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ROME, Emperor Theodosius II
347 - 395 (48 years) 
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Name ROME, Theodosius Prefix Emperor Suffix II Nickname The Great Birth 11 Jan 347 Coca, Segovia, Castile-León, Spain 
Gender Male Death 17 Jan 395 Milán, Milano, Lombardia, Italy Burial 8 Nov 395 Constantinople, Roman Empire WAC 27 Nov 1925 SLAKE _TAG Temple Headstones 
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Father THEODOSIUS, Flavius Theodocius , b. Apr 326, León, Castile-León, Spain León, Castile-León, Spaind. 17 Nov 376, Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia (Age 50 years) Mother CONSTANTINOPLE, Thermantia de , b. 325, Castile-León, Spain Castile-León, Spaind. Apr 386, Castile-León, Spain (Age 61 years) Family ID F28936 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 VALENTINIAN, Justina , b. 347, Pannonia, Roman Empire Pannonia, Roman Empired. May 394, Romano Canavese, Torino, Piedmont, Italy (Age 47 years) 
Children3 sons and 5 daughters Family ID F28890 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jan 2022
Family 2 CONSTANTINOPLE, Galla de , b. 325, Romano, Torino, Piemonte, Italy Romano, Torino, Piemonte, Italyd. 394, Romano, Torino, Piemonte, Italy (Age 69 years) Children1 son and 1 daughter Family ID F28934 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jan 2022
Family 3 AUGUSTA, Aelia Flaccilla , b. 31 Mar 356, Hispania, Roman Empire Hispania, Roman Empired. 386 (Age 29 years) Children2 sons and 1 daughter Family ID F28935 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jan 2022
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Notes - Flavius Theodosius Augustus, also known as Theodosius the Great, was Roman Emperor from 379 to 395. He was the last emperor to rule over both the eastern and the western halves of the Roman Empire. His social transformation was a pivotal, if under-recognized, milestone in European history, it parted with the Roman slavery and inaugurated a feudal society. During his reign, the Goths secured control of Illyricum after the Gothic War, establishing their homeland south of the Danube within the empire's borders. He also issued decrees that effectively made Nicene Christianity the official state church of the Roman Empire.
Theodosius was born in Cauca, Gallaecia, Hispania (according to Hydatius and Zosimus) or Italica, Baetica, Hispania (according to Marcellinus, writing later), to a senior military officer, Theodosius the Elder on 11 January 347.
From 364 to 375, the Roman Empire was governed by two co-emperors, the brothers Valentinian I and Valens; when Valentinian died in 375, his sons, Valentinian II and Gratian, succeeded him as rulers of the Western Roman Empire. In 378, after Valens was killed in the Battle of Adrianople, Gratian invited Theodosius to take command of the Illyrian army. As Valens had no successor, Gratian's appointment of Theodosius amounted to a de facto invitation for Theodosius to become co-Augustus of the East Roman Empire.
On 27 February 380, together with Gratian and Valentinian II, Theodosius issued the decree "Cunctos populos", the so-called "Edict of Thessalonica", recorded in the Codex Theodosianus xvi.1.2. This declared the Nicene Trinitarian Christianity to be the only legitimate Imperial religion and the only one entitled to call itself Catholic. Other Christians he described as "foolish madmen". He also ended official state support for the traditional Polytheism religions and customs.
On 26 November 380, two days after he had arrived in Constantinople, Theodosius expelled the non-Nicene bishop, Demophilus of Constantinople, and appointed Meletius patriarch of Antioch, and Gregory of Nazianzus, one of the Cappadocian Fathers from Antioch (today in Turkey), patriarch of Constantinople. Theodosius had just been baptized, by bishop Acholius of Thessalonica, during a severe illness, as was common in the early Christian world. In May 381, Theodosius summoned a new ecumenical council at Constantinople to repair the schism between East and West on the basis of Nicene orthodoxy.
The Christian persecution of Roman religion under Theodosius I began in 381, after the first couple of years of his reign in the Eastern Empire. In the 380s, Theodosius I reiterated Constantine's ban on former customs of Roman religion, prohibited haruspicy on pain of death, pioneered the criminalization of Magistrates who did not enforce laws against polytheism, broke up some pagan associations, and tolerated attacks on Roman temples.
Between 389–392 he promulgated the "Theodosian decrees" (instituting a major change in his religious policies), which removed non-Nicene Christians from church office and abolished the last remaining expressions of Roman religion by making its holidays into workdays, banned blood sacrifices, closed Roman temples, and disbanded the Vestal Virgins. The practices of taking auspices and witchcraft were punished. Theodosius refused to restore the Altar of Victory in the Senate House, as asked by non-Christian senators.
After Gratian was killed in a rebellion in 383, Theodosius appointed his own elder son, Arcadius, to be his co-ruler in the East. 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 of the West and by defeating the usurper Eugenius on 6 September 394, at the Battle of the Frigidus, he restored peace.
By his first wife, the probably Spanish Aelia Flaccilla Augusta, he had two sons, Arcadius and Honorius and a daughter, Aelia Pulcheria; Arcadius was his heir in the East and Honorius in the West. Both Aelia Flaccilla and Pulcheria died in 385. His second wife (but never declared Augusta) was Galla, daughter of the emperor Valentinian I and his second wife Justina. Theodosius and Galla had a son, Gratian, born in 388 and who died young, and a daughter Aelia Galla Placidia (392–450). Placidia was the only child who survived to adulthood and later became an Empress.
The Goths and their allies entrenched in the provinces of Dacia and eastern Pannonia Inferior consumed Theodosious' attention. The Gothic crisis was so dire that his co-Emperor Gratian relinquished control of the Illyrian provinces and retired to Trier in Gaul to let Theodosius operate without hindrance. A major weakness in the Roman position after the defeat at Adrianople was the recruiting of barbarians to fight against other barbarians. In order to reconstruct the Roman Army of the West, Theodosius needed to find able-bodied soldiers and so he turned to the most capable men readily at hand: the barbarians recently settled in the Empire. This caused many difficulties in the battle against barbarians since the newly recruited fighters had little or no loyalty to Theodosius.
After the death of Gratian in 383, Theodosius' interests turned to the Western Roman Empire, for the usurper Magnus Maximus had taken all the provinces of the West except for Italy. This self-proclaimed threat was hostile to Theodosius' interests, since the reigning emperor Valentinian II, Maximus' enemy, was his ally. Theodosius, however, was unable to do much about Maximus due to his still inadequate military capability and he was forced to keep his attention on local matters. However when Maximus began an invasion of Italy in 387, Theodosius was forced to take action.
The armies of Theodosius and Maximus fought at the Battle of the Save in 388, which saw Maximus defeated. Now the de facto ruler of the Western empire as well, Theodosius stayed in Milan until 391 installing his own loyalists in senior positions including the new magister militum of the West, the Frankish general Arbogast. Valentinian II was little more than a figurehead with Arbogast as the true power behind the throne.
Trouble arose again, after Valentinian was found hanging in his room. It was claimed to be a suicide by Arbogast. Arbogast, unable to assume the role of Emperor because of his non-Roman background, elected Eugenius, a former teacher of rhetoric. In January 393, Theodosius gave his son Honorius the full rank of "Augustus" in the West, citing Eugenius' illegitimacy.
Theodosius campaigned against Eugenius. The two armies faced at the Battle of Frigidus in September 394. Theodosius' forces were aided by a natural phenomenon known as the Bora, which produces cyclonic winds. The Bora blew directly against the forces of Eugenius and disrupted the line. Eugenius' camp was stormed, and Eugenius was captured and soon after executed. Thus, Theodosius became the only emperor.
In 392 he became sole Emperor (the last one to claim sole and effective rule over an Empire including the Western provinces). From this moment till the end of his reign in 395, while non-Christians continued to request tolerance, he ordered, authorized, or at least failed to punish, the closure or destruction of many temples, holy sites, images, and objects of piety throughout the Empire. In 393 he issued a comprehensive law that prohibited any public non-Christian religious customs, and was particularly oppressive to Manicheans.
Theodosius died in Milan on 17 January 395 after suffering from a disease involving severe edema. Ambrose organized and managed Theodosius' lying in state in Milan. Ambrose delivered a panegyric titled De Obitu Theodosii before Stilicho and Honorius in which Ambrose praised the suppression of paganism by Theodosius. Theodosius was finally buried in Constantinople on 8 November 395.
- Flavius Theodosius Augustus, also known as Theodosius the Great, was Roman Emperor from 379 to 395. He was the last emperor to rule over both the eastern and the western halves of the Roman Empire. His social transformation was a pivotal, if under-recognized, milestone in European history, it parted with the Roman slavery and inaugurated a feudal society. During his reign, the Goths secured control of Illyricum after the Gothic War, establishing their homeland south of the Danube within the empire's borders. He also issued decrees that effectively made Nicene Christianity the official state church of the Roman Empire.
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