• Placidia (Latin: [plaˈkɪdɪ.a]) was a daughter of Valentinian III, Roman emperor of the West from 425 to 455, and from 454/455 the wife of Olybrius, who...
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    Galla Placidia (392/93 – 27 November 450), daughter of the Roman emperor Theodosius I, was a mother, tutor, and advisor to emperor Valentinian III. She...
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    The Mausoleum of Galla Placidia is a Late Antique Roman building in Ravenna, Italy, built between 425 and 450. It was added to the World Heritage List...
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    both for the Western Roman Empire. He married Honorius's sister Galla Placidia in 417, a sign of his ascendant status, and was proclaimed co-emperor by...
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    formed the Theodosian dynasty (r. 379–457). In turn, their daughter, Galla Placidia married a later emperor, Constantius III (r. 421–421). Their son, Valentinian...
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    Honoria (c. 418 – c. 455) was the daughter of Constantius III and Galla Placidia, as well as the sister of Valentinian III. In her life she had seen her...
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    the Visigoths in Gaul and the Vandals in North Africa. An ally of Galla Placidia, mother and advisor of Valentinian III, Bonifacius engaged in Roman civil...
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    The Placidia Palace was the official residence of the papal apocrisiarius, the ambassador from the pope to the patriarch of Constantinople, and the intermittent...
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    Valentinian III to caesar (undoubtedly influenced by Valentinian's mother Galla Placidia), he knew he could only expect war. Late in 424, he gave to one of his...
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    Rome in 410 and to take Galla Placidia, daughter of Emperor Theodosius I, hostage. After many vicissitudes, Galla Placidia returned to Ravenna with her...
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    Valentinian I. Their daughter was Galla Placidia. The last emperor in the West belonging to the dynasty was Galla Placidia's son Valentinian III. The last emperor...
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    invasions of late antiquity's Migration Period. He was the son of Galla Placidia and Constantius III, and as the great-grandson of Valentinian I (r. 364–375)...
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    Settipani) or, according to some clues, Petronius Maximus. Olybrius married Placidia, younger daughter of western augustus Valentinian III (r. 425–455) and...
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    Galla Placidia Augusta: A biographical essay (Chicago: University Press, 1968), pp. 156f Oost, Galla Placidia Augusta, pp. 157f Oost, Galla Placidia Augusta...
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    carried with him as a respected hostage the emperor's half-sister Galla Placidia, who had long been his captive. Once in Gaul, Athaulf opened negotiations...
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    Galla had a daughter, Honorius's half-sister Galla Placidia. Honorius, Arcadius, and Galla Placidia were the only children of Theodosius to survive into...
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  • Plaça de Gal·la Placídia is a square split between the districts of Gràcia and Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Its exact location...
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    Christ as the Good Shepherd; c. 425–430; mosaic; width: c. 3 m; Mausoleum of Galla Placidia (Ravenna, Italy)...
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    the Roman world", meaning Galla Placidia, her niece Pulcheria, and Pulcheria's sister-in-law Eudocia. Galla Placidia was Valentinian III's mother and...
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  • he is executed. October 23 – Valentinian III, six-year-old son of Galla Placidia, is installed as emperor (Augustus) of the Western Roman Empire. Real power...
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    Valentinian III and his mother Galla Placidia. After fighting against Aspar's army, Aetius managed to compromise with Galla Placidia. He sent back his army of Huns...
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    became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years January 1 – Galla Placidia, half-sister of emperor Honorius, is married to the Visigothic king Ataulf...
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  • apart. Because of this, his mother Galla Placidia is de facto ruling the Empire. Honoria, daughter of Galla Placidia and sister of Valentinian, hopes to get...
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    taken previously by the Vandals. King Ataulf and his pregnant wife Galla Placidia leave Gallia Narbonensis; they relocate at Barcelona. Their infant son...
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    sensing weakness, flatly refused. Alaric moved to Rome and captured Galla Placidia, sister of Honorius. The Senate in Rome, despite its loathing for Alaric...
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    and 25 days; West) Prominent general under Honorius and husband of Galla Placidia, a daughter of Theodosius I. Made co-emperor by Honorius. Emperor in the...
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    hermit, monk and healer who served as the confessor of the Empress Galla Placidia, who lived in Ravenna between 417 and 450. According to the standard hagiography...
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    Western Empire 395–480 Maria Thermantia Galla Placidia Licinia Eudoxia Marcia Euphemia Placidia Julius Nepos's wife Eastern Empire 395–610 Aelia Eudoxia...
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    Rome in Italy Mausoleum of Theodoric in Ravenna, Italy Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna, Italy Mausoleum of Njegoš in Lovćen, Montenegro Wilhelm II...
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  • Galla Placidia Augusta: A biographical essay (Chicago: University Press, 1968), p. 157 Oost, Galla Placidia Augusta, pp. 157f Oost, Galla Placidia Augusta...
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