Valentinian III

ad 419-455.

Emperor of Rome in the West (425-455) whose reign was marked by numerous raids by Germanic tribes.

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Valentinian III

Valentinianus III

(Biography) ?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

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But now that the main barbarian threat seemed removed, he was treacherously murdered by the emperor Valentinian III (425-455) who had long hated him.

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