Eutropia

Eutropia
Roman empress
Tenure286–305
BornSyria
Diedafter 325
SpouseAfranius Hannibalianus (disputed)
Emperor Maximian
Issue

Eutropia (died after 325), a woman of Syrian origin, was the wife of Emperor Maximian.

Personal life

In the late 3rd century, she married Maximian, though the exact date of this marriage is unknown. By Maximian, she had two children: Maxentius (c. 280–312), Roman emperor from 306 to 312, and Fausta (c. 290), the second wife of Constantine the Great and mother of emperors Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans.

There is some doubt[according to whom?] as to whether Flavia Maximiana Theodora, wife of Constantius Chlorus, was a daughter of Eutropia by an earlier husband, Afranius Hannibalianus or whether she was a daughter of Maximian by an earlier anonymous wife.

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Jones, Martindale & Morris, p. 316.
  2. ^ Vanderspoel, J. (1999) "Correspondence and Correspondents of Julius Julianus". Byzantion 69:2. p.414
  3. ^ Burgersdijk, Diederik (2014). Donciu, R. (ed.). "Maxentius". The Classical Review. 64 (2): 553–555. ISSN 0009-840X.
  4. ^ Aurelius Victor, Epitome de Caesaribus 39.25; Eutropius, Breviaria 9.22; Jerome, Chronicle 225g; Epitome de Caesaribus 39.2, 40.12, quoted in Timothy Barnes, New Empire, 33; Barnes, New Empire, 33.
  5. ^ Origo Constantini 2; Philostorgius, Historia Ecclesiastica 2.16a, quoted in Barnes, New Empire, 33. See also Panegyrici Latini 10(2)11.4.

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