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  Roman Emperors - DIR Theodosius II
Theodosius II was born to the eastern emperor Arcadius and the empress Aelia Eudoxia in April of 401.
Theodosius' foreign policies centered around three axes: relations with the Persians, the encroachment of the Hun confederation under Rua and later Attila, and the precarious balance of power in the Mediterranean.
Theodosius moved towards greater administrative control by reserving the issuance of grant deeds of imperial lands to the very highest of offices.
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 Count Theodosius: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
Count Theodosius, also known as Flavius Theodosius, a senior military officer serving in the western part of the Roman Empire.
He was sent to Britain in 368 to deal with a barbarian invasion of the Roman provinces in that island, which he dealt with successfully.
After a period of retirement on the family estates in Gallaecia, his son Theodosius was elevated to Emperor January 19, 379.
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 Emperor Theodosius: 346-395
Born in Spain, Flavius Theodosius was the son of Count Flavius Theodosius, a Hispano-Roman general of Valentinian I. The younger Theodosius gained military experience in his father's campaigns in Britain and later became an accomplished military commander on the Danube River.
Theodosius was more moderate towards paganism in his early reign, but eventually he ordered all temples and churches be given over to the authority of Nicene Catholics.
Theodosius was under the influence of Bishop Ambrose of Milan and became closer to the Church.
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 Roman timeline from 364AD to 476AD
Theodosius arrived in 368 with the Batavi, Heruli, Jovii and Victores legions, landing at Richborough, and proceeded to Londinium.
Theodosius was almost defeated and forced to withdraw several times, but in the end Firmus was betrayed and captured by Igmazen, a chieftain of the Isaflenses, who apparently wanted to win the support of Theodosius.
Theodosius the Elder was a senior military officer serving in the Western empire and rose to become the magister equitum praesentalis under the emperor Valentinian I from late 368 until his execution in early 375.
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 Theodosius I - Wikinfo
Theodosius was, briefly, the last ruler of a united Roman Empire - after the division between his heirs it was never again ruled by a single man.
The emperor Gratianus appointed Theodosius Co-augustus for the East in 378 after the death of the emperor Valens at the Battle of Adrianople (378).
Theodosius was raised in a Catholic (to be understood not in the modern sense, but in the non-Arian, "universal" sense) family.
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 Count Theodosius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Flavius Theodosius was a senior military officer serving in the Western Roman Empire.
He was sent to Britannia in 368, to deal with a barbarian invasion of the Roman provinces in that island, which he dealt with successfully.
After a period of retirement on the family estates in Gallicia, his son Theodosius was elevated to Emperor January 19, 379.
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 THEODOSIUS - Online Information article about THEODOSIUS
At the end of the year Theodosius went to Constantinople to be crowned.
day Theodosius' barbarians, engaging with those of the hostile army, were almost destroyed, and the victory seemed to be with Eugenius.
In 383 Theodosius called a new council for the discussion of the true faith.
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 Roman Empire - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Theodosius massacred Thessalonica for rebelling against his new Christian policies condemning homosexuality, which was a common practice in both ancient Greece and Greece under Roman rule.
Theodosius proclaimed his oldest son Arcadius to be an Augustus in January, 383 in an obvious attempt to secure succession.
Theodosius indeed campaigned west in 388 and was victorious against Maximus.
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 Critical Hit - The Empire
Some of the meanest and most ferocious Dwarf warriors live in Bugman's settlement and they will fight to the death to protect the alehouse, especially as Giants from the Grey Mountains come down for their ten yearly drinking binge, so it is easy for the brewery to attract good fighters.
Count Axel Reichenbach was a petty noble in Marienburg and when trade with Bretonnia flourished he diverted taxes to his own pocket.
The people of Kreutzhofen were ruthlessly under the Count's thumb and with the troops to enforce his rule the villagers became nothing but serfs.
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 St Theodosius
Theodosius and Sabas maintained boldly the right of Elias, and of John his successor; whereupon the imperial officers thought it most advisable to connive at their proceedings, considering the great authority they had acquired by their sanctity.
On the first intelligence of this, Theodosius went over all the deserts and country of Palestine, exhorting every one to be firm in the faith of the four general councils.
A certain count being on his march against the Persians, begged the hair shirt which the saint used to wear next his skin, and believed that he owed the victory which he obtained over them to the saint's protection through the pledge of that relic.
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 Theodosius - The Empire at Bay
Theodosius reigned at perhaps the most crucial time in Rome's existence, from the days when Christianity finally took complete control over the empire, to the last division of East and West to the constant threats on the borders of Rome and immediately after the destruction of a Roman Army at Adrianople.
For a while, Theodosius seemed to have allowed it since he was in no position to actually strike at the usurper but his loyalty to the Valentinian House made him move against Maximus even though it can be argued had he been allowed to rule and been his colleague Roman history may be different.
His, (Theodosius), most fatal flaw it is argued, is that he made no attempt to train his sons in the ways of war and leadership as Valentinian had his son Gratian or Count Theodosius had his son.
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 Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal ...
On the death of Honorius in Aug. 423, Theodosius declared for Valentinian.
In 427 the machinations of Aetius put Placidia in conflict with her tried friend Boniface, count of Africa, who, in despair, appealed for help to the Vandals, and Africa was overrun by their forces.
Leo bitterly bewailed the doings of that assembly to Placidia, who immediately wrote to Theodosius and his sister Pulcheria, intreating them to interfere in defence of the faith of their ancestors and to procure the restoration of Flavian, the deposed bp.
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 1.2.2.9.2 Theodosius
Theodosius was an ardent Christian, and his reign saw the destruction of many pagan monuments, including the famous Museum of Alexandria and its great library.
346, son of the famous Count Theodosius, who saved Britain from Picts and Saxons in the reign of Valentinian I, was selected to rule the East after Adrianople.
He invaded Gaul and overthrew Gratian, but his invasion of Italy aroused Theodosius, who supported Valentinian II and proved to be the better general, smashing Maximus at Poetovio.
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Theodosius thereupon seized the man, tortured him, and discovered he was a spy for the barbarians hidden in the marshes, giving them information about the movements of the Roman army and where they could attack.
African inscriptions from Maximian to Theodosius reveal all the themes of mastery of barbarians (dominatio gentium barbarum) and expansion of the empire (propagatio Rornani imperii) that were typical from Augustus to Septimius Severus.
The momentous strategic decision by Stilicho, and before him by Theodosius in the East, to use federate troops to man the frontiers goes virtually unnoticed and could be argued to have been a policy adopted faute de mieux.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 268 (v. 2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The revolt, in which Firmus was supported by his sister Cyria and by all his brothers, except Gildo, was quelled by the Count Theodosius, father of the emperor Theodosius the Great.
Claudian intimates that Theodosius, irritated by this, proposed to attack him, but was prevented by death.
He was received by Stilicho on his return with appa­ rent honour and real jealousy, and while crossing a bridge, apparently at Milan, among the retinue of Stilicho, was, by his order, shoved, as if acci­ dentally, into the river, carried away by the stream, and drowned.
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Theodosius was the sole barrier between them and the flood of barbarians which was already beating with the first restless waves of an overwhelming tide against the confines of the Empire.
Except the Count and his assessors, scarcely anyone dared to be even a listener in the vast Prætorium, where the battered fragments of statues and the signs of violent damage bore silent but eloquent testimony to the ferocity of the insurgents.
Theodosius did not affect the superficial splendours of Byzantinism, but stood on a dais at the end of the hall, a strong, handsome Spaniard, surrounded by the noble-looking Gothic guard in whom he delighted—white-skinned, majestic Amali and Balts, wearing their golden collars, and with their long fair hair streaming over their shoulders.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Council of Ephesus
However, these two bishops and Theodoret of Cyrus, with sixty-five others, wrote a memorial addressed to St. Cyril and Juvenal of Jerusalem, begging that the arrival of John should be awaited.
Count Candidian arrived, with the imperial decree, and he took the same view.
The party of Cyril was now complaining of Count Candidian and his soldiers, as the other side did of Memnon and the populace.
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 info: Count_Theodosius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Theodosius ITheodosius I. Theodosius I the Great, also known as Flavius Theodosius, Roman emperor (born Spain around 346 ; died at Milan, January 17, 395).
Detail PageA usurper and emperor of the West (383–388); of Spanish descent and related to Count Theodosius, father of Emperor Theodosius I. He served under the count in Britain in 369 and later fought in...
R2521 He was the son of the famous Count Theodosius who restored the authority of Valentinian I in Britain.
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 Roman Empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Theodosius massacred Thessalonica for rebelling against his new Christian policies condemning homosexuality, which was a common practice in both ancient Greece and Greece under Roman rule.
His choice was Theodosius I, son of formerly distinguished general Count Theodosius.
Theodosius proclaimed his oldest son Arcadius to be an Augustus in January, 383 in an obvious attempt to secure succession.
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 Count Theodosius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Count Theodosius, also known as Flavius Theodosius, a senior military officer serving in the western part of the Roman Empire.
He married Thermantia, by whom he had a son, also named Theodosius, at Cauca in Spain around 346.
He was sent to Britain in 368 to deal with a barbarian invasion of the Roman provinces in that island, which he dealt with successfully.
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 Count Theodosius - Definition, explanation
Flavius Theodosius was a senior military officer serving in the Western Roman Empire.
He held the rank of comes, and as such is usually referred to as Count Theodosius.
After a period of retirement on the family estates in Gallicia, his son Theodosius was elevated to Emperor January 19, 379.
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 Count_Theodosius - The Wordbook Encyclopedia
He held the rank of comes, and as such is usually referred to as Comes (Count) Theodosius.
Theodosius was sent to Britannia in 368, to deal with a barbarian invasion of the Roman provinces in that island, which he dealt with successfully.
In 373, Theodosius was made commander of the expedition to suppress the rebellion of Firmus in Mauretania, but following his victory over Firmus, Theodosius was arrested, taken to Carthage, and executed in early 375.
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 Valentinian II- Portrait Gallery of Roman Emperors on Coins
Furthermore, the new emperor in the east, Theodosius, used Valentinian's youth as justification to act as the senior Augustus of the Empire.
Theodosius was now clearly in charge of the whole Empire and he stayed in the west until AD391.
Theodosius chose to ignore his young imperial colleague and Valentinian fell into despair and depression.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 302 (v. 2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
He sanctioned the settlement jn Pannonia and Upper Maesia of some German nations, who were pressing upon the frontier of the empire; perhaps thinking thus to repair the waste of population in the Gothic war, or to raise up a barrier against further invasion.
His generals, the Franks, Bauto and Arbogastes, with their army, were sent to assist Theodosius ; and Gratian himself, if we may trust an obscure expression of Idatius, gained a victory over some hostile army, "but of what nation is not said.
He also, during the illness of Theodosius, arranged or strengthened a treaty with the Goths.
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 Sandys Timelines for Ancient Roman History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
FROM THE MURDER OF JOVIAN TO THE DEATH OF THEODOSIUS.
FROM THE DEATH OF THEODOSIUS TO THE DEATH OF ATTILA.
Accession of the younger Theodosius in the East.
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 February 27: Be a Christian, or else!
Theodosius' decision was the result of his upbringing: he was reared in a Christian home, perhaps the first emperor to enjoy that distinction.(His behavior wasn't always Christian, however, as the premeditated massacre of thousands of civilians at Thessalonica showed in 390).
Theodosius deposed Demophilus of Constantinople an Arian bishop and replaced him with a trinitarian.
They established a pattern which would become more pronounced as Theodosius' reign progressed of using the apparatus of the state to suppress diversity of religious opinion.
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 Sylvia Lake Story
In 1814, Theodosius Oliver, paid a visit to the Lake Killarney property and reported back to his father that yes, he would live on Lake Killarney, if his father build a house for him there.
In 1817, Theodosius was appointed Captain of the Militia in Jefferson Co., NY.
It is said that Theodosius struggled to be faithful to Amelia, but his growing feelings for Sylvia and an almost-tragic boating accident on the lake, convinced him that it was Sylvia he loved, not Amelia.
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 Roman Empire - Deistpedia, the Deist encyclopedia
The administrative divisions of the Roman Empire in 395, under Theodosius I.
Theodosius was left a widower, in 385, following the sudden death of Aelia Flaccilla, his Augusta.He was remarried to the sister of Valentinean II, Galla, and the marriage secured closer relations between the two legitimate Augusti.
The Holy Roman Empire, an attempt to resurrect the Empire in the West, was established in 800 when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as Roman Emperor on "Christ" mas Day, though the empire and the imperial office did not become formalized for some decades.
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 Britannica India: Did you Know?
Probably of Frankish descent, he rose to the rank of magister equitum (“master of the cavalry”) in the Western Roman army and was sent by the emperor Gratian, in 380, to assist the Eastern ruler Theodosius against the Goths in Thrace.
In 388, after the defeat in Italy of the usurper Magnus Maximus by Theodosius, Arbogast recovered Gaul for the Western emperor Valentinian II from Maximus's son, Flavius Victor.
Arbogast attempted to ambush Theodosius, but the two-day battle of Frigidus (at the Frigidus River, modern Vipava River) on September 5 and 6 ended in victory for Theodosius.
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