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Persönliche Daten FLAVIA GALLA 

• Sie ist geboren im Jahr 370 in Constantinople, Byzantium, Turkey.
• Titel: Roman Empress, Princess of the Western Roman Empire
• (Ancestry) : Valentinian Dynasty.
• Sie ist verstorben im Jahr 394, sie war 24 Jahre alt.

  Died in childbirth

• Ein Kind von I VALENTINIAN und JUSTINA

Familie von FLAVIA GALLA

Sie war verwandt mit FLAVIUS THEODOSIUS.

Kind(er):

1. AELIA GALLA PLACIDIA  388-450 

Notizen bei FLAVIA GALLA

Flavia Galla (died 394 CE) was an Empress of the Roman Empire and a Princess of the Western Roman Empire. She was the second Empress consort of Theodosius I. She was daughter of Valentinian I and his second wife Justina.

Little is known of Galla, including her full name. Galla is the female cognomen for Gallus and, in Latin, gallus could mean both an inhabitant of Gaul and a rooster.

Her paternal uncle Valens was Emperor of the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire from 364 to his death in the Battle of Adrianople (9 August 378). Her father was emperor of the Western Roman Empire from 364 to his death on 17 November 375 and was previously married to Marina Severa. The only known child of that marriage was Gratian, Western Roman Emperor from 375 to his assassination on 25 August 383. Her mother was previously married to Magnentius, a Roman usurper from 350 to 353. However both Zosimus and the fragmentary chronicle of John of Antioch report that Justina was too young at the time of her first marriage to have children. Galla thus had no known maternal half-siblings.

Galla had three full-siblings. Her only brother was Valentinian II, first co-emperor with Gratian from 375 and then the only legitimate Western Roman Emperor from 383 to his death by hanging on 15 May 392. His death was officially reported as a suicide but Arbogast, his magister militum was suspected to have had a hand in it, an accusation found in the writings of Socrates of Constantinople, Orosius, and Zosimus. Sozomen was less certain and mentioned both versions of how Valentinian II died.

Her two sisters were Grata and Justa. According to Socrates, both remained unmarried. They were probably still alive in 392 but not mentioned afterwards.

Galla was cast into a role of significance because of conflict between three Roman emperors in the 380s. Galla was reportedly a beautiful woman and Theodosius was soon smitten and requested to marry her. Justina used this to her advantage, setting a condition for the marriage agreement under which Theodosius would have to attack Maximus and restore Valentinian II to his throne. Theodosius consented to Justina’s condition, the marriage probably taking place in late 387.

When Galla married Theodosius, she became both a Roman Empress and a stepmother to Theodosius’ two sons from his first marriage, Arcadius and Honorius. Arcadius was the eldest and had been declared an Augustus in January, 383. He served as a nominal co-ruler to his father but was still approximately ten-years-old at the time of Galla's marriage.

Theodosius spent the years 388-391 in Italia, while Galla and her stepsons remained in the Great Palace of Constantinople. According to Marcellinus Comes, in 390 Arcadius expelled her from the Palace., but, since Arcadius was only thirteen, that decision could as well belong to those who governed in his name.

Galla had three children with Theodosius who were:

Gratian, a son born in 388 and who died young;
Aelia Galla Placidia, a daughter (392-27 November, 450), her only child to survive to adulthood and who later became an Empress in her own right. She married Ataulf, king of the Visigoths, and, after his death, Constantius III;
John, a son, who died with his mother in childbirth in 394.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galla_(wife_of_Theodosius_I)

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