The son of the Eastern Roman Emperor Licinius I and Constantia, the half-sister of Western Emperor Constantine the Great, Licinius the Younger served as Caesar to his father s Augustus. As the nephew of Constantine, he was initially spared when his father was executed after the Battle of Chrysopolis. But Licinius the Younger seems to have been involved in the conspiracy against his first cousin Crispus, and was also executed in 326.
Licinius was a partner and rival to Constantine the Great, serving as the Eastern Emperor of Rome. His marriage to Constantine s half-sister Constantia forestalled civil war. The wedding provided the...
Constantius II, Fausta s middle son, was the most ruthlessly efficient of the sons of Constantine. He was elevated to Caesar at age seven, and in 333 was given the city of Antioch.
Helena was the consort to Constantius Chlorus and the mother of Constantine the Great. By 324, Constantine alone ruled the length and breadth of the Empire. Two years later, he dispatched Helena to...
In 269, Postumus was murdered by his own troops, and the Gallic Empire, which depended on the force of his personality, began to crumble. Victorinus, who assumed control of the breakaway empire late...
In the year 268, Caesar Marcus Aurelius Claudius Augustus, known as Claudius II Gothicus, assumed the Roman throne. Desperate for fresh army recruits, he decreed that young men remain unmarried,...
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