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CONSTANTIUS, FLAVIUS VALERIUS

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CONSTANTIUS, FLAVIUS See also:VALERIUS , commonly called CHLORUS (the See also:Pale), an epithet due to the See also:Byzantine historians, See also:Roman See also:emperor and See also:father of See also:Constantine the See also:Great, was See also:born about A.D. 250. He was of Illyrian origin; a fictitious connexion with the See also:family of See also:Claudius Gothicus was attributed to him by Constantine. Having distinguished himself by his military ability and his able and See also:gentle See also:rule of See also:Dalmatia, he was, on the 1st of See also:March 293, adopted and appointed See also:Caesar by Maximian, whose step-daughter, Flavia Maximiana See also:Theodora, he had married in 289 after renouncing his wife See also:Helena (the See also:mother of Constantine). In the See also:distribution of the provinces See also:Gaul and See also:Britain were allotted to Constantius. In Britain See also:Carausius and subsequently Allectus had declared themselves See also:independent, and it was not till 296 that, by the defeat of Allectus, it was re-See also:united with the See also:empire. In 298 Constantius overthrew the See also:Alamanni in the territory of the Lingones (See also:Langres) and strengthened the See also:Rhine frontier. During the persecution of the Christians in 303 he behaved with great humanity. He obtained the See also:title of See also:Augustus on the 1st of May 305, and died the following See also:year shortly before the 25th of See also:July at Eboracum (See also:York) during an expedition against the Picts and Scots. See Aurelius See also:Victor, De Caesaribus, 39; See also:Eutropius ix. 14-23; See also:Zosimus ii. 7.

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