Valentinian III

emperor of the Western Roman Empire (419-455)

Roman Empress (422-493)

Placidia () was a 5th-century Roman noblewoman and briefly empress in the Western Roman Empire. Her father was Valentinian III, Roman emperor in the West from 425 to 455. In 455, shortly after her marriage to Olybrius, she was captured by Gaiseric and spent six or seven years as a hostage of the Vandal Kingdom. At the end of this period Placidia was ransomed back to Constantinople, where she remained during Olybrius's few months as western Roman emperor in 472. She was one of the last imperial spouses in the Roman west, during the Fall of the Western Roman Empire in Late Antiquity.

Roman imperial princess

2001 television miniseries directed by Dick Lowry

opera by Georg Friedrich Händel

1964 film by Luigi Capuano

opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1750)