Rome: The Valentinian Emperors to the Fall

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With the accession of Valentinian I in the West and his brother Valens in the East in 364 AD, the split between the East and West of the Roman Empire was reaching it's conclusion. The West was facing not just military incursions of the "Barbarians" such as the Goths and Vandals, but the settling of Roman land by them as feoderati, i.e. by treaty, and infiltration of government by educated "barbarians" In 378 AD, Valens was defeated at Adrianople, by armies of the Visigoths and Ostrogoths, when two thirds of the Roman army of the East were destroyed. The situation was saved by the elevation of Theodosius I as emperor in the East. During the reign in the West of Honorius (293-423 AD), Rome was sacked. In 410 AD Honorius wrote to the citizens of Britain telling them to look out for themselves. The emperors in Rome became little more than puppets of "barbarian" masters and in 476 AD, Odovacar was proclaimed king and sent the regalia of the infant emperor, Romulus Augustus, to the Eastern emperor, Zeno, declaring that the West no longer needed a separate emperor. This was the effective end of Rome in the west, although territory was re-captured by eastern emperors, only to be lost again.

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Jovian 363 - 364 AD AE3	Valentinian I 364 - 375 AD AE3	Valentinian I 364 - 375 AD AE3
Valens 364 - 378 AD AV Solidus	Valens 364 - 378 AD AE3	Valens 364 - 378 AD AE3
Procopius 365 - 366 AD AE3	Gratian 367 - 383 AD AE 3	Gratian 367 - 383 AD AE 3
Gratian 367 - 383 AD AE 2	Valentinian II 375 - 392 AD AR Siliqua	Valentinian II 375 - 392 AD AE3
Theodosius I 379 - 395 AD AE3	Theodosius I 379 - 395 AD AR Siliqua	Theodosius I 379 - 395 AD AE2
Aelia Flaccilla Wife of Theodosius I AE2	Magnus Maximus 383 - 388 AD AR Siliqua	Magnus Maximus 383 - 388 AD AE2 of Arelate
Flavius Victor 387 - 388 AD AR Siliqua	Eugenius 392 - 394 AD AR Light Miliarensis	Arcadius 383 - 408 AD AE 2
Eudoxia Wife of Arcadius AE3	Honorius 393 - 423 AD AV Solidus	Theodosius II 402 - 450 AD AE3
Theodosius II 402 - 450 AD AE3	Constantine III 407 - 411 AD Constans 408 - 411 AD Maximus 409 - 411 AD Priscus Attalus 409-410/414-415 AD Jovinus 411 - 413 AD Sebastianus 412 - 413 AD	Constantius III 421 AD Galla Placidia Johannes 423 - 425 AD Eudocia Pulcheria Valentinian III 425 - 455 AD Licinia Eudoxia Honoria
Marcian 450 - 457 AD AV Solidus	Petronius Maximus 455 AD Avitus 455 - 456 AD Leo I 457 - 474 AD Verina Leo II 473 - 474 AD Majorian 457 - 461 AD	Severus III 461 - 465 AD Anthemius 467 - 472 AD Olybrius 472 AD Glycerius 473 - 474 AD Julius Nepos 474 - 475 AD Romulus Augustus 475 - 476 AD
Zeno 474 - 491 AD Ariadne Basiliscus 475 - 476 AD Zeno And Leo Caesars Leontius 484 - 488 AD Anastasius I 491 - 518 AD

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