Constantia (wife of Gratian)

Constantia
16th-century portrait from Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae
Roman empress
Tenure374 AD – 383 AD (alongside Justina in 374–375 AD)
Born362 AD
Died383 AD
SpouseGratian
DynastyValentinianic dynasty by marriage;
Constantinian dynasty by birth
FatherConstantius II
MotherFaustina

Constantia[a] (362–383) was the first empress consort of Gratian of the Western Roman Empire. According to Ammianus Marcellinus, her mother was Faustina and her father was Constantius II, who died before Constantia was born.[2]

  1. ^ a b Plate, William (1867). "Constantinus I". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 77–80.
  2. ^ a b Jones, Martindale & Morris, p. 221.
  3. ^ Otto Seeck: Constantia 15.(in German) In: Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Vol. IV,1, Stuttgart 1900, col. 959.
  4. ^ Kienast, Dietmar; Werner Eck & Matthäus Heil (2017) [1990]. Römische Kaisertabelle: Grundzüge einer römischen Kaiserchronologie (in German) (6th ed.). Darmstadt: WBG. pp. 331–337. ISBN 978-3-534-26724-8.
  5. ^ Jones, Martindale & Morris, p. 329, 409.


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