The Death of Valentinian

The death of valentinine the third marks the end of an era in roman history. Maximus, banking on the ironclad law that fortune favored the bold, was the first one to step forward and declare his willingness to rule the western empire. The wayward honoria had been exiled shortly after her wedding posal to attila; then she simply disappears from the historical record. To legitimize his claim, he quickly married t emperor's widow,. which, as i noted when etius married bonifacius widow, must have been pretty gross for her.