Emperor Valentinian II
Life: AD 375 – 392 Name: Flavius Valentinianus Born in AD 371 at Treviri. Became emperor in AD 375. Died in Vianna in Gaul, 15 May AD 392. Valentinian II …
Emperor Gratian
Life: AD 359 – 383 Early Life Gratian was born at Sirmium in AD 359, the son of Valentinian and Marina Severa. Granted the position of consul by his father …
Emperor Valens
Life: AD c. 328 – 378 Early Life Valens was born around AD 328 as the second son of a native of Cibalae in Pannonia called Gratianus. Like his brother …
Emperor Valentinian
Life: AD 321 – 375 Early Life Valentinian was born in AD 321 in Pannonia. His father was a certain Gratianus who came from Cibalae in Pannonia. The young Valentinian …
Emperor Jovian
Life: AD 330 – 364 Born in AD 330 at Singidunum, Jovian was the son of the commander of imperial bodyguard (comes domesticorum) of Constantius II. Jovian began his career …
Emperor Julian the Apostate
Life: AD 332 – 363 Early Life Julian was born in AD 332 at Constantinople, the son of Julius Constantius, who was a half-brother of Constantine the Great. His mother was Basilina, …
Emperor Magnentius
Life: AD c. 303 – 353 Name: Flavius Magnus Magnentius Born in February AD ca. 303. Became emperor on 18 January AD 350. Died at Lugdunum (Lyons), AD 353. Magnentius …
Emperor Constans
Life: AD c. 320 – 350 Name: Flavius Julius Constans Born in AD 320. Became emperor in AD 337. Died on in Gaul, on the way to Spanish border, January …
Emperor Constantius II
Life: AD 317 – 361 Early Life Constantius II was born in Illyricum in August AD 317, the son of Constantine the Great and Fausta, and was proclaimed Caesar in …
Emperor Constantine II
Life: AD c. 317 – 340 Name: Flavius Claudius Constantinus Born in February AD ca. 317. Consul AD 320, 321, 324. Became emperor in AD 337. Died near Aquileia, AD …
Constantinople
Period: AD 326 – 1453 Byzantium had first been reconstructed in the time of Septimius Severus not just as a Roman city, but modelled on Rome itself, on and around …
The Collapse of the Roman Empire
Period: AD 337 – 476 Flavius Claudius Constantinus – “Constantine II” Reign: AD 337 – 340 Flavius Julius Constantius – “Constantius II” Reign: AD 337 – 361 Flavius Julius Constans …
Emperor Constantine the Great
Life: AD c. 285 – 337 Constantine the Great was born in Naissus, Upper Moesia, on 27 February in roughly AD 285. Another account places the year at about AD …
Emperor Licinius
Life: AD c. 250 – 324 Licinius’s Early Life Licinius was born in Upper Moesia in about AD 250 as the son of a peasant. He rose through the ranks …