Eutropia

Eutropia was the daughter of Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus and of Flavia Maximiana Theodora, and therefore half-sister of Emperor Constantine I.

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She married Virius Nepotian, consul in 336, and bore him a son, Nepotianus, who later became a short-lived Roman usurper, when Magnentius was proclaimed emperor in 350; after a period of twenty-eight days in early June 350, Nepotianus was killed, and probably this led to execution of Eutropia by Magnentius' order.

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