Flavia Julia Constantia
Born: , Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Died: Y, Somme, Picardie, France
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Born: , Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Died: Y, Somme, Picardie, France
She was the daughter of the Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus and his second wife, Flavia Maximiana Theodora. <p>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.</p> <p>In the following years, Constantia lived at her brother's court, receiving honors (her title was <em>nobilissima femina</em>). She converted to Christianity,<sup>[1]</sup> supporting the Arian party at the First Council of Nicaea (325).<sup>[2]</sup></p>