Eutropia [61892]

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Eutropia (d. after 325) a woman of Syrian origin, who 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. 277-287), who was Western Roman Emperor from 306 -312 and a girl, Fausta </wiki/Fausta> (c. 298)[1], who was wife of Constantine I , 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 the a daughter of Eutropia by an earlier husband[2] or whether she was a daughter of Maximian by an earlier anonymous wife[3].

Footnotes

1. ^ Barnes, New Empire, 34. Barnes dates Maxentius' birth to circa 283, when Maximian was in Syria, and Fausta's birth to 289 or 290 (Barnes, New Empire, 34).
2. ^ Aurelius Victor, de Caesaribus 39.25; Eutropius, Breviaria 9.22; Jerome, Chronicle 225^g; Epitome de Caesaribus 39.2, 40.12, quoted in Barnes, New Empire, 33; Barnes, New Empire, 33.
3. ^ Origo Constantini 2; Philostorgius , Historia Ecclesiastica 2.16^a, 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 <http://www.roman-emperors.org/maxherc.htm>

Barnes, Timothy D. The New Empire of Diocletian and Constantine. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982. ISBN 0783722214

Eutropia married Maximian Marcus Aurelias Valerius Emperor of the Western Roman Empire [61891] [MRIN: 551617869]. (Maximian Marcus Aurelias Valerius Emperor of the Western Roman Empire [61891] was born in 250 in Sirmium , Balkan Region and died about Jul 310 in Marseilles (Marseille, France).)