Valentinian I Flavius

321 – 375 · Generation XVII · Western emperor (r. AD 364–375) · Valentinian · Theodosian

Valentinian I (AD 321 – AD 375). Western emperor (r. AD 364–375). Married Marina around AD 354; the marriage was dissolved in AD 370. Married Justina around AD 370. The soldiers’ choice after Julian’s line ended; died of a stroke while shouting at barbarian envoys. He gave his reign to the frontiers: hard campaigns against the Alamanni — including a costly victory at Solicinium — and a great programme of fortification along the Rhine, with one fort pushed provocatively onto the far bank. When Picts, Scots and Saxons overwhelmed Britain in the Great Conspiracy, he sent the elder Theodosius to restore the island; the same general later crushed Firmus’s revolt in Africa. At home he founded schools and appointed a physician for each of Rome’s fourteen districts to treat the poor, though ancient writers also remember a violent, brutal temper and a hatred of the cultivated. It was the building of forts in Quadi territory that ignited his final war on the Danube.

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

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Parents

• Gratianus Funarius (290 – 350)

Siblings

• Valens Flavius (328 – 378)

Partners

• Married Marina Severa (330 – 375) in 354; the marriage was dissolved in 370 — one child together
• Married Justina Augusta (340 – 388) in 370 — 2 children together

Children

• Gratian Flavius (359 – 383)
• Valentinian II Flavius (371 – 392)
• Galla Flavia (370 – 394)

Life

• 321 — Born
• 354 — Married Marina
• 370 — Parted from Marina
• 370 — Married Justina
• 375 — Died