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Carney & Wehofer Family
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 401 - 460 (59 years)
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| Name |
Eudocia (Athenais) Of Athens |
| Born |
401 |
Athens, Greece  |
| Gender |
Female |
| _UID |
F8EFC2C9646243EBBB00ABC3F598CF644F60 |
| Died |
20 Oct 460 |
Jerusalem, Palestine |
| Person ID |
I27778 |
Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
5 Feb 2012 |
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| Notes |
- Eudocia, original name Athenais (d. 20 Oct 460, Jerusalem), wife of theEastern Roman emperor Theodosius II. She was a highly cultured woman whoexercised great influence over her husband until her withdrawal fromConstantinople.
Athenais, as she was then called, came from Athens, where her father,Leontius, was a pagan philosopher. Before she and Theodosius were married(in June 421), Athenais was baptized a Christian and changed her name toEudocia. A year later she gave birth to a daughter, Licinia Eudoxia, whomarried (437) the Western emperor Valentinian II (reigned 425-455). In438 Eudocia went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. After a quarrel withTheodosius' influential sister Pulcheria, she returned to Jerusalem in443 and remained there for the rest of her life, directing the rebuildingof that city's fortifications and the construction of several splendidchurches.
Eudocia was sympathetic to Monophysitism - a heresy that maintained thatChrist's human nature is absorbed in his divine nature - but she died anorthodox Christian. In addition to religious poetry she wrote a panegyricon the Roman victory over the Perians (422). [Encylopaedia Britannica,1995]
Eudocia was the wife of the Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius II andmother of Licinia Eudoxia, who married the Western Roman EmperorsValentinian III and Petronius Maximus.
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