Charito

Charito
Imaginary portrait (1587)
Empress of the Roman Empire
TenureJune 363 – February 364
SpouseJovian
IssueVarronianus
FatherLucillianus

Charito (flourished mid-4th century AD) was a Roman Empress, consort of Jovian, Roman Emperor. Some historians doubt whether Charito was granted the title of Augusta as no archaeological evidence as yet confirms it.[1]

  1. ^ Select Works of Emperor Julian (1786), English anthology including a translation of the History of Jovian, p. 364. See also de La Bléterie, J. P., Histoire de Jovien, 1740, i. p. 1-238; and Garland, Lynda, Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204, Psychology Press, 1999, p. 229. ISBN 978-0415146883.