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VALENTINIAN I

Flavius Gratianus Valentinianus, known as Valentinian I, was Roman emperor of the West, from 364 to 375. He was born in 321 at Cibalis in Pannonia and died in 375. He rose to high rank in the army, and on his election by the troops as emperor after the death of Jovian he associated his brother Flavius Valens with himself in the government of the empire. The rebellion of Procopius was crushed in 366. There was fighting against the Alamanni on the Rhine frontier, which kept Valentinian I in Gaul for a great part of his reign. He was a ruler of considerable ability, and endeavoured to alleviate the condition of his subjects now grievously burdened by taxation. He was prone, however, to ungovernable fits of passion, in one of which he burst a blood-vessel and died. A Catholic Christian, he tolerated Arianism and all forms of religion.
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