Valentinian III

or Valentinianus III

noun

1. a.d. 419?–455, emperor of the Western Roman Empire 425–455.

Valentinian III

noun

1. Valentinian III?419455MRomanPOLITICS: hereditary ruler ?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

Example Sentences

The Romans used signatures as far back as the reign of Valentinian III in 439.

From BBC

Theodosius the Great attempted to take a step in advance, by decreeing that the children thus sold might regain their freedom without the repayment of the purchase-money, a temporary service being a sufficient compensation for the purchase;38 but this measure was repealed by Valentinian III.

From Project Gutenberg

St. Helena, the mother of Constantine, Flacilla, the wife of Theodosius the Great, St. Pulcheria, the sister of Theodosius the Younger, and Placidia, the mother of Valentinian III., were among the most conspicuous defenders of the faith.

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In 435 Theodosius II. and Valentinian III. ordered all Nestorian books to be burned, and another law threatens punishment on all who will not deliver up Manich�an writings for the same fate.

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Hilarius was deprived of his rights as metropolitan to consecrate bishops, call synods, or exercise ecclesiastical oversight in the province, and the pope secured the edict of Valentinian III., so important in the history of the Gallican church, “ut episcopis Gallicanis omnibusque pro lege esset quidquid apostolicae sedis auctoritas sanxisset.”

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