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Valentinian III
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Valentinian III,
Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
Name commonly known as: Valentinian
III
Latin Roman Name: Flavius Placidius Valentinianus
Reigned as Roman
Emperor / Caesar: 423-424 as Caesar
in the west and 425 - 16 March 455
as emperor in the west
Dynasty /
Historical Period: Western Empire
(394 - 476) which led to the
disintegration of Roman authority
and the Fall of the Roman Empire
Place and Date of
Birth: 2 July 419 at Ravenna
Name of previous Emperor: His predecessor or the Emperor before Valentinian III was
Honorius
and his successor was Petronius Maximus
Family connections / Genealogy
*** Name of Father: Constantius
III
*** Name of Mother: Galla
Placidia
*** Married: Licinia Eudoxia
*** Daughters: Eudocia and Placidia, married to
Huneric and Olybrius
Place and Date of
Death: Died 16 March 455 aged 35
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Valentinian III from the following facts and information about his life.
In 424 the Eastern Emperor
Theodosius II elected as emperor his cousin Valentinian
III, the son of Constantius III restoring the legitimate
dynasty. Why was Valentinian III famous?
Accomplishments, achievements and important events.
Valentinian III and the Vandals
The Vandals were coming. They were another tribe
of Teutons; tall, strong, fair-haired and much like the
Goths. Genseric and his Vandals were on the way, and there
was nothing for it but to fight them. Valentinian III, made
a treaty with Genseric, and even yielded up to him all
rights to the old Roman province of Africa. But Genseric had
a strong fleet of ships, and went on attacking and
plundering Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, Italy and the coasts
of Greece. Britain, at the same time, was being tormented by
the attacks of the Saxons by sea, and the Caledonians from
the north. Gaul was being overrun by the Goths in the south,
the Burgundians in the middle, and the Franks in the north,
so that scarcely more than Italy itself remained to
Valentinian III. The Eastern half of the Empire was better
off, though it was tormented by the Persians in the East, on
the northern border by the Eastern Goths or Ostrogoths, who
had stayed on the banks of the Danube instead of coming to
Italy and to the south by the Vandals from Africa.
Valentinian III and Attila the Hun
The next terrible enemy who was coming against
the unhappy Valentinian III and the Roman Empire was the
nation of Huns, a wild, savage race, who were of the same
stock as the Tartars, and dwelt as they do in the northern
parts of Asia. Their leader's name was Attila. An embassy
was sent to him at his camp. However, he did not then attack
Italy, but turned upon Gaul. So much was he hated and
dreaded by the Teutonic nations, that all Goths, Franks, and
Burgundians flocked to join the Roman forces under commander
Aetius to drive him back. The next year Attila demanded that
Valentinian's sister, Justa Grata Honoria, should be given
to him, and when she was refused, he led his host into Italy
and destroyed all the beautiful cities of the north. The
wretched Valentinian at Ravenna was helpless and useless,
and Attila proceeded towards Rome. The brave Pope Leo I
persuaded Attila to take a great ransom rather than
destroying Rome. He also persuaded Attila to accept a dowry
instead of Honoria. Attila to his camp on the Danube with
all his horde, and soon after his arrival he married a young
girl whom he had made prisoner. The next morning he was
found dead on his bed in a pool of his own blood, and she
was gone - the date was 453.
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Valentinian thought the danger over, and when
commander Aetius came back to Ravenna, he grew jealous of
his glory and stabbed him with his own hand. Genseric, king
of the Vandals then returned. The pillage lasted fourteen
days, and the Vandals stripped churches, houses, and all
alike, putting their booty on board their ships. The pillage
lasted fourteen days, and the Vandals stripped churches,
houses putting their booty on board their ships. Sixty
thousand captives, among them the Empress Eudoxia were taken
prisoner.
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In 454 Aetius, whose son had married a daughter
of Valentinian III was treacherously murdered by the
emperor. In the following year on March 16 455AD the emperor
Valentinian III was assassinated in Rome, by two of the
barbarian followers of Aetius.
Valentinian III
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