Valentinian II
c. 371 CE–c. 392 CE · Trier
Child emperor of the Roman West, proclaimed at age four in 375 and guided in his early years by his mother Justina before falling under the dominance of the Frankish general Arbogast, in whose custody he was found dead at Vienne in 392, most likely murdered (Arbogast claimed suicide; ancient accounts differ). His reign featured two documented church-state episodes: in 384 his court rejected the senator Symmachus's petition to restore the pagan Altar of Victory to the Roman Senate, a request opposed by Bishop Ambrose of Milan; and in 385-386 his Arian-leaning court clashed with Ambrose over a demand to surrender a Milanese basilica for Arian worship, a standoff the city's Nicene Christians under Ambrose ultimately won.
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Trier (Augusta Treverorum), on the Moselle River in western Germany, was Rome's northernmost imperial capital and the oldest episcopal see north of the Alps, making it a pivotal early center of Western Christianity.
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