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Valentinian III

Valentinian III

c. 419 CE–c. 455 CE · Ravenna

Theodosian Western Roman emperor (r. 425-455) during whose long reign the Vandals seized Carthage and Roman Africa (439), while the patrician Aetius repelled Attila's Huns at the Catalaunian Plains (451). In 438-439 he and his eastern co-emperor Theodosius II promulgated the Theodosian Code, which gathered earlier imperial law and, with its accompanying novels, restricted Jews — barring them from imperial service, the military and the legal profession and treating Judaism as an alien superstitio. His reign also saw the Council of Chalcedon (451), convened chiefly by the eastern emperor Marcian with Valentinian named in the convocation as senior Augustus, and Pope Leo I's embassy to Attila (452).

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RavennaItaly

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Ravenna, a city in Emilia-Romagna, northeastern Italy. Capital of the Western Roman Empire from 402 and later of Ostrogothic and Byzantine Italy, it was the see of Peter Chrysologus (5th-c. bishop and Doctor of the Church) and the home of the statesman-monk Cassiodorus.

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