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Flavius Theodosius (
10 April,
401 –
July 28,
450), known in English as
Theodosius II, was an
Eastern Roman Emperor (reign
408-450), mostly known for the law code bearing his name, the
Codex Theodosianus, and the
Theodosian Walls of
Constantinople (modern-day
Istanbul) built during his reign.
Life
The eldest son of
Aelia Eudoxia and Eastern Emperor
Arcadius, Theodosius was heavily influenced by his eldest sister
Pulcheria, who pushed him towards
Eastern Christianity. Pulcheria was the primary driving power behind the emperor and many of her views became official policy. These included her
anti-Semitic view which resulted in the destruction of
synagogues. He ordered the execution of
Gamaliel VI, the
Nasi of the
Jewish
Sanhedrin in 425 for authorising the building of new synagogues, and abolished the office.
On the death of his father Arcadius in
408, Theodosius became emperor. Because of his minority however, real power was exercised by the
praetorian prefect of the East Anthemius until his dismissal in 413. It was under Anthemius' supervision that the
Theodosian land walls of Constantinople were constructed.
In June
421, Theodosius married the poet
Aelia Eudocia. They had a daughter,
Licinia Eudoxia, whose marriage with the
Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III marked the re-unification of the two halves of the Empire, even if for a short time. Theodosius created the
University of Constantinople, and died in 450 as the result of a riding accident.
Theodosius' Law Code
In
429, Theodosius appointed a commission to collect all of the laws since the reign of
Constantine I, and create a fully formalized system of law. This plan was left unfinished, but the work of a second commission that met in Constantinople, assigned to collect all of the general legislations and bring them up to date was completed, and their collection published as the
Codex Theodosianus in
438. The law code of Theodosius II, summarizing edicts promulgated since Constantine, informed a basis for the law code of Emperor
Justinian I in the following century.
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