Valentinianus Galates

Flavius ​​Valentinian Galates (Greek Ουαλεντινιανός Γαλάτης; born January 18, 366, † 370 or 372 in Caesarea, Cappadocia, or Antioch ) was the son of the Roman Emperor Valens and his wife Albia Domnica. He had two older sisters named Anastasia and Carusa.

Galates - the name probably refers to his ( unknown ) birthplace in Galatia - came at a time of year that his father Valens had to deal with the usurper Procopius. After Valens ' brother Valentinian I had his eight year old son Gratian appointed 367 as co-emperor, Valens also provided the dynastic points by implicitly for future Caesar designate his two year old son to the consul of the year 369 and. As an educator of the heir to the orator and philosopher Themistius offered.

But shortly after Galates became ill and died. The early death was a severe blow, which was accompanied by religious scandals and rumors for the royal couple. Church historian Socrates Scholasticus According to the Domnica to have her husband of visions reported, after the serious illness of her son was a punishment from God for the bad treatment of the Metropolitan Basil of Caesarea. When the bishop was asked by Valens to pray for the welfare of the child, he should have made his or her survival depends on a rejection of the Emperor of Arianism. However, Valens refused and was baptized the terminally ill Galates after arianischem rite. Then Basil predicted the imminent death of the boy, who then entered.