in the East after the death of Valentinian II, Rufinus was able to inform Theodosius I about whatever he believed to be worthy of the Emperor's attention.

Valentinian and on
Under Ambrose's major influence, emperors Gratian, Valentinian II and Theodosius I carried on a persecution of Paganism .< ref name = " MacMullen1984p100 "> MacMullen ( 1984 ) p. 100: ‘ The law of June 391, issued by Theodosius [...] was issued from Milan and represented the will of its bishop, Ambrose ; for Theodosius — recently excommunicated by Ambrose, penitent, and very much under his influence < sup > 43 </ sup > — was no natural zealot.
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.
* 455 – Emperor Valentinian III is assassinated by two Hunnic retainers while training with the bow on the Campus Martius ( Rome ).
Valentinian Gnosticism claims that matter came about through emanations of the supreme being, and to some this event is held to be more of an accident than of being on purpose.
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.
The two Augusti travelled together through Adrianople and Naissus to Sirmium, where they divided their personnel, and Valentinian went on to the West.
Procopius was executed on 27 May and his head sent to Valentinian in Trier for inspection.
Valentinian is killed while training with the bow on the Campus Martius ( Rome ).
* November 17 – Emperor Valentinian I concludes an enduring peace with the Alamanni in Germany, then marches into Illyrium to repel an invasion of the Quadi and the Sarmatians on the Danube frontier.
Feeling that the primatial rights of the bishop of Rome were threatened, Leo appealed to the civil power for support, and obtained from Valentinian III the famous decree of 6 June 445, which recognized the primacy of the bishop of Rome based on the merits of Peter, the dignity of the city, and the legislation of the First Council of Nicaea ; and provided for the forcible extradition by provincial governors of any bishop who refused to answer a summons to Rome.
With the Western throne vacant, Gaiseric supported Olybrius for the purple ; the reason for this decision was that Gaiseric's son Huneric and Olybrius had married the two daughters of Valentinian III ( Petronius ' son, Palladius, had been killed during the sack of Rome ), and therefore, with Olybrius on the throne, Gaiseric could exert great influence on the Western Empire.
It was only in the following year, after Joannes had been defeated in a combined naval and land campaign, that Valentinian was installed by the eastern patricius et magister officiorum Helion as Western Emperor in Rome, on October 23, 425, at the age of six.
With Aëtius completely occupied with events in Gaul, Valentinian was unable to do anything to prevent the Vandals completely overrunning the remaining western African provinces, culminating in the fall of Carthage on 19 October, 439.
In that year, two additional taxes were issued in Valentinian ’ s name, one a sales tax of around four percent, and another on the senatorial class, specifically to raise new troops as well feeding and clothing them.
In 454 Aëtius, whose son had married Valentinian ’ s youngest daughter, Placidia, was murdered by Valentinian on 21 September 454.
The eldest son of Valentinian I, during his youth Gratian accompanied his father on several campaigns along the Rhine and Danube frontiers.
Barbatio complained to Constantius and the debacle was blamed on Valentinian and Bainobaudes, who were cashiered from the army.
Valentinian accepted the acclamation on 26 February 364.
Valentinian selected his brother Valens as co-Augustus at Constantinople on 28 March 364.

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