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Constantius III
(508 words)
A native of Naissus in the Balkans, Constantius III (d. 421 CE) served in the army, where he was eventually promoted to the senior rank of
magister militum in 411 CE, a post that allowed him to dominate political life in the West for the next decade. His victory over the usurper Constantine in Gaul was rewarded with the honorific but still prestigious office of consul in 414 CE, and he then campaigned successfully against the Goths in Gaul, finally settling them in Aquitaine in 418 CE. He held the consulship for a se…
Date:
2024-01-19
Constantius I
(671 words)
A native of Illyricum, Constantius I’s family background is likely to have been relatively humble, despite his son Constantine later claiming that Constantius (c. 250–306 CE) was descended from the emperor Claudius Gothicus (268–270 CE). He rose to prominence through military service and was eventually appointed Caesar (junior emperor) in 293 CE, as part of the arrangement conventionally referred to as the Tetrarchy, comprising the two Augusti (senior emperors) Diocletian and Maximian, a…
Date:
2024-01-19
