Aelia Flaccilla
Aelia Flavia Flaccilla († 386 in Skotumis , Thrace ) was a Roman empress.
Flaccilla was from Hispania . Around 376 she married Theodosius , a respected military man who was also from Spain and who had to retire there after his father was executed. The first son Arcadius was born around 377, and some time later the daughter Aelia Pulcheria.
In 378, Theodosius was raised to the rank of Emperor of the East after the catastrophic battle of Adrianople for the Romans , and Flaccilla was now empress. Her husband honored her in 379 with the title Augusta , with which he nominally equated her with himself as Augustus . In 384 the second son Honorius was born. Pulcheria died as a child.
Flaccilla, who herself was a follower of Nicene Christianity , was considered very pious and benevolent and campaigned against Arianism . A palace in Constantinople , the Palatium Flaccillianum , was named after her while she was still alive . Theodosius also had Flaccilla statues erected in the building of the Senate and in Antioch . Gregory of Nyssa gave her funeral speech.
After her death, Emperor Theodosius I married in 387 Galla , the daughter of Emperor Valentinian I, who died in 375 .
literature
- Anja Busch: The women of the Theodosian dynasty. Power and representation of imperial women in the 5th century (= Historia - individual writings . Volume 237 ). Steiner, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-515-11044-0 , pp. 25–34 ( specialist review by H-Soz-Kult ).
- Kirsten Groß-Albenhausen: Flacilla. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 , Sp. 535.
- Arnold Hugh Martin Jones , John Robert Martindale, John Morris : Aelia Flavia Flaccilla. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1971, ISBN 0-521-07233-6 , pp. 341-342.
- Adolf Lippold : Flaccilla, Aelia. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, column 560.
- Otto Seeck : Flaccilla 3 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 2, Stuttgart 1909, Col. 2431-2433.
Remarks
- ↑ The whole name can be found on an inscription from Aphrodisias in Caria : Hermann Dessau , Inscriptiones Latinae selectae 9466. In another inscription from Ephesus she is called Aelia Flaccilla , in all other sources only Flaccilla , sometimes with the spelling Placcilla .
- ↑ Claudian , Laus Serenae 63-69.
- ↑ Chronicon Paschale sub anno 385; Notitia urbis Constantinopolitanae 12.8.
- ↑ Themistios , Speeches 19,228b.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flaccilla, Aelia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Flaccilla, Aelia Flavia (full name); Flavia Flaccilla, Aelia; Placcilla, Ælia Flaccilla |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | roman empress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 386 |
| Place of death | Scotumis , landscape |