Valentinian II
Roman emperor from 375 to 392
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Made emperor at four, dead at twenty-one under circumstances his own court couldn't agree on. Between those points: a half-brother murdered by a usurper, exile, restoration by an uncle who ran the show, and a final attempt to fire the general who may have killed him.
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Born in 371 to emperor Valentinian I and empress Justina, he was elevated to the purple at age four in 375 by military commanders upon his father's death — the youngest emperor the Western Roman Empire would see. Until 383 he remained junior partner to his older half-brother Gratian, while their uncle Valens and later Theodosius I governed the East. When the usurper Magnus Maximus killed Gratian in 383, Valentinian II's court in Milan became a battleground between Nicene and Arian Christians. Maximus invaded Italy in 387, forcing Valentinian II and his family to flee to Thessalonica and plead…
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