Talk:Galla Placidia

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Contents 1 Saint Peter's cathedral 2 Rephrased 3 Dates 4 Portrait caption wrong?

[edit] Saint Peter's cathedral

She had a son, Theodosius, by the Visigothic king, but he died in infancy, was buried in Barcelona, but years later the corpse was exhumed and reburied in the imperial mausoleum in Saint Peter's cathedral.

This is far from clear. What is Saint Peter's cathedral? The great St. Peter's basilica in Rome was never a cathedral. There may be cathedrals dedicated to St. Peter elsewhere.

Sebastjan

A google check confirmed this so-called Saint Peter's cathedral is the Saint Peter's Basilica. Any refernce to confirm that there is a mausoleim in Saint Peter's Basilica?User:kt2

[edit] Rephrased

This sentence "They had a son who became Valentinian III and his rather more strong-willed sister, Justa Grata Honoria. " implies that the son was a transsexual -- "who became ... his rather more strong-willed sister" I have changed it to say that they also had a strong-willed daughter. ThePedanticPrick 18:03, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Dates

Can the dates be correct here? This article is linked to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandals#Sack_of_Rome

which claims that Placidia was captured in 455 AD. If that article is correct, then Placidia can not have died on November 27, 450 five years before she was captured.

[edit] Portrait caption wrong?

The caption in the portrait seems wrong to me. See the full picture at Valentinian III. If Galla Placidia was the mother of the two, shouldn't she be the oldest woman, in the middle? FilipeS 00:36, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Hang on, isn't the portrait shown here that of Justa Grata Honoria? If you compare the other wikis, it seems that way. Of the two women in the original, the woman at the bottom right looks older than the woman at the top, and therefore Galla Placidia, with the younger woman being Honoria. Does anyone actually know? The coin portraits are no help at all. Djnjwd 23:40, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

The caption has been recently changed. FilipeS 16:45, 1 December 2007 (UTC)