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'''Flavius Theodosius II''' (Greek Θεοδόσιος Β') ([[April]], [[401]] - [[July 28]], [[450]] ). The eldest son of Eudoxia and [[Arcadius]] who at the age of 7 became [[Byzantine Emperors|Byzantine Emperor]].

He was heavily influenced by his eldest sister [[Pulcheria]] who pushed him towards [[Eastern_Orthodoxy|orthodox Christianity]]. Pulcheria was the primary driving power behind the emperor and many of her views became official policy.

On the death of his father Arcadius in [[408]], he became Emperor. In June [[421]] Theodosius married the poet [[Aelia Eudocia]]. They had a daughter, [[Licinia Eudoxia]], whose marriage with the Western Roman Emperor, Valentinian III, marked the re-unification of the two halves of the Empire, even if for a short time. Theodosius created the [[Constantinople University]], and died in 450 as the result of a riding accident.

==The Theodosian Code==

In [[429]] Theodosius appointed a commission to collect all of the laws since the reign of [[Constantine I (emperor)|Constantine]], allegedly the first Christian emperor, and create a fully formalized system of law. This plan was left unfinished, but the work of a second commission that met in Constantinople, assigned to collect all of the general legislations and bring them up to date was completed, and their collection published as the ''[[Codex Theodosianus]]'' in [[438]]. The law code of Theodosius II, summarizing edicts made since the first Christian emperor Constantine, provided a basis for the law code of Justinian in the following century. Roman intolerance of impiety with respect to ritual was now extended to crimes of conscience and of thought.

==See also==
* [[House of Theodosius]]
* [[Colossus of Barletta]]

==External links==
*[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/BURLAT/7*.html Reign of Theodosius II] (chapter of [[J. B. Bury]]'s History of the Later Roman Empire)
*[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/codex-theod1.html Theodosian Code:] Sections concerning religious observances (English)
*[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Codex_Theodosianus.html George Long, "Codex Theodosianus"]

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 ==External links==
-*[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/BURLAT/7*.html Reign of Theodosius II] (chapter of [[J. B. Bury]]'s History of the Later Roman Empire)
+*[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/BURLAT/7*.html Reign of Theodosius II] (chapter of J. B. Bury's History of the Later Roman Empire)
 *[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/codex-theod1.html Theodosian Code:] Sections concerning religious observances (English)
 *[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Codex_Theodosianus.html George Long, "Codex Theodosianus"]