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FLAVIUS VALENS

Flavius Valens was a Roman emperor of the East from 364 to 378. He was born in 328 and died in 378. He was the younger brother of Valentinian I, who associated Flavius Valens with him in the government, assigning to him the Eastern provinces. His reign was marked by fighting with the Persians and with the Goths, the latter of whom, pressed by the Huns on the east, menaced the north-east frontier of the empire. Flavius Valens let them settle in Thrace, but at the disastrous battle of Adrianopie, on August the 9th, 378, the Roman arms were completely defeated, and Flavius Valens disappeared. During his reign the Arian controversy raged fiercely. The emperor himself was a supporter of the Arians and persecuted orthodox Christians.
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