Theodosius

Also known as: the Spaniard, Theodosius · Family: Roman Empire · Role: emperor · First appears: Book I · Chap. IX

Life events

Gratian invested Theodosius with imperial authority and made him emperor of Thrace and the Eastern provinces.(Book I · Chap. IX · 📍 Sirmium)
- With: Gratian
- “Gratian ... invested the Spaniard, Theodosius, with the purple at Sirmium, and made him emperor of Thrace and the Eastern provinces.”
Theodosius received Valentinian with fatherly affection and restored him to the empire.(Book I · Chap. IX · 📍 the East)
- With: Valentinian
- “where he was entertained by Theodosius with fatherly affection, and soon restored to the empire”
Theodosius and Valentinian captured Maximus at Aquileia and put him to death.(Book I · Chap. IX · 📍 Aquileia)
- With: Valentinian Maximus
- “for Maximus the tyrant, being shut up in Aquileia, was there taken by them and put to death.”
Arcadius succeeded to the empire and ruled jointly with Honorius.(Book I · Chap. X)
- With: Arcadius Honorius
- “In the year of our Lord 394, Arcadius, the son of Theodosius, the forty-third from Augustus, succeeding to the empire, with his brother Honorius, held it thirteen years.”
c. 705 · Theophilus prepared a hundred-year Paschal computation for Emperor Theodosius.(Book V · Chap. XXI · part 2)
- With: Theophilus
- “This Paschal computation, Theophilus, Bishop of Alexandria, made for the Emperor Theodosius, for a hundred years to come.”

sworn: Gratian “he invested the Spaniard, Theodosius, with the purple at Sirmium, and made him emperor of Thrace and the Eastern provinces”
with Valentinian (Theodosius received and restored Valentinian.) “His brother, the Emperor Valentinian, expelled from Italy, fled into the East, where he was entertained by Theodosius with fatherly affection, and soon restored to the empire”
enemies with Maximus (The pronoun “them” refers to Theodosius and Valentinian.) “for Maximus the tyrant, being shut up in Aquileia, was there taken by them and put to death”

child: Arcadius “Arcadius, the son of Theodosius, the forty-third from Augustus, succeeding to the empire”

child: Honorius (Theodosius is explicitly identified as Honorius's father.) “Honorius, the younger son of Theodosius, and the forty-fourth from Augustus, being emperor”

with Theophilus (Theophilus prepared the Paschal computation for Theodosius.) “This Paschal computation, Theophilus, Bishop of Alexandria, made for the Emperor Theodosius, for a hundred years to come.”

Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.