Valentinianus Galates

Valentinianus Galates (Greek: Ούαλεντινιανός Γαλάτης, 18 January 366 – ) was the only son of the Roman emperor Valens, who ruled the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity. Born into the ruling Valentinianic dynasty, Valentinianus became Roman consul as an infant, but he died in early childhood, and the empire passed to the sons and daughter of Valentinian the Great, Valentinianus Galates's uncle. According to the 4th- and 5th-century ecclesiastical histories written by Nicene Christians, Valentinianus died as a result of his father's Arian Christianity. Life Valentinianus was the third child of the emperor Valens and the augusta Albia Dominica, their only son. According to the Consularia Constantinopolitana, Valentinianus was born on 18 January 366. According to the work of the contemporary orator Themistius, he was born beside the Danube, where the Danubian Limes marked the frontier of the empire. He was possibly born in Galatia, which would explain his epithet in . This name was used by the 4th-century Greek church historians Socrates Scholasticus and Sozomen and by the Chronicon Paschale. The Consularia Constantinopolitana and the Greek orations of Themistius on the other hand refer to him as Valentinianus.