Valentinian III

Names:

• 2 July 419: Flavius Placidius Valentinianus 
• 424: Valentinianus Caesar
• 23 October 425: Valentinianus Augustus
• 16 March 455: murdered by Petronius Maximus

Relatives:

• father: Constantius III
• mother: Galla Placidia (daughter of Theodosius I)
• wife: Eudoxia III (daughter of Theodosius II)
• children: Placidia (married to Olybrius), Eudocia

• 423 Galla Placidia and her young son Valentinian III arrive in Constantinople; Eudoxia and Valentinian engaged; death of Honorius, usurpation of Johannes; Theodosius II immediately recognizes Valentinian as emperor in the west
• 425 Consul (with Theodosius II consul XI); Johannes killed by East-Roman troops; he is succeeded by Valentinian; the real ruler is Galla Placidia; laws to reorganize education; Jews expelled from the army in Gaul
• 426 Consul II (with Theodosius II consul XII)
• 428 The Vandals, led by Gaiseric, leave Andalusia
• 429 Vandal invasion of Africa
• 430 Consul III (with Theodosius II consul XIII)
• 432 The East-Roman general Aspar unsuccessfully tries to push back the Vandals
• 435 Consul IV (with Theodosius II consul XV)
• 437 Valentinian marries Eudoxia; retirement of Galla Placidia
• 439 Codex Theodosianus in force in the west; Vandals take Carthage; Jews expelled from the army
• 440 Consul V (with Anatolius); Vandals occupy Sicily; the Huns start to raid the Balkans
• 445 Consul VI (with Flavius Nomus); Edict against the Manichaeans
• 446 Theodosius II pays Attila, who turns to the west
• 450 Consul VII (with Gennadius Avienus); In the east, Marcianus succeeds Theodosius II; death of Galla Placidia
• 451 The Huns cross the Rhine, invade Gaul, sack Metz; Atilla is defeated by Aetius near Troyes
• 452 The Huns invade Italy; siege and sack of Aquileia; pope Leo persuades Atilla to return
• 453 Death of Attila
• 454 Aetius assassinated; Ostrogoths settled in Pannonia
• 455 Consul VIII (with Flavius Procopius Anthemius); Valentinian III killed in Rome

Contemporary events:

• 426 Augustine, City of God
• 430 Death of Augustine
• 431 Third Ecumenical Council, at Ephesus; Nestorianism condemned
• 434 Attila and Bleda gain control of the tribes of the Hun
• 445 Attila kills Bleda
• 449 Death of Hilary of Arles