Key Facts
 Other names Flavius Theodosius, Theodosius the Great
 Born 347
 Location  Cauca, in Hispania (modern day Coca, Spain)
Bloodline Theodosian
Married Aelia Flaccilla (?-385)
2) Galla, daughter of Valentinian I
Children By 1)Arcadius, Honorius and Pulcheria (?-385)
By 2) Galla Placidia
Position Emperor (379-395)
Died January 395 (aged 48)


  Background
 

Theodosius was born in Cauca, in Hispania (modern day Coca, Spain), to a professional christian military family under Roman General Theodosius the Elder and his wife Thermantia.
  While the character and exploits of General Theodosius the Elder, who was later promoted to the position of Count, have been filtered, contemporary historian Ammianus considered General Theodosius the Elder to be an unyielding tyrant who relished brutal military discipline.
  On the ascension of Valentinian I as sole Emperor in 364, General Theodosius (the Elder) was appointed as the magister equitum praesentalis (Master of the Horse), at the court of Emperor Valentinian. With such an appointment came lavish new quarters and it is almost certain he brought across his family to Rome, including his brother Damasus.
  In 366, the uncle of Theodosius (the younger) was appointed Pope of Rome, after the supporters of the Liberius dynasty rioted and were put down by Valentinian, presumably with some help from Theodosius (the Elder).
  Theodosius (the younger) accompanied his father to Britannia to help quell the Great Conspiracy in 368.
  In 373, Theodosius was made commander of the expedition to suppress the rebellion of Firmus in Mauretania, but following his victory over Firmus, Theodosius was arrested, taken to Carthage, and executed in early 375.
  At about the same time as the sudden disgrace and execution of his father, Theodosius retired to Cauca. The reason for his retirement, and the relationship (if any) between it and his father's death is unclear. It is possible that he was dismissed from his command by the emperor Valentinian I after the loss of two of Theodosius' legions to the Sarmatians in late 374.
  The death of Valentinian I in 375 created political pandemonium. Fearing further persecution on account of his family ties, Theodosius abruptly retired to his family estates where he adapted to the life of a provincial aristocrat.
 

From 364 to 375, the Roman Empire was governed by two co-emperors, the brothers Valentinian I and Valens; when Valentinian died in 375, his sons, Valentinian II and Gratian, succeeded him as rulers of the Western Roman Empire.

  In 378, after Valens was killed in the Battle of Adrianople, Gratian appointed Theodosius to replace the fallen emperor as co-augustus for the East. Gratian was killed in a rebellion in 383.
  After the death in 392 of Valentinian II, whom Theodosius had supported against a variety of usurpations, Theodosius ruled as sole emperor, defeating the usurper Eugenius on September 6, 394, at the Battle of the Frigidus (Vipava river, modern Slovenia).
 

By his first wife, Aelia Flaccilla, he had two sons, Arcadius and Honorius and a daughter, Aelia Pulcheria; Arcadius was his heir in the east and Honorius in the west. Both Pulcheria and Aelia Flaccilla died in 385.
 

His second wife was Galla, daughter of the emperor Valentinian I. Theodosius and Galla had three children who were a son, Gratian born in 388 who died young and a daughter Aelia Galla Placidia (392–450). Placidia was the only child who survived to adulthood and later become an Empress and the third child (a son), John died with his mother in childbirth in 394.
  Most Evil Crimes
 
 List of most evil crimes
Type Year Crime
  Of obstruction of basic principles of fair justice: (388 CE) That Emperor Theodosius upon request of the christian church did introduce law prohibiting discussion of religious doctrine outside church.
  Of moral indecency: (389 CE) That Emperor Theodosius upon request of christian leaders did outlaws all non-Christian calendars, charts and navigation instruments indicating a spherical Earth and existence of land. By this action, all navigators and ship owners were effectively under the control of the christian church, given without charts and navigation instruments they could not complete long journeys.
  Offences causing major property damage: (391-399): That upon the order of Christian Emperoror Theodosius that all pagan temples across the Roman Empire must be closed and that Christianity was now the official religion, Pope Siricius along with the other christian patriarchs and their bishops did organize the wholesale and systematic destruction of every major centre of learning, the total and complete destruction of the Library of Alexandria, one of the seven ancient wonders of the world, the destruction of all major libraries across the Empire, as well as the complete demolition of all major historic locations and temple complexes. The total damage undertaken consistent with the Papal plan of “ground zero” is priceless and irreplaceable as virtually the entire history of the human race for the northern hemisphere was consciously and deliberately destroyed. A conservative estimate of just building damage is between $80 and $200 Billion (US 2006 equivelent dollars).
  Of crimes against humanity: (391 – 399 CE): That during the reign of Pope Siricius and in conjunction with the other patriarchs of the Christian church that approximately 700,000 to 1,400,000 people representing teachers, doctors, nurses, pagan priests, scribes and other individuals of education and skill were systematically identified and murdered across the Roman Empire thereby rendering virtually every single significant population without proper educators, doctors, nor skills.
Furthermore, that the organized Christian mobs did destroy all medical books, medicine information, precision surgical equipment along with the murder of all educated professionals so that medical science did not reach comparable levels of knowledge, nor precision medical equipment until the last thirty years of the twentieth century, a period of ignorance and darkness lasting over 1,500 years. That this was done upon orders and as a deliberate strategy to enable the Christian church to control all aspects of life and death.
  Of crimes against humanity: (391 CE) That Patriarch Theophilus of Alexandria upon obtaining the order of Emperoror Theodosius did deliberately and systematically destroy the significant complex of buildings known as the Great Library of Alexandria. That this action was done not only to remove competing threats to Christianity but also to complete the plan of returning the world to the stone age under the control of the Christian church by destroying the collective memory of humanity.
     
   

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