Marcian - ܡܪܩܝܢܘܣ
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Byzantine Emperor who called together the Council of Chalcedon.3
Names
Floruit
450-457
Death
January 27,
457
Notes
Byzantine Emperor who called together the Council of Chalcedon.3 "After the death of Theodosius II in 450, the influential generals Aspar and Ardabur brought Marcian, a member of their retinue, to the throne. In order to legitimise the new emperor, a marriage with Theodosius' sister Pulcheria was organised. Marcian convoked the Council of Chalcedon in 451 and ruled until his death in early 457."8Status: draft
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- 1 E. W. Brooks and E. W. Brooks, eds., Letters LXII to CXVII, in A Collection of Letters of Severus of Antioch , from Numerous Syriac Manuscripts, Patrologia Orientalis 14 (Paris: Firmin-Didot et cie, 1919), p: 296.
- 2 E. W. Brooks and E. W. Brooks, eds., Letters I to LXI, in A Collection of Letters of Severus of Antioch , from Numerous Syriac Manuscripts, Patrologia Orientalis 12 (Paris: Firmin-Didot et cie, 1919), p: 236.
- 3 E. W. Brooks and E. W. Brooks, eds., Letters I to LXI, in A Collection of Letters of Severus of Antioch , from Numerous Syriac Manuscripts, Patrologia Orientalis 12 (Paris: Firmin-Didot et cie, 1919), p: 236; 296.
- 4 J. R. Martindale, A.D. 395-527 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), p: 715.
- 5 J. R. Martindale, A.D. 395-527 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), p: 714-15entry: Marcianus 8.
- 6 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini Historiae Ecclesiasticae Pars Tertia, 2 vols., CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935), p: 264chapter: 3.5.14.
- 7 J. R. Martindale, A.D. 395-527 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), entry: Marcianus 8p: 714-715.
- 8 J. R. Martindale, A.D. 395-527 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), p: 714-715.
- 9 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini Historiae Ecclesiasticae Pars Tertia, 2 vols., CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935), p: 264.
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