Eudoxy (wife of Arcadius)
See also: Eudoxie
Eudoxie ( Eudoxia Aelia ) was Impératrice of the East by her marriage with the emperor Arcadius in 395. She is the girl of a frank general of Théodose Ier, Bauto. Thanks to its exceptional beauty, it is indicated by eunuque the Eutrope in order to decrease the influence of Rufin which wished to marry the emperor with his daughter. Ambitious princess, it does not hesitate herself to then get rid of this one in 399 in order to dominate itself the weak spirit of her husband. The second with being eliminated is stirring up it general goth Gaïnas in 400, of which it makes massacre the soldiers by crowd, which causes the escape of this last. It scandalizes the Chrétiens by its luxury and its love of ostentation. She is blamed besides by it by the Patriarche of Constantinople Jean Chrysostome. To be avenged, it makes it exile twice in spite of its influence on Arcadius. It had four children, of which Théodose II and Pulchérie. She dies in October 404 following a miscarriage.
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