# After Maximus’s fall, Valentinian II is restored in the West under Theodosius’s military shadow

Date: 388

## The fact

Britannica treats Theodosius’s western intervention as restoring the Valentinianic house. DIR independently narrates the postwar western arrangement.

It is one event.

## Context

Putting a named legitimate Augustus back in the West is a resilience offset. Puppet-status allegations stay allegations. Civil-war dead stay on the war row.

[Theodosius I](/people/theodosius-i)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Restoration of the legitimate western child-emperor is the received political outcome of 388, distinct from Maximus’s killing. Valentinian’s later death in 392 is another file.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica — Theodosius I and De Imperatoribus Romanis — Theodosius I independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Theodosius I (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodosius-I; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Valentinian’s restoration is a [democratic-resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience) path of medium confidence on actual autonomy, high that Maximus’s regime ended.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a sourced public record of this instrument at the date assigned here.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Theodosius I.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `democratic-resilience` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Theodosius I did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not rebate the war’s dead with this restoration. Do not merge with 392. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Theodosius I.

## People

- Theodosius I: https://factrail.ai/people/theodosius-i

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://roman-emperors.sites.luc.edu/theo1.htm
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodosius-I

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/theo-valentinian-restored-388