Fausta

Fausta
Augusta
Female head statue
Possible portrait of Fausta, Louvre[1][2]
Roman empress
Tenure307–326
BornRome, Italy
Died326
SpouseConstantine I
Issue
Names
Flavia Maxima Fausta[3]
DynastyConstantinian
FatherMaximian
MotherEutropia

Flavia Maxima Fausta Augusta[a] (died 326 AD) was a Roman empress. She was the daughter of Maximian and wife of Constantine the Great, who had her executed and excluded from all official accounts for unknown reasons. Historians Zosimus and Zonaras reported that she was executed for adultery with her stepson, Crispus.

  1. ^ http://laststatues.classics.ox.ac.uk, LSA-573 (J. Lenaghan)
  2. ^ "statue", Musée du Louvre Collections database, 300–325, retrieved 25 September 2024
  3. ^ Woods 1998, p. 70.


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