Pulcheria Augusta

Eastern Roman empress (Augusta)|399-453 AD|Constantinople
Aelia Pulcheria (399-453) was the elder sister of the emperor Theodosius II and one of the most powerful women of the late Roman world. Proclaimed Augusta in 414, she effectively governed the Eastern empire from Constantinople as her brother's regent and guardian, publicly vowing perpetual virginity and shaping the imperial court along devoutly Christian lines. After Theodosius's death in 450 she secured the throne by marrying the general Marcian, and she was the decisive imperial patron of the Council of Chalcedon (451), which condemned the Monophysite position and defined the orthodox doctrine of Christ's two natures. The five surviving letters from Pope Leo the Great are part of the extensive correspondence in which he urged her support against Eutyches and Dioscorus, and she was venerated as a saint after her death.
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