The son of Arcadius, Theodosius the Calligrapher is famous for developing the Codex Theososianus, or the Theodosian law code, an important compilation of Roman law. He founded the University of Constantinople and built the Theodosian Walls that defended that city on its western front. His sister, the influential Pulcheria, served as regent until he was old enough to rule, and succeeded him with her husband Marcian when Theodosius died from injuries sustained in a riding accident in 450.
Born in Spain in about 346, Theodosius was selected by Gratian to assume command of the army, was elevated to Eastern Emperor in 379, and assumed control of both East and West upon the death of his...
The Tetrarchy was devised by Diocletian as a way to insure the smooth transfer of power when an Emperor died. Instead, it was a recipe for civil war. A nephew of Galerius, Maximinus became Caesar in...
Friend of the emperor Galerius, and like him of common birth, Severus II was Western Roman Emperor for a year before fleeing to Ravenna, where he was assassinated.
Magnentius was a military commander in Gaul who rebelled against the Roman emperor Constantius II, removing and killing his junior colleague Constans, in the west. He appears to have had widescale...
The son of the Eastern Roman Emperor Licinius I and Constantia, the half-sister of Western Emperor Constantine the Great, Licinius the Younger served as Caesar to his father s Augustus. As the nephew...
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