Valentinian III

American  

Or Valentinianus III

noun

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

---

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

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

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 Arthur Edward Romilly Boak

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 Arthur Edward Romilly Boak

Rather irritated than discouraged, he sought in the following year a new opportunity to seize upon Italy, and demanded Honoria, the sister of Valentinian III, in marriage, with half the kingdom as a dowry.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various

During the reign of Valentinian III interest centers about the career of Aetius, “last of the Romans.”

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

The beautiful fourteenth-century door, however, bears above it a relief of that time in which we see Our Lord, S. John Evangelist, Valentinian III.,

From Ravenna, a Study by Edward Hutton

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

---