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Eudoxia Flavia Pacidia de Rome
- Preferred Name: Eudoxia Flavia Pacidia de Rome[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
- Gender: F
- FSID: LYX5-X3D
- Birth: 439 in Roma, Lazio, Italy, Roman Empire at LATI: N1.903 LONG: E2.4963
- Death: 530 in North Africa at LATI: N30 LONG: E6
- Notes:
=== igi mrs. Huneric daughter of Theoderid p ===
igi mrs. Huneric daughter of Theoderid princess of visigoths
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=== https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aelia_Eudocia ===
Aelia Eudocia Augusta (/ˈiːliə juːˈdoʊʃə ɔːˈɡʌstə/; Late Greek: Αἰλία Εὐδοκία Αὐγούστα; c. 401 – 460 AD), also called Saint Eudocia, was a Greek Eastern Roman Empress by marriage to Byzantine emperor Theodosius II (r. 402–450).
Eudocia lived in a world where Greek paganism and Christianity existed side by side, with both pagans and non-orthodox Christians being persecuted.
Although Eudocia's work has been mostly ignored by modern scholars, her poetry and literary work are emblematic of how her Christian faith and Greek heritage were intertwined.
Aelia Eudocia was born circa 400 in Athens into a family of Greek descent.Her father, a Greek philosopher named Leontius, taught rhetoric at the Academy of Athens, where people from all over the Mediterranean came to either teach or learn. Eudocia's given name was Athenais, chosen by her parents in honour of the city's protector, the pagan goddess Pallas Athena. Her father was rich and had a magnificent house on the Acropolis with a large courtyard in which young Athenais frequently played as a child.
When Athenais was 12 years old, her mother died and she became her father's comfort, taking on the responsibilities of household chores, raising her siblings and tending to her father. She had two brothers, Gessius and Valerius, who would later receive honours at court from their sister and brother-in-law. In return for her household activities, her father spent time giving her a thorough training in rhetoric, literature and philosophy. He taught her the Socratic virtue of knowledge of moderation, and predicted that she would have a great destiny.[9] She had a gift for memorisation, and easily learned the poetry of Homer and Pindar, which her father would recite to her. Both as a teacher and a role model, he had a great impact on her, prepared her for her destiny and influenced the literary work she created after she became Empress.
When he died in 420, she was devastated. In his will, he left all his property to her brothers, with only 100 coins reserved for her, saying that "[s]ufficient for her is her destiny, which will be the greatest of any woman."Athenais had been her father's confidante and had expected more than this meager 100-coin inheritance. She begged her brothers to be fair and give her an equal share of their father's property, but they refused.
Shortly after her father's death, at the age of 20, Athenais went to live with her aunt, who advised her to go to Constantinople and "ask for justice from the Emperor", confident she would receive her fair share of her father's wealth.
Preferred Parents:
Father: Flavius Placidus Valentinianus Emperor of the Western Roman Empire III, b. 2 JUL 419 in Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Roman Empire d. 16 MAR 455 in Campus Martius, Rome, Italy, Roman Empire
Mother: Licinia Eudoxia Princess of the Eastern Roman Empire, b. 422 in Constantinople, Anatolia, Byzantium d. 493 in Constantinople, Anatolia, Byzantium
Family 1: Huneric King of the Vandals and Alans, b. 425 in Andalusia, Spain d. 23 DEC 484 in Carthage, Tunisia, Kingdom of the Vandals
Family 2: Paladius , d. 455 in Roma, Lazio, Italy, Roman Empire
- m. 455 in Roma, Lazio, Italy, Roman Empire
Family 3: Flavius Anicius Olybrius Emperor of the West, b. ABT 430 in Roma, Italy, Roman Empire d. 2 NOV 472 in Roma, Lazio, Italy, Roman Empire
- Juliana di Anicii, b. ABT 461 in Roma, Lazio, Italy d. 528 in Constantinople, Anatolia, Byzantine Empire
Sources:
- Title: Placidia the Younger
Author: https://www.geni.com/people/Placidia-the-Younger/6000000007150647331
Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/Placidia-the-Younger/6000000007150647331;
Page: This is the source
- Title: Wikipedia Entry for Anicius Olybrius
Author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olybrius#cite_note-drinkwater_119-3
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olybrius#cite_note-drinkwater_119-3;
Note: Anicius Olybrius[1] (died 2 November 472) was Roman emperor from July 472 until his death later that same year; his rule as augustus in the western Roman Empire was not recognised as legitimate by the ruling augustus in the eastern Roman Empire, Leo I (r. 457–474). He was in reality a puppet ruler raised to power by Ricimer, the magister militum of Germanic descent, and was mainly interested in religion, while the actual power was held by Ricimer and his nephew Gundobad.
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Olybrius married Placidia, younger daughter of western augustus Valentinian III (r. 425–455) and his wife Licinia Eudoxia, thus creating a bond between a member of the senatorial aristocracy and the conjoined Valentinianic–Theodosian dynasties. The year of their wedding is not recorded, although the historian Priscus implies it took place before the Vandals under Gaiseric's sack of Rome (June 2–16, 455).[4] Oost has pointed out that in his chronicle Hydatius wrote Placidia was unmarried as of 455.[5]
- Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
Note: Emperor Valentinian & his wife had two children:
i) EUDOXIA . The Chronicon Paschale names "Eudociam et Placidiam" as the two daughters of "Valentinianus junior Augustus" and his wife "Eudoxia filia Theodosii et Eudocæ Augustæ"[125]. The Chronicon of Bishop Idatius records that Maximus arranged the marriage of “filio suo ex priore coniuge Palladio” and “Valentiniani filiam” in 455[126]. After the death of her father, his successor forced Eudoxia to marry his son, but she was captured by Genseric King of the Vandals during his attack on Rome and taken back to north Africa with her mother and sister[127]. The primary source which records her first marriage has not so far been identified. Procopius names "Eudocia and Placidia" as children of "Eudoxia…and Valentinian", recording that Eudocia was married to Huneric, the older son of Gaiseric, while the other was the wife of Olybrius, a Roman senator[128]. The Victoris Tonnennensis Epsicopi Chronicon records that "Hugnericus" married "Valentiniani filiam" who had been abducted from Rome in captivity[129]. The Chronicon of Bishop Idatius records that one daughter of Valentinian married “Gentoni Gaiserici filio” and the other “Olybrio Senatori Urbis Romæ”[130]. m firstly PALADIUS, son of Emperor PETRONIUS MAXIMUS & his first wife --- (-[murdered May 455]). m secondly ([455]) as his second wife, HUNERIC, son of GENSERIC King of the Vandals (-484).
- Title: Wikipedia - Eudocia, daughter of Valentinian III
Author: Sources Evagrius Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical History Marcellinus Comes, Chronicon Hydatius, Chronicon Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos, Ecclesiastical History Procopius, de Bello Vandalico Theophanes the Confessor, Chronographia
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudocia_(daughter_of_Valentinian_III);
Note: Eudocia /juːˈdoʊʃə/ or Eudoxia /juːˈdɒkʃə/ (439 – 466/474?) was the eldest daughter of Roman emperor Valentinian III and his wife, Licinia Eudoxia. She was thus the granddaughter on her mother's side of Eastern emperor Theodosius II and his wife, the poet Aelia Eudocia; and on her father's side of Western emperor Constantius III and his wife Galla Placidia.
Biography
In the mid-440s, at age five, Eudocia was betrothed to Huneric, son of the Vandal king Gaiseric (and then a hostage in Italy). This engagement served to improve relations between the Western court and the Vandal kingdom in Africa. Their marriage did not take place at this time, however, because Eudocia was not yet of age.
Eudocia's father was assassinated in 455, and his successor, Petronius Maximus, compelled Eudocia's mother to marry him and Eudocia herself to marry his son, Palladius. In response, the Vandals (reportedly at the request of Eudocia's mother) invaded Italy and captured Eudocia, her mother, and her younger sister, Placidia. After seven years, Eudocia's mother and sister were sent to Constantinople, while Eudocia remained in Africa and married Huneric c. 460. They had a son, Hilderic, who reigned as king of the Vandals, from 523 to 530.
At some time following the birth of Hilderic, Eudocia withdrew to Jerusalem due to religious differences with her Arian husband. She died there and was buried in the sepulcher of her grandmother, Aelia Eudocia.
- Title: Eudocia (daughter of Valentinian III)
Author: "Eudocia (daughter of Valentinian III)." Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudocia_(daughter_of_Valentinian_III). Accessed 26 Mar. 2023.
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudocia_(daughter_of_Valentinian_III);
Note: Source created by RecordSeek.com
Page: Attached by RecordSeek
- Title: The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 24 edited by Arthur Cayley Headlam (Bishop of Gloucester)
Author: https://books.google.com/books?id=m3s3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq=Leontius+of+Athens&source=bl&ots=IY8c5rbNEN&sig=Dc5Iu6edJsxSmjbVJ_k8AGergSE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjGuISf_7PbAhWrIzQIHR7mCpEQ6AEIVjAH#v=onepage&q=Leontius%20of%20Athens&f=false
Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=m3s3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq=Leontius+of+Athens&source=bl&ots=IY8c5rbNEN&sig=Dc5Iu6edJsxSmjbVJ_k8AGergSE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjGuISf_7PbAhWrIzQIHR7mCpEQ6AEIVjAH#v=onepage&q=Leontius%20of%20Athens&f=false;
- Title: Find a Grave
Publication: Name: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93124861/aelia-eudocia-augusta;
Note: Bio at Find a Grave
Aelia Eudocia Augusta was born about 401 and died 460. She was the wife of Theodosius II, East Roman Emperor.
She was the daughter of the sophist Leontius, from whom she received a thorough training in literature and rhetoric. The traditional story is that she had been deprived of her small patrimony by the rapacity of her brothers, and sought redress at court in Constantinople. Her accomplishments attracted the attention of Theodosius' sister Pulcheria, who made her one of her ladies-in-waiting and groomed her to be the emperor's wife. After receiving baptism and discarding her former name Athenais, for that of Aelia Licinia Eudocia, she was married to Theodosius on June 7, 421; two years later, after the birth of her daughter Licinia Eudoxia, she received the title Augusta. The new empress repaid her brothers by making Valerius a consul and later governor of Thrace and the other, Gesius, prefect of Illyricum. In the years 438-439 she made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and brought back several precious relics; during her stay at Antioch she addressed the senate of that city in Hellenic style and distributed funds for the repair of its buildings. On her return her position was undermined by the jealousy of Pulcheria and the groundless suspicion of an intrigue with her protégé Paulinus, the master of the offices.
In 440 she retired to Jerusalem, where she was accused of the murder of an officer sent to kill two of her followers, for which act she suffered the loss of some of her imperial staff. Nevertheless she retained great influence; although involved in the revolt of the Syrian Monophysites (453), she was ultimately reconciled to Pulcheria and readmitted into the Orthodox Church. She died at Jerusalem on October 20, 460, having devoting her last years to literature.
- Title: Fifth-century Gaul: A Crisis of Identity?" (1992) pgs 112-113
Author: digital image pdf of the text
Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=lHGOvpQfFqcC&q=probus#v=snippet&q=probus&f=false;
Note: This source is an academic work which also cites historical records. The contained family tree record indicates that her name was Proba by virtue of being the daughter of Probus. She would almost certainly have "Proba" as part of her name. Probiana is implied because her son's name is Petronius Probianus-- the masculine of Probiana. Which would be a possible family name. It is also a name given in one of the family tree databases.
It is also possible that her name was Probiana and not Proba, but there seem to be several genealogical databases that cite a daughter of Probus being Proba and not Probiana.
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