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Flavius Theodosius (10 April, 401
401

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 – July 28, 450
450

For the area code, see Area code 450....
), called the Calligrapher, known in English as Theodosius II, was an Byzantine Emperor (reign 408-450), mostly known for the law code bearing his name, the Codex Theodosianus
Codex Theodosianus

The Codex Theodosianus was a compilation of the Roman law of the Roman Empire under the Christian emperors since 312. A commission was established by Theodosius II in 429 and the compilation was published in the eastern half of the Roman Empire in 438....
, and the Theodosian Walls
Walls of Constantinople

The Walls of Constantinople are a series of stone walls that have surrounded and protected the city of Constantinople since its founding as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire by Constantine the Great....
 of Constantinople
Constantinople

Constantinople was the empire capital of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine Empire , the Latin Empire , and the Ottoman Empire . Strategically located between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe meets Asia, Byzantine Constantinople had been the capital of a Christendom empire, successor to ancient ancient Greece...
 (modern-day Istanbul
Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, and List of cities proper by population in the world with a population of 12.6 million....
) built during his reign.

Life
The eldest son of Aelia Eudoxia
Aelia Eudoxia

Aelia Eudoxia was the Empress consort of the Byzantine Empire emperor Arcadius....
 and Byzantine Emperor Arcadius
Arcadius

Flavius Arcadius was Roman Emperors in the Eastern half of the Roman Empire from 395 until his death.Arcadius was born in Spain, the elder son of Theodosius I and Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of Flavius Augustus Honorius, who would become a Western Roman Emperor....
, Theodosius was heavily influenced by his eldest sister Pulcheria
Pulcheria

Aelia Pulcheria was the daughter of the List of Byzantine Emperors Arcadius and Aelia Eudoxia.As the elder sister of Theodosius II, she held much of the power when he came to the throne as a child in 408....
, who pushed him towards Trinitarianism
Trinity

In Christianity doctrine, the Trinity is the unity of God the Father, God the Son, and Holy Spirit as three persons in monotheism. The doctrine states that God is the Triune God, existing as three persons, or in the Greek hypostasis , but one being....
.






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Flavius Theodosius (10 April, 401
401

Sorry, no overview for this topic
 – July 28, 450
450

For the area code, see Area code 450....
), called the Calligrapher, known in English as Theodosius II, was an Byzantine Emperor (reign 408-450), mostly known for the law code bearing his name, the Codex Theodosianus
Codex Theodosianus

The Codex Theodosianus was a compilation of the Roman law of the Roman Empire under the Christian emperors since 312. A commission was established by Theodosius II in 429 and the compilation was published in the eastern half of the Roman Empire in 438....
, and the Theodosian Walls
Walls of Constantinople

The Walls of Constantinople are a series of stone walls that have surrounded and protected the city of Constantinople since its founding as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire by Constantine the Great....
 of Constantinople
Constantinople

Constantinople was the empire capital of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine Empire , the Latin Empire , and the Ottoman Empire . Strategically located between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe meets Asia, Byzantine Constantinople had been the capital of a Christendom empire, successor to ancient ancient Greece...
 (modern-day Istanbul
Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, and List of cities proper by population in the world with a population of 12.6 million....
) built during his reign.

Life


The eldest son of Aelia Eudoxia
Aelia Eudoxia

Aelia Eudoxia was the Empress consort of the Byzantine Empire emperor Arcadius....
 and Byzantine Emperor Arcadius
Arcadius

Flavius Arcadius was Roman Emperors in the Eastern half of the Roman Empire from 395 until his death.Arcadius was born in Spain, the elder son of Theodosius I and Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of Flavius Augustus Honorius, who would become a Western Roman Emperor....
, Theodosius was heavily influenced by his eldest sister Pulcheria
Pulcheria

Aelia Pulcheria was the daughter of the List of Byzantine Emperors Arcadius and Aelia Eudoxia.As the elder sister of Theodosius II, she held much of the power when he came to the throne as a child in 408....
, who pushed him towards Trinitarianism
Trinity

In Christianity doctrine, the Trinity is the unity of God the Father, God the Son, and Holy Spirit as three persons in monotheism. The doctrine states that God is the Triune God, existing as three persons, or in the Greek hypostasis , but one being....
. Pulcheria was the primary driving power behind the emperor and many of her views became official policy. These included her anti-Semitic view which resulted in the destruction of synagogue
Synagogue

A synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer.Synagogues usually have a large hall for prayer , smaller rooms for study and sometimes a social hall and offices....
s. He ordered the execution of Gamaliel VI
Gamaliel VI

Gamaliel VI was the last Nasi of the ancient Jewish Sanhedrin. He was executed in 425 at the orders of the Eastern Roman Empire Theodosius II for authorizing the building of new synagogues....
, the Nasi
Nasi

Nasi? is a Hebrew language title meaning prince, in Biblical Hebrew, or president, in Hebrew_language#Modern_Israeli_Hebrew....
 of the Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish Sanhedrin
Sanhedrin

The Sanhedrin was an assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every city in the Land of Israel.The Great Sanhedrin was the supreme court of ancient Israel....
 in 425 for authorising the building of new synagogues, and abolished the office.

On the death of his father Arcadius in 408, Theodosius became emperor. Because of his minority however, real power was exercised by the praetorian prefect of the East
Praetorian prefecture of the East

The praetorian prefecture of the East or of Oriens was one of four large praetorian prefectures into which the Late Roman Empire was divided....
 Anthemius
Anthemius (praetorian prefect)

Flavius Anthemius was a high-ranking official of the late Roman Empire. He is notable as a Praetorian prefecture of the East and effective regent of the Eastern Roman Empire during the later reign of Arcadius and the first years of Theodosius II, as well as for the construction of the first set of the famous Walls of Constantinople#The Theodo...
 until his dismissal in 413. It was under Anthemius' supervision that the Theodosian land walls
Walls of Constantinople

The Walls of Constantinople are a series of stone walls that have surrounded and protected the city of Constantinople since its founding as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire by Constantine the Great....
 of Constantinople were constructed.

In June 421, Theodosius married the poet Aelia Eudocia
Aelia Eudocia

Aelia Eudocia Augusta , wife of Theodosius II, Byzantine Emperors, was born in Athens.She was the daughter of the sophist Leontius, from whom she received a thorough training in literature and rhetoric....
. They had a daughter, Licinia Eudoxia
Licinia Eudoxia

Licinia Eudoxia was a Roman Emperors, daughter of Eastern Emperor Theodosius II and wife of the Western Emperors Valentinian III and Petronius Maximus....
, whose marriage with the Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III
Valentinian III

Flavius Placidus Valentinianus , known in English as Valentinian III, was among the last Western Roman Emperors ....
 marked the re-unification of the two halves of the Empire, even if for a short time. Theodosius created the University of Constantinople
University of Constantinople

The University of Constantinople, sometimes known as the University of the palace hall of Magnaura in the Byzantine Empire was recognised as a University in 848, although it had been founded in 425 and is considered by several scholars to be the first university in the world....
, and died in 450 as the result of a riding accident.

Theodosius' Law Code

In 429, Theodosius appointed a commission to collect all of the laws since the reign of Constantine I
Constantine I

Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus , commonly known in English_language as Constantine I, Constantine the Great, or Saint Constantine , was Roman Emperor from 306, and the undisputed holder of that office from 324 until his death in 337....
, and create a fully formalized system of law. This plan was left unfinished, but the work of a second commission that met in Constantinople, assigned to collect all of the general legislations and bring them up to date was completed, and their collection published as the Codex Theodosianus
Codex Theodosianus

The Codex Theodosianus was a compilation of the Roman law of the Roman Empire under the Christian emperors since 312. A commission was established by Theodosius II in 429 and the compilation was published in the eastern half of the Roman Empire in 438....
 in 438. The law code of Theodosius II, summarizing edicts promulgated since Constantine, informed a basis for the law code of Emperor Justinian I
Justinian I

Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus , AD 482 or 483 ? 13 or 14 November 565, was the second member of the Justinian Dynasty and List of Roman Emperors from 527 until his death....
 in the following century.

Theodosius Wars


On the death of the Emperor Honorius in 423 AD the primicerius notariorum Joannes
Joannes

Ioannes, known in English as Joannes, was a Roman usurper against Valentinian III.On the death of the Emperor Honorius , Theodosius II, the remaining ruler of the House of Theodosius hesitated in announcing his uncle's death....
 was proclaimed emperor. After some deliberation in 424 Theodosius II began a war against Joannes which ended in May 425 when Valentinian III
Valentinian III

Flavius Placidus Valentinianus , known in English as Valentinian III, was among the last Western Roman Emperors ....
 was installed as Western Emperor.

Much of the next 15 years was peaceful with short Hun raiding attacks. For that peace the Eastern Roman Empire paid tribute to the Huns which amounted to 350 Roman pounds (ca. 114.5 kg) of gold until 435 and 700 Roman pounds after that.

Peace ended in 440 after the fall of Roman Africa to the Vandals. For its reconquest both Eastern and Western Empires sent forces to Sicily
Sicily

Sicily is an Autonomous regions with special statute of Italy. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708 km? and currently has just over five million inhabitants....
 from which they launched attack on Carthage, but this project failed. Seeing the imperial borders without significant forces, the Huns
Huns

The Huns were a confederation of Central Asian Eurasian nomads or semi-nomads, who had established an empire in Eurasia. The Huns may have stimulated the Migration Period, a contributing factor in the collapse of the Roman Empire....
 and Persia declared war. During 443 two Roman armies were defeated and destroyed by the Huns. In the subsequent peace agreement Roman tribute was tripled to 2,100 Roman pounds (ca. 687 kg) in gold after which the Huns withdrew into the interior of their empire.

See also

  • House of Theodosius
  • list of horse accidents
    List of horse accidents

    This is a list of people and fictional characters who had severe injuries, or died from accidents related to horses. Some of the listed accidents had important political and historical consequences, which are given when relevant....


External links

  • (chapter of J. B. Bury
    J. B. Bury

    John Bagnell Bury , known as J.B. Bury, was an eminent Ireland historian, classics, :Category:Byzantinists and philologist....
    's History of the Later Roman Empire)
  • Sections concerning religious observances (English)
  • This shows laws passed by Theodosius II relating to Christianity.