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Galla Placidia
Aelia Galla Placidia (388 – 27 November 450), daughter of the Roman emperor Theodosius I, was regent to Valentinian III from 423 until his majority in 437, and a major force in Roman politics for most of her life. She was queen consort to Ataulf, king of the Visigoths from 414 until his death in 415, and briefly empress consort to Constantius III in 421.
Family.
Placidia was the daughter of Theodosius I and his second wife, Galla, who was herself daughter of
"Galla Placídia" in 1913.
- Galla Placidia is played by Alice Krige in the 2001 American TV miniseries "Attila".
Further reading.
- is a good, modern study of Placidia and the times in which she lived.
External links.
- Pictures of the mausoleum of Galla Placidia
- Entry of Aelia Flaccilla in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
- Zosimus, New History. London: Green and Chaplin (1814). Book 5.