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Aelia Pulcheria was an Eastern Roman empress who advised her brother, the emperor Theodosius II, during his minority and then became wife to emperor Marcian from November 450 to her death in 453.
The Trier Ivory, representing a procession with royal figures theorized to depict Theodosius II and Pulcheria.
Theodosius II
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Theodosius II, called "the Calligrapher", was Roman emperor from 402 to 450. He was proclaimed Augustus as an infant and ruled as the Eastern Empire's sole emperor after the death of his father Arcadi
Pulcheria
…Aelia Pulcheria (; Ancient Greek: Πουλχερία; 19 January 398 or 399 – July 453) was an Eastern Roman empress who advised her brother, the emperor Theodosius II, during his minority and then became wife to emperor Marcian from November 450 to her death in 453. She was the second (and oldest surviving) child of…
Bust of Theodosius II in the Louvre
Solidus of Theodosius, minted in Constantinople c. 435
Theodosius receives the Phrygian Apple and inquisits Eudocia about it. A scene from the 14th century Manasses Chronicle.
Theodosius welcomes the relics of John Chrysostom; miniature from the early 11th century