Constantius III Flavius

370 – 421 · Generation XIX · Western co-emperor (AD 421) · Valentinian · Theodosian

Constantius III (AD 370 – AD 421). Western co-emperor (AD 421). Married Galla around AD 417. The general who restored the West for Honorius, rewarded with the purple and dead within seven months. His climb ran through victories: in 411 he crushed the usurper Constantine III at Arles and had him beheaded on the road back to Ravenna; two years later he beat the rebel governor Heraclianus, who had cut Italy’s grain and landed an army near Rome. By blockading the Visigoths in Hispania he starved King Wallia into terms — food in exchange for war on the Vandals and the return of Galla Placidia, whom the Goths had carried off. He then put down the Bagaudae rising in Gaul, and by 420 had recovered much of Gaul and Hispania. Thrice consul, he found the purple itself a disappointment: Constantinople refused to recognise his elevation, and he was weighing war on the East when his health gave way.

One of 16 people of Valentinian · Theodosian (321–462) in this archive. The last house to rule both halves of the empire at once.

Partners

Married Galla Placidia (392 – 450) in 417 — one child together

Children

Valentinian III Placidus (419 – 455)

Life

370 — Born
417 — Married Galla
421 — Died