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MARCIAN (c. 390-457)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 691 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAL-MAR
MARCIAN (c. 390-457) , emperor of the
East
  (450-457), was born in Thrace or Illyria, and spent his early life as an obscuresoldier. He subsequently served for nineteen years under Ardaburius and Aspar, and took
part
  in the wars against the Persians and Vandals. Through the influence of these generals he became a captain of the
guards
 , and was later raised to the rank of tribune and senator. On the death of Theodosius II. he was chosen as
consort
  by the latter's
sister
  and successor, Pulcheria, and called upon to govern an
empire
  greatly humbled and impoverished by the ravages of the Huns. Marcian repudiated the payment of
tribute
  to
Attila
 ; he reformed the finances, checked extravagance, and repeopled the devastated districts. He repelled attacks upon Syria and
Egypt
  (452), and quelled disturbances on the Armenian frontier (456). The other notable event of his reign is the Council of Chalcedon (451), in which Marcian endeavoured to mediate between the rival schools of theology.
See Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire
  (ed. Bury, London, 1896), iii. 384, iv. 444445; J. Bury, The Later Roman Empire (London, 1889), i. 135136.


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