Theodosius Flavius I van het Oosten

• Birth Notes
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    Keizer van het Oost-Romijse rijk (378-394); keizer van het gehele Romijnse Rijk (394-395).
    Emperor 379-395. His parents were probably already Christians when Theodosius grew up in Spain. Although he did not receive an extensive education, he was open-minded and had a special interest in the study of history.
    While on his father's staff, he participated in his campaigns against the Picts and Scots in Britain in 368-369,
    against the Alemanni in Gaul in 370, and against the Sarmatians in the Balkans in 372-373. However, after his
    father's execution, he withdrew to his Spanish estates and, at the end of 376, married Aelia Flacilla. In 377 their son, the future Emperor Arcadius, was born followed in 378, by a daughter, Pulcheria, and in 384 the future Emperor Honorius. In 378,the Eastern Emperor Valens was killed in a catastrophic defeat by the Visigoths. The Western Emperor Gratian then summoned Theodosius to his court. After defeating the Sarmatians, Theodosius was proclaimed co-emperor on 19 January 379 and ruled the provinces of Dacia (Romania) and Macedonia. In 388 Theodosius punished orthodox fanatics who had set fire to a synagogue and to the shrine of a sect, which caused a conflict between him and Bishop Ambrose. The Bishop required him to do public penanceto which, as a devout Christian, Theodosius acceded, but only after pointing out that he was not willing to grant the Bishop greater. In February 391 he prohibited pagan sacrifices and the visiting of temples. Quarrels between his second wife, Galla,and his son Arcadius, as well as his own view of the eastern capital as the centreof the empire, prompted Theodosius to move his residence back to Constantinople in November 391. On 15 May 392 the young Emperor of the West, Valentinian, died and Eugenius, who had close connections with pagans, was proclaimed Emperor of the West. It took until 394 before Theodosius was able to set out with his army and defeat Eugenius.
    However, the exertion had been too much for him so that Theodosius became ill and died on 17January 395.
    Theodosius was the son of the famous general Flavius Theodosius and was born in Spain. As a young man, he often accompanied his father in the British campaigns, but when he later died Theodosius retired to Spain. When the Roman Emperor Valens in theEast died in 378, his co-Emperor Gratian in the West appointed Theodosius to rule the East as Emperor. In 382, Theodosius finally compromised with the invading Visigoths that they could remain in the Empire as long as they served in the army.
    When the Roman Emperor Gratian died in 383, Theodosius recognized the usurper Maximus as Emperor in the West with the exception of Italy, where Valentinian II ruled as Emperor. In 388, Maximus attacked Theodosius, however Theodosius defeated and killed him, returning sole rule fo the West to his co-Emperor Valentinian. In 392, Valentinian's general Arbogast killed the Western Emperor and gave the crown to Eugenius as a puppet ruler in his place. Theodosius marched to Italy and defeated the two pretenders in 394, becoming the first sole Roman Emperor since the Emperor Jovian died in 364. He formally divided the Roman Empire on his death permanently into two separate, independent empires of the West and the East. He was succeeded by his sonsArcadius and Honorius to the East and West respectively.

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• General Notes
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