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Key facts
- Tenure
- 27 April 395 – 6 October 404
- Died
- 6 October 404
- Burial
- Church of the Holy Apostles
- Spouse
- Arcadius (395 to death)
- Issue detail
- Flaccilla Pulcheria Arcadia Theodosius II Marina
- Dynasty
- Theodosian
- Father
- Bauto
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- The Dinner Party
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Byzantine Empire
- Place of birth
- Byzantine Empire
- Place of death
- Constantinople
- Spouse
- Arcadius
- Father
- Flavius Bauto
- Occupation
- sovereign
- Position held
- Byzantine emperor
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Religion
- Christian
- Family
- Theodosian dynasty
- Image
- Aelia Eudoxia, wife of Arcadius.png
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- date of death
- 0404-00-00
- time period
- Byzantine Empire
- Commons category
- Aelia Eudoxia
- place of burial
- Church of the Holy Apostles
- cause of death
- puerperal disorders
- date of birth
- 0301-01-01
- name in native language
- Aelia Eudoxia
- different from
- Eudoxia
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Aelia Eudoxia (/ˈiːliə juˈdɒkʃə -ˈdɒksiə/; Ancient Greek: Αἰλία Εὐδοξία; died 6 October 404) was an Eastern Roman empress by marriage to the Roman emperor Arcadius. The marriage was arranged by Eutropius, one of the eunuch court officials, who was attempting to expand his influence. As Empress, she came into conflict with John Chrysostom, the Patriarch of Constantinople, who denounced imperial and clerical excess. She had five children, four of whom survived to adulthood, including her only son, the future emperor Theodosius II, but she had two additional pregnancies that ended in either miscarriages or stillbirths and she died as a result of the latter one.
Family
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