History, Facts and Information about Constantine II
The content of this article provides interesting history, facts and information about the Emperor Constantine II and the all-powerful Caesars who ruled the empire of Ancient Rome. The word "Caesar" was originally the name of the famous aristocratic patrician family of ancient Rome and became synonymous with the Roman Emperors. Refer to the comprehensive List of Roman Emperors for the names of the most famous Romans, their dynasties and the historic eras of all the Roman Emperors and usurpers. Read about the life of Constantine II who can be described or remembered as:
"The Emperor who was killed fighting over territory with his brother..."
Short Biography about the life of Constantine II
Short Biography profile and facts about one of the most famous Romans of all, in the life of Constantine II, Emperor of Rome and provinces of the Roman Empire.
Interesting facts about the life of Constantine II
Obtain a fast overview of the times of the Roman Emperor Constantine II from the following facts and information about his life. Constantine II was the elder son of Constantine I and his second wife, Fausta. By 317, there were two joint emperors in control of the Roman Empire. The father of Constantine II, Constantine the Great, reigned as an Western Roman Emperor and his brother-in-law Licinius as the Eastern Roman Emperor. On 1 March 317, the two co-reigning Emperors jointly proclaimed three new Caesars.
Crispus, the son of Minerva and Constantine and half brother of Constantine II
Constantine II, the son of Fausta and Constantine
His first cousin Licinius, the son of Licinius by his wife Flavia Julia Constantia, the sister of the Emperor Constantine
The three sons of the late emperor, Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans, as soon as their father was dead, put to death their two cousins, Hannibalianus and Dalmatius, with many more of their relatives. Only Gallus and Julian, the children of Julius Constantius, being left alive. They then divided the empire in A.D. 337. Constantine, the elder, retaining the new capital, Constans receiving the western provinces, while to Constantius was left Syria and the East. Sapor, king of Persia, invaded the Eastern provinces, and defeated the Romans in various battles. Meanwhile a quarrel broke out between Constantine and Constans, and the former, having invaded his brother's provinces, was defeated and slain in A.D. 350. Ten years afterward Constans was himself put to death by Magnentius, an ambitious soldier, who at once assumed the name of emperor.
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Map of the Roman Empire c395AD illustrating the power of the Emperor