Licinia Eudoxia III

Aelia Eudocia (422-after 462): name of an Roman empress, wife of Valentinian III.

Relatives

Father: Theodosius II
Mother: Aelia Eudocia II
First husband: Valentinian III

Daughters: Placidia (married to Olybrius), Eudocia

Second husband: Maximus
Third husband: Huneric

Life

422: Birth
423: Galla Placidia and her young son Valentinian III arrive in Constantinople; Eudoxia engaged to Valentinian; death of Honorius, usurpation of Johannes; Theodosius II recognizes the young Valentinian as emperor in the west
437: Valentinian marries Eudoxia
439: Made Augusta
450: Makes sure that pope Leo I intervenes in the monophysite controversy
451: Council of Chalcedon; monophysitism condemned
455: Valentinian III killed in Rome
Petronius Maximus usurpes the throne and proposes to Eudoxia III
Petronius is not recognized by the eastern emperor Marcianus, and killed by his soldiers
Rome sacked by the Vandals; Eudoxia and her daughters captured and taken to Africa
The Vandal king Geiseric marries Eudoxia to his son Hunneric
462: Sent to Constantinople

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