Marcian
Eastern Roman (Byzantine) emperor (390-457)
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Updated 2026-06-08
He stopped paying Attila the Hun, then invaded the Hunnic heartland while the warlord was busy sacking Italy. A former assistant turned emperor by marriage and military backers, Marcian ended Rome's tribute humiliation and left the treasury flush — then called a church council that split his empire along doctrinal lines.
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Marcian spent fifteen years as a domesticus under commanders Ardabur and his son Aspar before anyone imagined him on a throne. When Emperor Theodosius II died on 28 July 450, Aspar — who controlled the military muscle — made Marcian his candidate. After a month of negotiating, Theodosius's sister Pulcheria agreed to marry him, and he was inaugurated on 25 August 450. He immediately tore up every treaty with Attila and stopped all subsidy payments. In 452, while Attila raided Italy, Marcian sent expeditions across the Danube into the Great Hungarian Plain and beat the Huns in their own territor…
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