Ruler · 392 – 457

Marcian

Lived 392 – 457; politician. Byzantine emperor of Byzantine Empire, 450 – 457.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 392 – 457; 65 years
In office: 7 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Byzantine Empire
Left it: died in office; Wikidata's manner of death

Byzantine emperor

Byzantine Empire · the 11th of 113 dated reigns · 337 – 1453

7 before

Theodosius II408 – 450

Aelia Eudocia421 – 450

Pulcheria450 – 453

Marcian450 – 457

Leo I457 – 474

Verina457 – 474

Leo II474

99 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 450 – 457 · 7 years · came to it aged 58

Came to it: seized powerthe spouse of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeWikidata's manner of death: natural causes; disease

Like his successor Leo I, he was proclaimed emperor by the army at the Hebdomon.

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