Flavia Julia Constantia
Born: France
Died: Romano, Torino, Piemonte, Italy
<font size="5" color="#000000">Flavia Julia Constantia</font><div><p><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><strong>Flavia Julia Constantia</strong>, (after 293 – c. 330), was the daughter of the </font></font><font size="3" color="#000000">Roman Emperor</font><font size="3" color="#000000"> </font><font size="3" color="#000000">Constantius Chlorus</font><font size="3" color="#000000"> and his second wife, </font><font size="3" color="#000000">Flavia Maximiana Theodora</font><font size="3" color="#000000">.</font></p><p><font size="3" color="#000000">In 313, Emperor </font><font size="3" color="#000000">Constantine I</font><font size="3" color="#000000">, who was half-brother of Constantia, gave her in marriage to his co-emperor </font><font size="3" color="#000000">Licinius</font><font size="3" color="#000000">, on occasion of their meeting in </font><font size="3" color="#000000">Mediolanum</font><font size="3" color="#000000">. She bore a son, </font><font size="3" color="#000000">Valerius Licinianus Licinius</font><font size="3" color="#000000">, 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 </font><font size="3" color="#000000">Thessalonica</font><font size="3" color="#000000"> 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 </font><font size="3" color="#000000">Licinius the Younger</font><font size="3" color="#000000">.</font></p><p><font size="3" color="#000000">In the following years, Constantia lived at her brother's court, receiving honors (her title was <em>nobilissima femina</em>). She converted to </font><font size="3" color="#000000">Christianity</font><font size="3" color="#000000">,<sup><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></sup> supporting the </font><font size="3" color="#000000">Arian</font><font size="3" color="#000000"> party at the </font><font size="3" color="#000000">First Council of Nicaea</font><font size="3"><font color="#000000"> (325).<sup><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></sup></font></font></p><p><font size="3" color="#000000">The city of </font><font size="3" color="#000000">Constanţa</font><font size="3" color="#000000">, </font><font size="3" color="#000000">Romania</font><font size="3" color="#000000"> is named after her.</font></p></div>