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Encyclopedia > Flavia Julia Constantia

Flavia Julia Constantia, also Constantia, (after AD 293 – about 330), was the daughter of the Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus and his second wife, Flavia Maximiana Theodora. Events March 1 - Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus and Galerius as Caesars. ... Roman Emperor is the title historians use to refer to rulers of the Roman Empire, after the epoch conventionally named the Roman Republic. ... Gaius Flavius Valerius Constantius (March 31, 250–July 25, 306) was an emperor of the Western Roman Empire (305–306). ... Flavia Maximiana Theodora (known as Theodora) was the daughter or step-daughter of Maximian. ...


In 313, emperor Constantine I, who was half-brother of Constantia, gave her in marriage to his co-emperor Licinius, on occasion of their meeting in Mediolanum. She bore a son, Valerius Licinianus Licinius, in 315, and when the struggle between Constantine and Licinius began in 316, she stayed on her husband's side. A second war started between the two emperors in 324; after Licinius' defeat, Constantia interceded with Constantine for her husband's life. Constantine spared Licinius life, and obliged him to live in Thessalonica as a private citizen, but the following year (325), he ordered that Licinius be killed. A second blow for Constantia was the death, also by order of Constantine, of her son Licinianus. For other uses, see 313 (disambiguation). ... Constantine. ... Coin of Licinius For other Romans of this name, see Licinius (gens). ... Location within Italy Piazza della Scala Milan (Italian: Milano; Milanese dialect: Milán) is the main city in northern Italy, and is located in the plains of Lombardy, the most populated and developed of Italian regions. ... Events Eusebius becomes bishop of Caesarea (approximate date). ... Events Huns sack Changan, capital of the Chinese Western Jin Dynasty. ... Events Constantine becomes the sole emperor of the Roman Empire. ... The White Tower The Arch of Galerius Map showing the Thessaloníki prefecture Thessaloníki (Θεσσαλονίκη) is the second-largest city of Greece and is the principal city and the capital of the Greek region of Macedonia. ... Events May 20 - First Council of Nicaea _ first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church: The Nicene Creed is formulated, the date of Easter is discussed. ...


In the following years, Constantia lived at her brother's court, receiving honors, and died around 330. Events May 11 - Constantine I refounds Byzantium, renames it New Rome, and moves the capital of the Roman Empire there from Rome. ...


External links

  • Constantia, at De Imperatoribus Romanis

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