Licinia Eudoxia

Licinia Eudoxia (* 422, † 462) was the daughter of Aelia Eudocia and the Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius II 437 Since she was with the Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III, the cousin of her father married. . They had two daughters, Eudocia and Placidia.

After the assassination of Valentinian in 455 ( an act of revenge because he had previously killed his overbearing commander Aetius ) Licinia Eudoxia was with his successor Petronius Maximus forced into marriage in order to give his reign legitimacy. Only weeks later, the Vandals under Genseric landed in front of the city of Rome, ostensibly at the invitation Licinia Eudoxias that they should have launched against Maximus to help. This was killed, and the Vandals led Licinia Eudoxia and her two daughters in their empire to Africa, where Eudocia Genseric's son Huneric married, with whom she had been betrothed since 442. Licinia Eudoxia was 460 to Jerusalem, where it was followed also Eudocia, after she had given birth to a son named Huneric Hilderic. This grandson of Licinia Eudoxia should prevail later 523-530 over the Vandals.

On a foundation Eudoxias the Roman Basilica of San Pietro goes back in Chains.