Flavius Julius Eucherius (d. after 395) was a Roman politician and member of the

Theodosian Dynasty The Theodosian dynasty was a Roman imperial family that produced five Roman emperors during Late Antiquity, reigning over the Roman Empire from 379 to 457. The dynasty's patriarch was Count Theodosius, Theodosius the Elder, whose son Theodosius t ...

Biography

He was the son of

Flavius Honorius Honorius (; 9 September 384 – 15 August 423) was Roman emperor from 393 to 423. He was the younger son of emperor Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla. After the death of Theodosius in 395, Honorius, under the regency of Stilicho, ...

. His brother was Count Theodosius the Elder.Zosimus, New History, Vol. V, 2,3-4 Eucherius began his service under the reign of Emperor Julian, continued during the reign of

Valentinian I Valentinian I (; 32117 November 375), also known as Valentinian the Great, was Roman emperor from 364 to 375. He ruled the Western Roman Empire, Western half of the empire, while his brother Valens ruled the Byzantine Empire, East. During his re ...

. He enjoyed the support of Empress Justina.Codex Theodosianus, 32, 3; X, 20, 9 In 377 AD, Gratian appointed him to the fiscal office of '' Comes sacrarum largitonum.''Themistius, Or, XVI, 203d In 379 AD, after the accession of his nephew

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to the

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, his position at court was greatly strengthened. In 381 AD, Eucherius became consul together with Flavius Syagrius as his colleague.Aurelius Victor, XLVIII, 18 In 393 AD, he appealed to the

Praetorian Prefect of the East The praetorian prefecture of the East, or of the Orient (, ) was one of four large praetorian prefectures into which the Late Roman Empire was divided. As it comprised the larger part of the Eastern Roman Empire, and its seat was at Constantinop ...

, Rufinus regarding the punishment for an insult by

Lucian Lucian of Samosata (Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridi ...

, the '' Comes Orientus.'' In 395 AD, he contributed to the overthrow of Rufinus by Flavius Stilicho.Jones, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. 1: AD 260 to 395 AD p.288 His further fate is unknown.

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