Placidia's father was Valentinian III, Roman emperor in the West from 425 to 455.
16 Facts About Placidia
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Placidia was one of the last imperial spouses in the Roman west, during the Fall of the Western Roman Empire in Late Antiquity.
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Placidia was a nobilissima femina, known to have been living in Constantinople in 478 and 484.
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Placidia was the second daughter of Valentinian III and Licinia Eudoxia, younger sister of Eudocia, who became the wife of Huneric, son of Gaiseric, king of the Vandals.
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Placidia is estimated to have been born between 439 and 443.
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In 454 or 455, Placidia married Anicius Olybrius, a member of the Anicii family, a prominent family with known members active in both Italia and Gaul.
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Placidia came suddenly to Rome with his forces and captured the city, and having destroyed Maximus and all his forces, he took everything from the palace, even the bronze statues.
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Placidia even led away as captives surviving senators, accompanied by their wives; along with them he carried off to Carthage in Africa the empress Eudoxia, who had summoned him; her daughter Placidia, the wife of the patrician Olybrius, who then was staying at Constantinople; and even the maiden Eudocia.
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Placidia was separated from his wife for the duration of her captivity.
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Placidia reportedly visited Daniel the Stylite who predicted that Eudoxia and Placidia would return.
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Placidia seems to have spent the rest of her life in Constantinople.
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Placidia became Western Empress without actually visiting the west, remaining in Constantinople with their daughter.
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Placidia formerly had been sent there by Zeno with the agreement of Placidia herself.
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Placidia gave thanks that the emperor had honored the wife of Olybrius.
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Placidia was probably the last Western Roman Empress whose name is still known.
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Placidia's only known child and daughter was Anicia Juliana, born c 462, who spent her life at the pre-Justinian court of Constantinople.