68 Valentinian II

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

Comedy, History

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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It's tough being 4 years old. Everything is too big, you have to eat your greens, you are getting to grips with this toilet business, and your mother and the most powerful bishop in the west of the empire are playing tug-of-war with your existence. Oh, and a scary man with a cool name, who already killed your brother, is coming to kill you also. It took Little Val several years before he attempted to get control over his fate... in retrospect, maybe he shouldn't have bothered.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalis Rankium.
0:11.0	This week, Valentinia 2. Hello and welcome to Roman Emperor, So Talus Rankium. I am Jamie.
0:28.8	And I'm Rob, ranking all the emperors from Augustus to Augustulus, and this is episode 68, one away from the Big Six-9.
0:36.3	It's Valentinian two.
0:38.5	Two.
0:39.3	Yes.
0:40.6	You've been looking forward to this one, haven't you?
0:42.5	Not really.
0:43.8	No.
0:45.3	Poor Valentinian, too.
0:47.5	I doubt anyone ever looked forward to him ever.
0:49.9	No.
0:50.3	I'm more excited for next week and Theodosius.
0:53.8	Theodosius is next week. Or is it? No, it is. Yeah, okay. Yeah, it is. Yeah. But this is the beauty of this podcast, though. Everyone knows about Theodosius, apart from you. Who? But people don't know much about Valentinian tea. So let's dig into his life, shall we? Yes, we will.
1:11.6	Yeah.
1:12.2	Let's dive into this.
1:14.3	Valentinian 2.
1:15.4	He was born in 371.
1:17.3	He was a child of the 70s.
1:19.6	He was the second son of Valentinian, the younger brother of Gratian.
1:23.6	His mother was Justina, who, if you remember, was Magnentius' widow.
1:29.0	You remember Magnentius, revolted, drunken coup?
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