Licinia Eudoxia (;

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: Λικινία, 422 – c. 493) was a

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, daughter of Eastern Roman Emperor

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. Her husbands included the Western Roman Emperors

Valentinian III Valentinian III ( la, Placidus Valentinianus; 2 July 41916 March 455) was Roman emperor in the West from 425 to 455. Made emperor in childhood, his reign over the Roman Empire was one of the longest, but was dominated by powerful generals vying ...

and

Petronius Maximus Petronius Maximus ( 39731 May 455) was Roman emperor of the West for two and a half months in 455. A wealthy senator and a prominent aristocrat, he was instrumental in the murders of the Western Roman ''magister militum'', Aëtius, and the W ...

Family

Eudoxia was born in 422, the daughter of

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and his consort

Aelia Eudocia Aelia Eudocia Augusta (; grc-gre, Αιλία Ευδοκία Αυγούστα; 401460 AD), also called Saint Eudocia, was an Eastern Roman empress by marriage to Emperor Theodosius II (r. 408–450), and a prominent Greek historical figure in ...

, a woman of

origin. Her only known siblings, Arcadius and Flacilla, predeceased their parents. Their paternal grandparents were

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and

Aelia Eudoxia Aelia Eudoxia (; ; died 6 October 404) was a Roman empress consort by marriage to the Roman emperor Arcadius. The marriage was the source of some controversy, as it was arranged by Eutropius, one of the eunuch court officials, who was attempti ...

. Their maternal grandfather was Leontius, a

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from

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. The identity of her maternal grandfather was first given by

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later gave a more detailed account of her mother Eudocia's history, which is also summarised in

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. The identity of Eudoxia's maternal grandmother is not recorded.

First marriage

In 424, Eudoxia was betrothed to

, her first cousin, once removed. The year of their betrothal was recorded by

Marcellinus Comes Marcellinus Comes (Greek: Μαρκελλίνος ό Κόμης, died c. 534) was a Latin chronicler of the Eastern Roman Empire. An Illyrian by birth, he spent most of his life at the court of Constantinople. His only surviving work, the ''Chronicl ...

. At the time of their betrothal, Valentinian was approximately four years old, Eudoxia only two.Ralph W. Mathisen, "Valentinian III (425–455 A.D)"
/ref> Gibbon attributes the betrothal to "the agreement of the three females who governed the Roman world", meaning

Galla Placidia Galla Placidia (388–89/392–93 – 27 November 450), daughter of the Roman emperor Theodosius I, was a mother, tutor, and advisor to emperor Valentinian III, and a major force in Roman politics for most of her life. She was List of Visigothi ...

, her niece Pulcheria, and Pulcheria's sister-in-law Eudocia. Galla Placidia was Valentinian III's mother and a younger, paternal half-sister of Arcadius. Valentinian III was at the time being prepared to claim the throne of the

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, which was held by

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. The latter was not a member of the

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and thus regarded a

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by the Eastern court. Within 424, Valentinian was proclaimed a

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in the Eastern court. The following year, Joannes was defeated and executed. Valentinian replaced him as

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of the West. Eudoxia and Valentinian III married on 29 October 437, in Thessalonike, their marriage marking the reunion of the two halves of the

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. The marriage was recorded by

, the

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and

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, vol. 2 In 439, Eudoxia was granted the title of ''Augusta'', with the birth of their first daughter

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. They also had a second daughter,

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.Ralph W. Mathisen, "Licinia Eudoxia"
/ref> The births and eventual fates of the two daughters were recorded by

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and the Chronicon Paschale. On 16 March 455, Valentinian III was killed in the

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by Optila and Thraustila. According to the fragmentary chronicle of John of Antioch, a 7th-century monk tentatively identified with

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, Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch from 641 to 648 "Maximus, failing in both his hopes, was bitterly angry. He summoned Optila and Thraustila, brave

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who had campaigned with Aëtius and had been assigned to attend on Valentinian, and talked to them. He gave and received guarantees, put the blame for Aëtius' murder on the Emperor, and urged that the better course would be to take revenge on them. Those who avenged the fallen man, he said, would justly have the greatest blessings. Not many days later, Valentinian rode in the Field of Ares with a few bodyguards and the followers of Optila and Thraustila. When he had dismounted from his horse and proceeded to archery, Optila and his friends attacked him. Optila struck Valentinian on his temple and when turned around to see the striker he dealt him a second blow on the face and felled him, and Thraustila slew Heraclius. Taking the Emperor's diadem and horse, they hastened to Maximus... "(John of Antioch fr.201.4–5: Gordon trans., pp. 52–53). Heraclius is identified as "a eunuch who had the greatest influence with the emperor" and his associate in murdering Aetius.Ralph W. Mathisen, Petronius Maximus (17 March 455 – 22 May 455)
/ref>

Second marriage

Valentinian had no male descendants and had never designated an heir. Several candidates claimed the throne.

, who was the highest-ranking of all Roman senators, was among them. A second candidate was Maximianus, son of Domninus. Domninus was a merchant from

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who had earned a considerable fortune. Maximianus had served as a domesticus, member of an elite

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of the late Roman Empire, under Aetius. Eudoxia promoted her own candidate, in the person of

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. John of Antioch reports that Maximus secured his own succession by buying the loyalties of palace officials and the local military. Eudoxia was forced to marry him or face execution. Their marriage secured the connection of Maximus to the Theodosian dynasty.

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reports that Maximus befriended the murderers of Valentinian III instead of punishing them. Both Prosper and Victor of Tonnena place the marriage of Eudoxia to Maximus only days following the death of her first husband, commenting with disapproval that the empress was not given a period to grieve for Valentinian. John of Antioch mentions, but does not name, a previous wife of Maximus. She had reportedly been

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d by Valentinian III, an event which the chronicle sees as the reason Maximus turned against his former master. The eventual fate of his first wife is not recorded. She may be presumed to have committed suicide, following the example of

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. Regardless, Maximus arranged the marriage of his son Palladius to his new stepdaughter Eudocia, the daughter of Eudoxia from her first marriage, again to secure a dynastic relation to the Theodosian dynasty. The historical study ''"Fifth-century Gaul: A Crisis of Identity?"'' (1992) by John Drinkwater and Hugh Elton considers it likely that the first wife of Maximus was also a sister to

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, his ''

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'' (Master of Soldiers). The writers have also suggested that Flavius Magnus was another son of Maximus from his first marriage, considering Flavius Probus to be a grandson. They also argue for placing the marriage of Placidia the Younger to

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at this point, considering it to be the third marriage between a member of the Theodosian dynasty and a member of the extended Anicii family within the same year. They view Olybrius as a third son of Maximus, grandson through him of

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and grand-nephew of

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. However, considering the other possible filiation of Flavius Magnus given by

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. ''Continuite Gentilice et Continuite Familiale Dans Les Familles Senatoriales Romaines A L'epoque Imperiale, Mythe et Realite'', Addenda I - III (juillet 2000- octobre 2002) (n.p.: Prosopographica et Genealogica, 2002). as well as the lack of the name of Flavius Probus' mother, it can be assumed that he was a grandson of Petronius Maximus but from his mother. Maximus appointed Avitus as his ''Magister militum praesentalis'' ("Master of Soldiers in Attendance") and send him to

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. There Avitus was to try to secure the loyalty of

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of the

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to the new emperor. However his reign was to prove short. According to the chronicler Malchus, "Around this time, the empress Eudoxia, the widow of the emperor Valentinian and the daughter of the emperor Theodosius and Eudocia, remained unhappily at Rome and, enraged at the tyrant Maximus because of the murder of her spouse, she summoned the

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, king of

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, against Maximus, who was ruling Rome. He came suddenly to Rome with his forces and captured the city, and having destroyed Maximus and all his forces, he took everything from the palace, even the bronze statues. He even led away as captives surviving senators, accompanied by their wives; along with them he also carried off to

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in Africa the empress Eudoxia, who had summoned him; her daughter Placidia, the wife of the patrician Olybrius, who then was staying at Constantinople; and even the maiden Eudocia. After he had returned, Gaiseric gave the younger Eudocia, a maiden, the daughter of the empress Eudoxia, to his son

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in marriage, and he held them both, the mother and the daughter, in great honor" (Chron. 366). Eudoxia was presumably following the example of her sister-in-law

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who had summoned

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for help against an unwanted marriage. According to Prosper, Maximus was in Rome when the Vandals arrived. He gave anyone who could permission to flee the city. He attempted to flee himself but was assassinated by the imperial slaves. He had reigned for seventy-seven days. His body was thrown into the

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and never recovered. Victor of Tonnena agrees, adding the detail that

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negotiated with Geiseric for the security of the city's population.

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attributes the assassination to revolting troops of the

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, enraged at Maximus' attempted flight. The

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attributes the assassination to a rioting crowd.

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identifies a single assassin as "Ursus, a Roman soldier". Ursus is

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for "

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makes a cryptic comment regarding a Burgundian whose "traitorous leadership" led the crowd to panic and to the slaughter of the Emperor. His identity is unknown, presumably a general who failed to face the Vandals for one reason or the other. Later historians have suggested two high-ranking Burgundians as possible candidates,

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and his brother Chilperic. Both joined Theodoric II in invading

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later in 455.

Widow

The three women stayed prisoners in

for seven years. In 462,

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, Eastern Roman Emperor paid a large ransom for Eudoxia and her daughter Placidia. Eudoxia returned to

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after an absence of twenty-five years, Placidia joining her. Eudocia stayed in Africa and took

as her husband. They were parents to

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, king of the Vandals from 523 to 530.

References

Bibliography

* * ** , in
Genealogical profileValentinian III in the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire

External links

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