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Flacilla.jpg Arcadius, Honorius, Pulcheria Full name Aelia
Flavia Flaccilla Augusta Born 31 March 356 Died early 386  Aelia
Flavia Flaccilla (died 386), was a Roman empress and first wife
of the Roman Emperor Theodosius I. She was of Hispanian Roman
descent. During her marriage to Theodosius, she gave birth to
two sons — future Emperors Arcadius and Honorius — and a
daughter, Aelia Pulcheria. She was titled Augusta, as her
coinage shows.   According to Laus Serenae ("In Praise of
Serena"), a poem by Claudian, both Serena and Flaccilla were
from Hispania.[1]  A passage of Themistius (Oratio XVI, De
Saturnino) has been interpreted as identifying Flavius Claudius
Antonius, Praetorian prefect of Gaul from 376 to 377 and Roman
consul in 382, to be her father. However the relation is
considered doubtful.[2] In 1967, John Robert Martindale, later
one of several article writers in the Prosopograp