Person:Serena Van Spanje (8)
Serena Van Spanje
b.379
d.408 Rome
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Serena Van Spanje379 - 408
Spouse and Children
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m. 384
  1. Thermantia _____325 - 415
  2. _____ Maria - 407
  3. Eucher _____
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Facts and Events
Name Serena Van Spanje
Gender Female
Birth? 379
Marriage 384 to General Flavius Stilicho
Death? 408 Rome
Reference Number? Q257819?


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Serena was a noblewoman of the late Western Roman Empire. In 384, Theodosius arranged her marriage to a rising military officer, Stilicho. Stilicho's marriage to Serena ensured his loyalty to the House of Theodosius in the years ahead.

A resident at the court of her cousin, Honorius, she selected a bride for the court poet, Claudian, and took care of Honorius' half-sister, her cousin Galla Placidia. She and Stilicho had a son, Eucherius, and two daughters, Maria and Thermantia, both of whom married Honorius.

Zosimus records how Serena, a Christian, took a necklace from a statue of Rhea Silvia and placed it on her own neck. An old woman, the last of the Vestal Virgins, appeared, who rebuked Serena and called down punishment upon her for her act of impiety. Serena was then subject to dreadful dreams predicting her own untimely death.

Stilicho was executed on Honorius' orders in 408. During the siege of Rome by the Visigoths the following year, Serena was falsely accused of conspiring with the Goths, and was executed with Galla Placidia's consent.

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