Honoria

Justa Grata Honoria (Ravenne, 416 or 417, Constantinople, 455 or 457?), Roman princess, girl of Official reception Placidia and Constancy III, sister of the emperor of Occident Valentinien III. A currency prescise which it carried the title of Augusta .

Co-empress with Ravenne, it is forced by her younger brother Valentinien III of living chastement in order to safeguard the unit of the capacity. But Honoria takes a lover, Eugene, in 449 and the scandal bursts. She is sent to Constantinople to be kept better there, while Eugene is condemned to death.

Spring 450, Honoria, retained in Constantinople, asks for secretly the assistance of Attila and him sending his ring. Attila accepts the offer and claims in Valentinien Gaulle like dowry. Honoria is repatriated urgently with Rome where the court settled into 450, and after a phony marriage, one makes it disappear. Attila claims the respect of the interests of its “protected”, which Valentinien refuses (autumn 450). Attila prepares to invade Gaulle.

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