This article is about the empress. For her aunt, see Pulcheria (daughter of Theodosius I). For the genus of moth, see Pulcheria (moth).
Pulcheria
Augusta
Solidus of Pulcheria
Roman empress
(in the East)
Tenure
25 August 450 – July 453
Born
19 January 398 or 399 Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey)
Died
July 453 Probably Constantinople (aged 53–55) (now Istanbul, Turkey)
Spouse
Marcian
House
House of Theodosius
Dynasty
Theodosian
Father
Arcadius
Mother
Aelia Eudoxia
Religion
Nicene Christianity
Aelia Pulcheria (/ˈiːliəpʌlˈkɪriə/; Greek: Πουλχερία; 19 January 398 or 399 – July 453)[1] was an Eastern Roman empress who advised her brother emperor Theodosius II during his minority and then became wife to emperor Marcian from November 450 to her death in 453.
She was the second (and oldest surviving) child of Eastern Roman Emperor Arcadius and Empress Aelia Eudoxia. In 414, the fifteen-year old Pulcheria became the guardian of her younger brother Theodosius II[2] and was also proclaimed Augusta. Through her religious devotion and involvement in the contemporary ecclesiastical scene, Pulcheria had significant, though changing, influence and political power during her brother's reign. When Theodosius II died on 26 July 450, Pulcheria married Marcian on 25 November 450, while simultaneously not violating her vow of virginity. She died three years later, in July 453.
Pulcheria influenced the Christian Church and its theological development by being involved in the Council of Ephesus and guiding the Council of Chalcedon, in which the Church ruled on christological issues. The Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church subsequently recognized her as a saint.
^"Saint Pulcheria". 28 June 2009.
^Holum, Kenneth G. Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1982. p. 97
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