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Constantine served as a hostage in the court of Eastern Roman Emperor Diocletian in Nicomedia, thus securing the loyalty of his father Constantius Chlorus, Caesar of the Western Roman Empire. When Constantine wanted to strengthen his bonds with the other Tetrarchs , in 307 AD he married Fausta , the daughter of the emperor Maximian.
Flavius Julius Crispus (/ ˈ k r ɪ s p ə s /; c. 300 – 326) was the eldest son of the Roman emperor Constantine I, as well as his junior colleague from March 317 until his execution by his father in 326.
Constantine himself had two wives: Minerva (or Minervina), who bore Constantine his firstborn child, Crispus; and Fausta, the daughter of the previous Western emperor who bore him three sons. In 326, Constantine put Crispus and Fausta to death—an episode that has attracted much speculation but few definitive answers.
Crispus (born c. 305—died 326, Pola, Venetia) was the eldest son of Constantine the Great who was executed under mysterious circumstances on his father’s orders. Crispus’s mother, Minerva (or Minervina), was divorced by Constantine in 307. Crispus received his education from the Christian writer Lactantius.
His mother was a woman named Minervina, with whom Constantine had a relationship, probably illegitimate, before he married Fausta in 307. [[2]] When Minervina died or when Constantine put her aside we do not know.
Life. Constantine served as a hostage in the court of Eastern Roman Emperor Diocletian in Nicomedia, thus securing the loyalty of his father Constantius Chlorus, Caesar of the Western Roman Empire. When Constantine wanted to strengthen his bonds with the other Tetrarchs, in 307 AD he married Fausta, the daughter of the emperor Maximian.
Flavia Maxima Fausta Augusta (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.
