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Constantine II
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Constantine II, Emperor of Rome and provinces of the Roman Empire.
Name commonly known as: Constantine II *** Latin Roman Name: Flavius
Claudius Constantinus *** Reigned as Roman Emperor /
Caesar: 1 March 317 - 337 as Caesar in the west under his father and
337 - 340 as joint emperor with Constantius II and Constans,
over Gaul, Hispania, and Britannia, in 340 in failed
competition with Constans *** Dynasty / Historical Period:
The Constantinian dynasty (285 - 364) also called Neo-Flavian
because every Constantinian emperor bore the name Flavius *** Place and Date of Birth:
Born 316 in Arles *** Family connections / Genealogy
*** Name of Father:
Constantine the Great
*** Name of Mother: Fausta *** Brothers:
*** *** Crispus (half
brother by Minervina)
*** *** Constantius II
*** *** Constans
Place and Date of Death:
Died 340 in Aquileia, killed while fighting over territory
with his brother Constans.
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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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