In 425, the emperor Honorius died, leaving his nephew, Valentinian, to become the new emperor of the Western Roman Empire. However, not everyone supported this decision, and with Galla Placidia and Valentinian in Constantinople, John, one of the palace officials, attempted to take power for himself. The result was a power struggle in which the Western generals came to feature prominently, and which would start the meteoric rise of Flavius Aetius, backed by the Huns, to power in the Western Empire in Late Antiquity.

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