35 Flashcards
death of TTG
395- succeded by honorius and arcadius
age of arcadius
17/18
age of honorius
10
death of arcadius
408 succeded by 7yo theodosius 2
end of honorius
423- succeded by 5yo valentinian 3
1/2 sister of arcadius and honorius and mother of valentinian 3
galla placidia
pacidia’s daughter
honoria
daughter of valentinian 3
GP the younger
wife of arcadius
emp. eudoxia
sister of theodosius 2
pulcheria
wife of theodosius 2
eudocia
daughter of theodosius 2 and wife of valentrinian 3
eudoxia
son of a Vandal who had served in the Roman army,
Stilicho
Stilicho’s wife
serena neice of theodosius
Stilicho’s military success under theodosius
magister utriusque militiae, master of both cavalry and infantry, when Theodosius marched west against Arbogast.
rufinus vs stilicho
rufinus is praetorian gaurd of arcadius and dissagrees with stilicho about illyricum stilcho casually shows up captures alaric then gets gainus to kill rufinus and surrender the troops at constantinople
401 aleric
invades italy, causing stilicho to mass divert tropops frm the north
last day of 406
large numbers of Vandals, Suevi,
Alans, and other tribes crossed the frozen Rhine
into Gaul.
Constantine the bad one
commander in brittan who userped power in the west with support from germans
end of stilicho
defeats constantine the aleric invades noricum and requests 4000 pounds of gold silico says ok so jealous senotors spread rumors to honorius who executes him in 408
aleric attacks rome #1
honorius refuses to honor the agreement made by stilicho so aleric seiges rome honorius runs to ravenna’s swamp leading to alric declaring priscus attulus emporer in the west
concessions by attulus
Aleric= magister
utriusque militiae,
Adolph=count of the
domestics.
sack of rome by aleric
august 24 410– aleric and his general sarus sack rome on behalf of honorius afetr betraying attus
death of aleric
at consentia due to travel complications burried under the busentus river
aleric’s successor
adolph
honorius and adolph in 412
they help honorius then he doesnt pay and they seize narbo
end of adolph
chased to spain by constatius(the commander) then assasiated in 415
adoph successor
wallia-
visigth under wallia
helped for a while with the vandals then settled peacefully in gaul untill theodoric became a thing
The Vandals, Alans, and Suevi
made freinds with the romans then beat up by the visigoths and all became vandals under King Gunderic. In 428, Gunderic was succeeded by his able and ambitious brother Gaiseric.
how did valentinian 3 come to power
he is son of constantius the general and galia placida. he was estranged r=from honorius and flead to theodosius the second in the east then when honorius died he replaced the userper john
the affairs in 429
placida, regent of valentinian 3 defeats john who was suported by aetius who had a hunn army. the boniface revolts i africa and is supported by vandals boniface then gets controll of aetius’ land and aetius goes to complain to the huns
attila ascention
443 over the huns
reasons for attilla attacking the west
honoria asked him for help gettig power, gaiseric the vandal asked for him to attack visigoths
mauronic plane
attilla looses to burgundines, franks, visigoths under theodoric, and aetius fight him to a draw
end of attila
pope leo diplomicies, a plauge hits teh hunns and he dies consumating his marriage to the sister of a burgundine king
two groups of franks
ripuarians, and salians
angles, saxons, and jutes
raid and settle in brittan untill the romans finally leave in 442
the vandals in africa
effectively take all of africa eventually being recognized as an independant king dom in 442 afetr conquering almost all of africa
end of aetius
assasinated by a plot lead by the senator petronius maximus in 454
the end of valentinian 3 and ensuing struggle
valentinian sides with olybrius a senator then petronius maximus was blocked from power by heraclius so he murders valentinian and heraclius
vandal sacking of rome
in 455 maximus marries huneric(son of gaiseric)’s match and so gaiseric sacks rome