Valentinian III

American  

Or Valentinianus III

noun

1. a.d. 419?–455, emperor of the Western Roman Empire 425–455.

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Valentinian III British  

noun

1. ?419–455 _ad , emperor of the Western Roman Empire (425–455). His government lost Africa to the Vandals. With Pope Leo I he issued (444) an edict giving the bishop of Rome supremacy over the provincial churches

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Valentinian III

Thereupon Ricimer raised to the purple Olybrius, a son-in-law of Valentinian III.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

Honorius died in 423, and was succeeded by Valentinian III.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

An Opilio, probably father of the one here mentioned, was Consul under Valentinian III in 453.

From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Hodgkin, Thomas

He himself was killed by a fall from his horse in 450 a.d., leaving an only daughter, who was married to her cousin Valentinian III.,

From The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles William Chadwick

It was Leo also who induced the western emperor Valentinian III in 455 to order the whole western church to obey the bishop of Rome as the heir to the primacy of Peter.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly