biography
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Valentinian III
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in full Flavius Placidius Valentinianus
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| lived:
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| biography:
| Western Roman emperor (425–55), born in Ravenna, Italy, the son of Flavius Constantius (r. as Constantius III in 421) and Galla Placidia. He was put on the throne by Theodosius II, Roman emperor of the East, under the regency of his mother, who ruled the West in his name until 437. Weak and ineffective, it was General Flavius Aëtius who wielded the power. Africa was seized (429) by Gaiseric, king of the Vandals, and the Danubian provinces of Gaul and Italy were overrun (441) by Attila, king of the Huns. Valentinian killed Aëtius in 454, but was himself murdered by two of the general's men. |
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