Empress Galla Placidia of Rome 
Galla Placidia was born in 0390 in Rome, Italy. Galla Placidia's father was Emperor Theodosius Augustus ("the Great") I of Rome and her mother was Galla Justina Valentinia. Her paternal grandfather was General Flavius Theodosius ("the Elder") I of Rome and her paternal grandmother is Thermanis ("the Elder") l'Ainee of Rome; her maternal grandparents were Emperor Valentiniam I of Rome-West and Augusta Justina Flavia. She had a sister named Aelia Galla Placidia. She was the younger of the two children. She had two half-brothers named Flavius Honorius and Arcadius. She died at the age of 60 on November 27th, 0450 in Rome, Italy. She was buried in Chapel of Saints Nazarius and Celsus, Ravenna, Italy.General Notes
Regent for Valentinian III
# Event BEF 1577 Her embalmed body sitting on a chair of cypress wood could be seen through a hole in the back of her tomb. 1
By the time of the sack of Rome in 410, Placidia seems already to have been in Gothic hands. She was carried off with them to Gaul, and in 414 she was married in a Roman wedding ceremony to the Visigothic chieftain Athaulf at Narbonne
Step-sister of Honorius. Captured by Alaric I and held hostage. Married Ataulf, Alaric's successor, but was treated badly when he was murdered. Finaly returned to Honorius 416.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 0300
- b.0325 in Cauca, Spain d.0376 in Carthage, Africa
- b.11 Jan 0346/0347 in Spain d.17 Jan 0394/0395 in Milan
- b.ABT 0320/0326
- b.0390 in Rome, Italy d.27 Nov 0450 in Rome, Italy
- d.0383
- b.0321 in Pannonia, Hungary d.0375 in Illyricum
- b.27 Feb 0271/0272 in Naissus, Moesia d.22 May 0327 in Ankyrona
- b.0317 in Naissa, Nis, Yugoslavia d.0361
- b.0289 in Rome, Italy d.0326
- b.0247 in Pannonia, Yugoslavia d.Jul 0310 in Massilia, Gaul
- b.~ 0293
- b.0252
- b.~ 0367 d.0394
- d.0268
- b.0265 d.0325 in Valerius
- d.0268
- b.Jul 0315
- b.31 Mar 0250 in Illyricum d.25 Jul 0306 in Eboracum (York), Britain
- b.0293 in Rome, Italy d.0330
- b.~ 0342 d.0388 in Thessalonica
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Galla Placidia and Atawulf were married in a religious ceremony about 0404 in Narbonne. They had a son named "the Brave", "Balthas”.
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Children
King Theodorc ("the Brave", "Balthas”) I of the Visigoths
Theodorc, known as "the Brave", "Balthas”, was born about 0405 in Toledo, Visigothic Empire of Spain. He died due to died in the battle of Chalons in 0451 in Chalons.
They had a son named Sigerik.
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