Valentinian, the Third Emperor of the Roman Empire, Died of Natural Causes

On august fifteenth, four 23 a d the empire was rocked by the shocking news that honorius had died from what later scholars have diagnosed as a dema of the lungs. The next year, castinus was back in italy, planning the next phase of the operation. Now, as you are well aware, honorius died without an heir of his own and we've got a healthy, young valentinian the third ready to step in and don the purple. But he is not in ravenna or italy, or anywhere in the western empire. He is in constantinople with his mother, which is about to complicate things.