Palladius (Caesar)

Palladius (* 420, † probably early June 455 ) was in the spring of 455 co-ruler of the Western Roman Emperor Petronius Maximus.

According Hydatius Palladius was a son of Petronius Maximus from a previous marriage. In the second half of the 430er 's, he could have held the praetorship. Following the acquisition of the rule on March 17, 455 his father appointed him Caesar and married him to Eudocia, daughter of Valentinian III a. Because Eudocia, however, was already engaged with the Vandals Huneric, whose father Genseric took the forced marriage as an opportunity to attack Rome. Petronius Maximus was on May 31, 455 killed on the run, where he was stoned depending on the source of Burgundian foederati or the plebs urbana or killed by a Roman soldier named Ursus. After that, the trail of Palladius, who in all likelihood also found the death loses.

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• Hydatius, Chronica s.a., 455.31