Placidia Puns

Galla Placidia: Princess, Queen, and then Empress. And, perhaps, the first ruler in history to understand societal collapse in terms of system dynamics. She may have consciously ushered the Middle Ages by hastening the fall of the Roman Empire. So that she may deserve the title of "The Mother of the Middle Ages"

Here, I tell her story in a video clip and in writing.

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https://thesenecaeffect.blogspot.com/2021/04/empress-placidia-mother-of-middle-ages.html

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The amazing Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna, Italy. Sister of Emperor Honorius, instrumental to the transferring of the capital of the Western Roman Empire from Milan to Ravenna in 402 AD, Galla Placidia had this small Latin cross casket built for herself around 425-450 AD; however it was not used since the empress, died in Rome in 450 AD, and was buried there.

For more info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum_of_Galla_Placidia

Our sources for the early 5th century tell us that Ataulf, King of the Goths following Alaric’s death in 411, believed Gothic martial vigor could be used to restore Roman supremacy. In the same way the Illyrian Emperors of the 4th century, he envisioned an energetic Gotho-Roman dynasty stabilizing the Roman west.

What if that happened, what if Ataulf rules his Goths and stood as regent for his 9 year old Emperor son. Who then went on to to be King of the western Goths and Emperor of the West.

I was listening to Mark Duncan's History of Rome podcast, which I highly recommend to any and all, and I started to learn about the exciting life and times of one Aelia Galla Placidia and couldn't help but notice the parallels between her story and that of Daeny. Now, George R. R. Martin is a well known student of history and has talks about dozens of different influences and sources he's pulled from to make various characters and events. But I haven't been able to find anyone else mention this anywhere else, so I wanted to share some of her story.

Aelia Galla Placidia was the grand daughter of the Emperor Valentinian the Great on her mother's side and the daughter of the Emperor Theodosius the Great and half-sister to the Emperors Arcadius and Honorius. She was born in 388AD and was in Rome when King Alaric of the Visigoths showed up and began besieging it. Through means and reasons unknown, Placidia ended up captured by said barbarian horde before they ended up famously sacking Rome in 410AD. She was carted around with them for a while until Alaric died and Ataulf became king. Ataulf was trying to find a place for the Visigoths in the Roman empire and after killing off the right people to win the Emperor Honorius' favor, married her in a lavish ceremony. So, woman of imperial blood married to a barbarian king, sound familiar?

But it gets better. Not for Ataulf sadly. Galla Placidia only had one child with Ataulf, a baby named Theodosius, which Ataulf certainly hoped would cement his people's bloodline in the Imperial court. This child would not live past it's first year and die tragically when Placidia was 27. That same year, Ataulf would be assassinated in the bath by a rival tribe member leaving a power vaccuum. First born son and husband die tragically before their time? Check.

The Visigoths were momentarily ruled by the assassin's brother, Sigeric. I say momentarily because he's only recorded as ruling for approximately a week. Sigeric apparently treated Placidia terribly because of her ties to the old king and reportedly made her walk 12 miles on foot while chained up to his horse, along with several other slaves. Being chained up and treated like dirt by the same people who she had once been the queen of? Check.

Sigeric was murdered and replaced by Wallia who quickly surrendered himself to Constantius III, the effective ruler behind the throne of Honorius. Placidia was returned to the royal court in exchange for rights to settle in Roman territ

If this infant had survived then there would have been a possibility of a Romano-Visigothic line, no idea what that would entail.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.