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.
Arcadius was Roman emperor from 383 to his death in 408. He was the eldest son of the Augustus Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla, and the brother of Honorius. Arcadius ruled the eastern
Pulcheria
…and then became wife to emperor Marcian from November 450 to her death in 453. She was the second (and oldest surviving) child of Eastern Roman Emperor Arcadius and Empress Aelia Eudoxia. In 414, the fifteen-year old Pulcheria became the guardian of her younger brother Theodosius II and was also proclaimed…
Bust of an emperor at the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, most likely Arcadius.
A young Arcadius is depicted on the right of the Missorium of Theodosius. C. 388 AD.
The emperors Arcadius, Honorius and Theodosius I depicted in the 12th century Manasses Chronicle.
Portrait head of an emperor, potentially Arcadius