Valentinian
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Valentinian was the name of several Roman emperors:
- Valentinian IValentinian IValentinian I , also known as Valentinian the Great, was Roman emperor from 364 to 375. Upon becoming emperor he made his brother Valens his co-emperor, giving him rule of the eastern provinces while Valentinian retained the west....
(321–375), Roman Emperor from 364 to 375, son of Gratian the Elder, commonly known as Valentinian the Great - Valentinian IIValentinian IIFlavius Valentinianus , commonly known as Valentinian II, was Roman Emperor from 375 to 392.-Early Life and Accession :...
(371–392), Roman Emperor from 375 to 392 - Valentinian IIIValentinian III-Family:Valentinian was born in the western capital of Ravenna, the only son of Galla Placidia and Flavius Constantius. The former was the younger half-sister of the western emperor Honorius, and the latter was at the time Patrician and the power behind the throne....
(419–455), Western Roman Emperor from 425 to 455
Other
- Valentinian (play)Valentinian (play)Valentinian is a Jacobean era stage play, a revenge tragedy written by John Fletcher was that originally published in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647. The play dramatizes the story of Valentinian III, one of the last of the Roman Emperors, as recorded by the classical historian...
, a Jacobean era stage play - Valentinius, gnostic theologian and founder of Valentinianism, sometimes known as Valentinian
- Valentinian dynastyValentinian DynastyThe Valentinian Dynasty or Valentinianic Dynasty, consisting of four emperors, ruled the Western Roman Empire from 364 to 392 and the Eastern Roman Empire from 364 to 378.*western emperors:**Valentinian I...
, Imperial Roman dynasty founded by Valentinian I
See also
- Valentine (disambiguation), an Anglicization of Valentinian, Valentinus, and Valentinius