Aelia Eudocia II

Aelia Eudocia. Portrait on a weight (Arkeoloji Müzesi, Istanbul)

Aelia Eudocia (†460): name of an East-Roman empress, wife of Theodosius II.

Relatives

Father: Leontius of Athens
Husband: Theodosius II
Children: Eudoxia III, Flacilla

Life

Born, real name Athenais
Baptized and renamed Aelia Eudocia; she will act most piously
421, 7 June: Marries to Theodosius II (who has accepted advise from his sister Pulcheria)
422: Birth of Eudoxia III
423: Made Augusta; Eudoxia engaged to Valentinian III
Before 431: Birth of Flacilla
437: Eudoxia marries to Valentinian III
438: Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
441: Fall of Cyrus, praefectus urbi, her closest ally
443: Moves to Jerusalem
451: Council of Chalcedon; she continues to support the condemned monophysites
455: Conversion to orthodoxy
460, 20 October: Death

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