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Constans
Roman emperor from 337 to 350 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Flavius Julius Constans (c. 323 – 350), also called Constans I, was Roman emperor from 337 to 350. He held the imperial rank of caesar from 333, and was the youngest son of Constantine the Great.
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Roman emperor in the West | |||||||||
Augustus | 9 September 337 – January 350 | ||||||||
Predecessor | Constantine I | ||||||||
Successor | Magnentius and Vetranio | ||||||||
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Caesar | 25 December 333 – 9 September 337 | ||||||||
Born | 322 or 323 | ||||||||
Died | January 350 (aged 27)[3] Vicus Helena, southwestern Gaul | ||||||||
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Dynasty | Constantinian | ||||||||
Father | Constantine I | ||||||||
Mother | Fausta | ||||||||
Religion | Nicene Christianity |
After his father's death, he was made augustus alongside his brothers in September 337. Constans was given the administration of the praetorian prefectures of Italy, Illyricum, and Africa.[4] He defeated the Sarmatians in a campaign shortly afterwards.[4] Quarrels over the sharing of power led to a civil war with his eldest brother and co-emperor Constantine II, who invaded Italy in 340 and was killed in battle by Constans's forces near Aquileia.[4] Constans gained from him the praetorian prefecture of Gaul.[4] Thereafter there were tensions with his remaining brother and co-augustus Constantius II (r. 337–361), including over the exiled bishop Athanasius of Alexandria,[4] who in turn eulogized Constans as "the most pious Augustus... of blessed and everlasting memory."[5] In the following years he campaigned against the Franks, and in 343 he visited Roman Britain,[4] the last legitimate emperor to do so.[6]
In January 350, Magnentius (r. 350–353) the commander of the Jovians and Herculians, a corps in the Roman army, was acclaimed augustus at Augustodunum (Autun) with the support of Marcellinus, the comes rei privatae.[7] Magnentius overthrew and killed Constans.[4][7] Surviving sources, possibly influenced by the propaganda of Magnentius's faction,[8] accuse Constans of misrule and of homosexuality.[4]