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Flavia Maxima Fausta

Flavia Maxima Fausta[1]

Female Abt 293 - 326  (33 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Flavia Maxima Fausta  
    Birth Abt 293 
    Gender Female 
    Death 326 
    Siblings 1 Sibling 
    Person ID I523627  Geneagraphie | Ahnen BvS
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2010 

    Father Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus,   b. Abt 249, Simium Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jul 310, Massilia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years) 
    Mother Eutropia,   b. Abt 250   d. Abt 325 (Age 75 years) 
    Family ID F268380  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ks. Flavius Valerius Constantinus Augustus,   b. Abt 272, Nis, Bulgarien Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 May 337, Nicomédie, Griechenland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years) 
    Marriage 307 
    Children 
     1. Flavius Claudius Constantinus,   b. 316   d. 340 (Age 24 years)
    +2. Flavius Iulius Constantius,   b. 7 Aug 317, Sirmium Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Nov 361 (Age 44 years)
     3. Flavia Helena   d. 360
    +4. Constantia,   b. 307-317   d. 354, Caeni Gallicani, Bithynia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 37 years)
     5. Maximilianus Constans,   b. Abt 320   d. 350 (Age 30 years)
    Family ID F212831  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2010 

  • Notes 
    • Fausta had a part in her father's downfall. In 310 Maximian died as a consequence of an assassination plot against Constantine. Maximian decided to involve his daughter Fausta, but she revealed the plot to her husband, and the assassination was disrupted. Maximian died, by suicide or by assassination, in July of that same year.
      Empress Fausta was held in high esteem by Constantine and proof of his favour was that in 323 she was proclaimed Augusta ; previously she held the title of Nobilissima Femina. However 3 years later Fausta was put to death by Constantine. Although the real reasons are not clear, Constantine put her to death following the execution of Crispus , his eldest son by Minervina , in 326. According to some sources, she had accused Crispus of rape, and Constantine had Crispus executed. Fausta was later executed by suffocation in an over-heated bath, when her charge was discovered to be false. Modern commentators have tended to ignore the story of allegation of rape and seek some other explanation for what happened. It has been argued instead that Fausta wanted to get rid of Crispus who was a dangerous rival for her own sons in the competition to succeed Constantine. The Emperor ordered the damnatio memoriae of his wife. Significantly, her sons, once in power, never revoked this order.
      Her sons became Roman Emperors: Constantine II reigned 337 - 340, Constantius II reigned 337 - 361, and Constans reigned 337 - 350. She also bore three daughters Constantina , Helena and Fausta. Of these, Constantina married her cousins, firstly Hannibalianus and secondly Constantius Gallus , and Helena married Emperor Julian . Apparently a genealogical claim that her daughter Fausta became mother of Emperor Valentinian I is without foundation (Valentinian I and children of Constantine I's second marriage were born in years close to each other, i.e., they were of the same generation).

  • Sources 
    1. [S1630] Alain de Carné, Forez, Loire, France, Généalogie de Carné.



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