Gratian otherwise Gratianus Augustus, was a Roman Emperor. He was born in 359 and died in about 386. The eldest son of the Emperor Valentinian I, when he was only eight years of age he was raised by his father to the rank of Augustus. On the death of Valentinian in 375 the Eastern Empire remained subject to Valens, and Gratian was obliged to share the western part with his half-brother, Valentinian II, then four years old. In 378 he succeeded to the Eastern Empire, which he bestowed on Theodosius I. He was deserted by his soldiers while leading them against Maximus, and put to death at Lyons in the eighth year of his reign. Research Gratian
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