Flavia Julia Constantia
Flavia Julia Constantia, (after
293 â€" c.
330), was the daughter of the
Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus and his second wife,
Flavia Maximiana Theodora.
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.
In the following years, Constantia lived at her brother's court, receiving honors, and died around
330.
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Constantia, at
De Imperatoribus Romanis
