• General Notes

  [SUSANNA KEENE.FTW]
  
  REF: Chronology of Early Byzantine History:  After the disaster
  of Adrianople, Gratian selected Theodosius as emperor in the
  East; Theodosius was the son of a general of Spanish
  extraction. He was a capable soldier and a good administrator.
  He was a convinced Christian, apparently someone who really
  believed in all that the theories of Eusebius entailed. He was
  also orthodox and at the Council of Constantinople in 381 he
  virtually put an end to Arianism, a doctrine which had
  dominated the East for the past fifty years.  Theodosius moved
  ardently against both pagans and heretics and most would date
  the establishment of Christianity as the state religion to his
  reign. After the death of Gratian, Theodosius became involved
  in the West, and by the time of his death he ruled the whole of
  an undivided empire-- the last emperor to do so.

Details of Theodosius I the Great's family