Arcadius

378 - 408  (30 years)    Has 7 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Arcadius
  Birth	377-378
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 May 408
  Siblings	2 Siblings
  + 1. Arcadius,   b. 377-378   d. 1 May 408  (Age 30 years) ▻ Aelia Eudoxia   2. Honorius,   b. 9 Sep 384   d. 15 Aug 423  (Age 38 years) ▻ Maria,  m. Abt Feb 398 ;   Thermantia,  m. Aft 407   3. Pulcheria   d. 385
  Person ID	I116418	Geneagraphie | Ahnen BvS, Voorouders HW
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2010

  
  

  Father	Theodosius, I,   b. 11 Jan 347, Cauca d. 17 Jan 395 (Age 48 years)
  Mother	Aelia Flaccilla   d. 385
  Family ID	F46907	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Aelia Eudoxia,   b. Abt 375   d. 404 (Age 29 years)
  Children	+ 1. Theodosius, II,   b. Apr 401   d. 28 Jul 450 (Age 49 years)   2. Pulcheria Aelia Augusta,   b. 19 Jan 399   d. 18 Feb 453, Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire (Age 54 years)   3. Flacilla,   b. 17 Jun 397   d. Bef 308   4. Arcadia,   b. 3 Apr 400   d. 444 (Age 43 years)   5. Marina,   b. 10 Feb 403   d. 3 Aug 449, Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire (Age 46 years)   6. NN,   b. 6 Oct 404, Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire d. 6 Oct 404, Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire (Age 0 years)
  Family ID	F46906	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2010

  
  

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  Roman Emperor in the Eastern half of the Roman Empire from 395 until his death. His father declared him an Augustus in January, 383 . As emperor, Honorius was under the control of the Romanized Vandal magister militum Flavius Stilicho while Arcadius was dominated by one of his ministers, Rufinus. Stilicho is alleged by some to have wanted control of both emperors, and is supposed to have had Rufinus assassinated by Gothic mercenaries in 395, but definite proof of these allegations is lacking. In any case, Arcadius' new advisor Eutropius simply took Rufinus' place as the power behind the Eastern imperial throne. Arcadius was also dominated by his wife Aelia Eudoxia, who convinced her husband to dismiss Eutropius in 399. Eudoxia was strongly opposed by John Chrysostom, the Patriarch of Constantinople, who felt that she had used her family's wealth to gain control over the emperor. Eudoxia used her influence to have Chrysostom deposed in 404, but she died later that year. Arcadius was dominated for the rest of his rule by Anthemius, the Praetorian Prefect, who made peace with Stilicho in the West. Arcadius himself was more concerned with appearing to be a pious Christian than he was with political or military matters, and he died, only nominally in control of his empire, in 408.