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Maria empress

Maria (377-407) was Empress of the Western Roman Empire from 398 to 407 as the wife of Honorius. She was the daughter of the half-Vandal general and regent Stilicho.

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Maria was the daughter of the half-Vandal general and statesman Stilicho and the Roman noblewoman Serena, and she was the niece of Emperor Theodosius I. In 398, she married her maternal first cousin Honorius, who was the Western Roman emperor. The young Honorius never consummated his marriage with Maria, who died a virgin in 407.

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