A family
on the record,
reign by reign.
Documented kin
Members · 15
The house, member by member
One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.
What this means
People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.
2 children in the house
Every member
People whose own records place them in this house.
- Flavius Theodosiusuntil 376 CE · Roman military officer in Brittania
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Aelia Eudoxia4th century CE – 6 October 404 CE · Empress consort of the Byzantine Emperor Arcadius -
Magnus Maximus335 CE – 27 August 388 CE · late 4th-century Roman emperor of Britain and usurper of the West -
Theodosius I11 January 347 CE – 17 January 395 CE · Child of Flavius Theodosius -
Aelia Flaccilla31 March 356 CE – 386 CE · 4th-century Roman empress -
Valentinian II371 CE – 15 May 392 CE · Roman emperor from 375 to 392
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Arcadius1 January 377 CE – 1 May 408 CE · Child of Theodosius I
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Honorius9 September 384 CE – 15 August 423 CE · Child of Theodosius I -
Galla Placidia386 CE – 27 November 450 CE · Child of Theodosius I
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Marcian392 CE – 26 January 457 CE · Eastern Roman (Byzantine) emperor (390-457) -
Pulcheria19 January 399 CE – July 453 CE · Child of Arcadius -
Aelia Eudociathe 400s CE – 21 October 460 CE · Greek Eastern Roman Empress by marriage to Byzantine emperor Theodosius II (c.401-460) -
Theodosius II10 April 401 CE – 28 July 450 CE · Child of Arcadius -
Marcia Euphemia5th century CE · Child of Marcian -
Licinia Eudoxia422 CE – c. 493 CE · Child of Aelia Eudocia
Succession
Offices held in the house
The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.
Ancient Roman senator
- 7 holders
- 7 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
No dates recorded 7
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Dates unrecorded Magnus Maximus late 4th-century Roman emperor of Britain and usurper of the West -
Dates unrecorded Theodosius I Roman emperor from 379 to 395 -
Dates unrecorded Marcian Eastern Roman (Byzantine) emperor (390-457) -
Dates unrecorded Arcadius Roman Emperor from 395–408 (377–408)
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Dates unrecorded Honorius 4th and 5th-century Roman emperor -
Dates unrecorded Theodosius II Byzantine Emperor (401–450) -
Dates unrecorded Valentinian II Roman emperor from 375 to 392
Byzantine emperor
- 7 holders
- 3 overlaps
- 1 gap
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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19 January 379 CE – 17 January 395 CE Theodosius I Roman emperor from 379 to 395 -
17 January 395 CE – 1 May 408 CE Arcadius Roman Emperor from 395–408 (377–408)
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Overlap held at the same time as Arcadius
395 CE – 404 CE Aelia Eudoxia Empress consort of the Byzantine Emperor Arcadius -
Gap about 4 years before the next in this house
1 May 408 CE – 28 July 450 CE Theodosius II Byzantine Emperor (401–450) -
Overlap held at the same time as Theodosius II
421 CE – 450 CE Aelia Eudocia Greek Eastern Roman Empress by marriage to Byzantine emperor Theodosius II (c.401-460) -
450 CE – January 457 CE Marcian Eastern Roman (Byzantine) emperor (390-457) -
Overlap held at the same time as Marcian
450 CE – 453 CE Pulcheria Byzantine empress, wife of Marcian
Roman emperor
- 4 holders
- 1 overlap
- 1 gap
- 1 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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17 November 375 CE – 15 May 392 CE Valentinian II Roman emperor from 375 to 392
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Overlap held at the same time as Valentinian II
19 January 379 CE – 17 January 395 CE Theodosius I Roman emperor from 379 to 395 -
Gap about 7 years before the next in this house
January 402 CE – 28 July 450 CE Theodosius II Byzantine Emperor (401–450)
No dates recorded 1
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Dates unrecorded Magnus Maximus late 4th-century Roman emperor of Britain and usurper of the West
Roman consul
- 3 holders
- 3 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
No dates recorded 3
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Dates unrecorded Magnus Maximus late 4th-century Roman emperor of Britain and usurper of the West -
Dates unrecorded Theodosius I Roman emperor from 379 to 395 -
Dates unrecorded Honorius 4th and 5th-century Roman emperor
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.
Religious context · a separate claim
Affiliation
Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.
What this means
Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.
Affiliations recorded on members
An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.
Connections
How Theodosian dynasty connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
1 statement on this record
- 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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