Eutropia
| Eutropia | |
|---|---|
| Augusta | |
 | |
| Roman empress (286–305) | |
| Born | c. 252 Syria, Roman Province of Syria |
| Died | 8 September 325 |
| Burial | Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia |
| Spouse | Afranius Hannibalianus, then Emperor Maximian |
| Issue | |
Eutropia (died after 325), a woman of Syrian origin,[citation needed] was the wife of Emperor Maximian.
Marriage to Maximian and their children[]
In the late 3rd century, she married Maximian, though the exact date of this marriage is uncertain. By Maximian, she had two children, a boy, Maxentius (c. 280–312), who was Western Roman Emperor from 306 to 312 and a girl, Fausta (c. 290), who was wife of Constantine the Great, and mother of six children by him, including the Augusti Constantine II, Constantius II and Constans.
Another daughter?[]
There is some doubt as to whether Flavia Maximiana Theodora, who married Constantius I Chlorus, was a daughter of Eutropia by an earlier husband, Afranius Hannibalianus[1] or whether she was a daughter of Maximian by an earlier anonymous wife.[2]
Footnotes[]
- ^ Aurelius Victor, Epitome de Caesaribus 39.25; Eutropius, Breviaria 9.22; Jerome, Chronicle 225g; Epitome de Caesaribus 39.2, 40.12, quoted in Timothy Barnes, New Empire, 33; Barnes, New Empire, 33.
- ^ Origo Constantini 2; Philostorgius, Historia Ecclesiastica 2.16a, quoted in Barnes, New Empire, 33. See also Panegyrici Latini 10(2)11.4.
References[]
- s.v. DiMaio, Michael, "Maximianus Herculius (286-305 A.D)", DIR
- Barnes, Timothy D. The New Empire of Diocletian and Constantine. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982. ISBN 0-7837-2221-4
Categories:
- Roman empresses
- 3rd-century Romans
- 4th-century Romans
- 3rd-century Roman women
- 4th-century Roman women
- 3rd-century births
- 4th-century deaths