Theodosius I

Member of the House of Theodosius dynasty.

Coins for this issuer were issued from 379 until 395.

Flavius Theodosius was born around 346 in Spain and was the son of Count Theodosius who put down the rebellion in Britain. Gratian made him emperor in the East in 379, and Theodosius started to drive back the eastern invaders. In 388, he helped defeat Maximus in the west; six years later he suppressed Eugenius’ usurpation. At this point Theodosius had control of the entire empire, but died in 395 due to dropsy.

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• Preferred label: Theodosius I
• Full names:
  • Theodosius I
  • Flavius Theodosius Augustus (as emperor)
  • Flavius Theodosius (from birth to accession);
• Title: 69
• Predecessor: Western Roman Empire, Gratian, Valentinian II, Valens, Byzantine Empire
• Successor: Western Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Arcadius, Honorius (emperor)
• Definition: Theodosius I (Latin: Flavius Theodosius Augustus; 11 January 347 – 17 January 395), also known as Theodosius the Great, was Roman Emperor from AD 379 to AD 395. Theodosius was the last emperor to rule over both the eastern and the western halves of the Roman Empire. On accepting his elevation, he campaigned against Goths and other barbarians who had invaded the empire. He failed to kill, expel, or entirely subjugate them, and after the Gothic War, they established a homeland south of the Danube, in Illyricum, within the empire's borders. He fought two destructive civil wars, in which he defeated the usurpers Magnus Maximus and Eugenius at great cost to the power of the empire. He also issued decrees that effectively made orthodox Nicene Christianity the official state church of the Roman Empire. He neither prevented nor punished the destruction of prominent Hellenistic temples of classical antiquity, including the Temple of Apollo in Delphi and the Serapeum in Alexandria. He dissolved the order of the Vestal Virgins in Rome. In 393, he banned the pagan rituals of the Olympics in Ancient Greece. (It was not until the end of the 19th century, in 1896, that the Olympics were held again.) After his death, Theodosius' young sons Arcadius and Honorius inherited the east and west halves respectively, and the Roman Empire was never again re-united, though Byzantine emperors after Zeno would claim the united title after Julius Nepos' death in 480 AD.
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  • Father: Count Theodosius
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• Subjects on wikipedia:
  • Flavii
  • 4th-century Roman emperors
  • 395 deaths
  • Persecution by early Christians
  • Theodosian dynasty
  • 347 births
  • Romans from Hispania
  • 4th-century Christians
  • Imperial Roman consuls
  • Burials at the Church of the Holy Apostles
  • Ancient Romans in Britain
  • 4th-century Byzantine emperors

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