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.

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293 - Roman Emperor - Constantius Chlorus - Flavia Maximiana Theodora

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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.

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313 - Constantine I - Licinius - Mediolanum - 315 - 316 - 324 - Thessalonica - 325

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In the following years, Constantia lived at her brother's court, receiving honors, and died around 330.

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