Eudocia

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Eudocia († 471 / 472 in Jerusalem ) was the daughter Licinia Eudoxias and the Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III. as well as the wife of the later Vandal King Hunerich .

Eudocia was probably born not long before August 6, 439, because her mother Licinia Eudoxia was elevated to Augusta on that day , an honor that could be directly related to the birth of a daughter. She was the granddaughter of the Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius II and Aelia Eudocia , after whom she was named. Her mother had her baptized shortly after she was born.

She was engaged to Hunerich , the son of the Vandal King Geiserich, as early as 442/3 or 445 . However, in 455, after the death of her father Petronius Maximus in Rome, she was married to his son Palladius . When Maximus was overthrown that same year and Geiseric plundered Rome , Eudocia was kidnapped to Africa with her mother and younger sister Placidia . There she was finally married to Hunerich in 456. With this she had a son, Hilderich , who would later become King of the Vandals. After 16 years of marriage, she is said to have fled from her Arian husband to Jerusalem . She died there a little later and was buried in the church of St. Stephen next to her eponymous grandmother.

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  1. ↑ At least that is what Otto Seeck suspects in Eudokia 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, Sp. 912 and Eudoxia 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, Sp. 925 f., Here Sp. 925.
  2. ↑ Merobaudes , carmina 1:19.
  3. ↑ The information differs in the literature: 442/3 in Mischa Meier , Meret Strothmann : Eudokia 2 . In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, column 221; 445 in Adolf Lippold : Eudokia 2. In: Der Kleine Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, Col. 406. See also Merobaudes, carmina 1,17f.
  4. ↑ Dirk Henning: Periclitans res Publica: Empire and Elites in the Crisis of the Western Roman Empire 454 / 5–493 AD Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-515-07485-6 , p. 30 ( online ) suspected, however, with further literature, that instead Eudocia's younger sister Placidia had to marry Palladius.
  5. ↑ Nikephoros 15:12; Theophanes 5964.
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SURNAME Eudocia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of Licinia Eudoxias and the Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III.
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century or 5th century
DATE OF DEATH 471 or 472
Place of death Jerusalem