Portrait
Aelia Flacilla (wife of Theodosius I)
Cyzicus, 383-388 CE
BI 4.55g, 23mm, 6h
AEL FLACILLA AVG, draped bust to right, wearing elaborate headdress
SALVS REI PVBLICAE, empress standing facing, head to right, arms folded on breast; SMKΓ in exergue.
RIC IX 24; LRBC 2567
376 CE

Aelia Flacilla marries Theodosius I, then a high ranking general.

377 CE

Birth of son Arcadius to Aelia Flacilla and Theodosius I in Italica.

379 CE
January 19

Theodosius succeeds Valens as emperor. Aelia Flacilla becomes empress.

384 CE
September 9

Birth of son Honorius to Aelia Flacilla and Theodosius.

386 CE

Aelia Flacilla, the wife of Theodosius, dies.