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FLAVIUS VALERIUS CONSTANTIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 11 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FLAVIUS

VALERIUS CONSTANTIUS  , commonly called CHLORUS (the Pale), an epithet due to the
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Byzantine historians,
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Roman emperor and
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father of
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Constantine the
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Great, was born about A.D . 250 . He was of Illyrian origin; a fictitious connexion with the
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family of Claudius Gothicus was attributed to him by Constantine . Having distinguished himself by his military ability and his able and gentle
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rule of Dalmatia, he was, on the 1st of March 293, adopted and appointed Caesar by Maximian, whose step-daughter, Flavia Maximiana Theodora, he had married in 289 after renouncing his wife Helena (the
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mother of Constantine) . In the distribution of the provinces Gaul and Britain were allotted to Constantius . In Britain Carausius and subsequently Allectus had declared themselves
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independent, and it was not till 296 that, by the defeat of Allectus, it was re-
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united with the
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empire . In 298 Constantius overthrew the Alamanni in the territory of the Lingones (
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Langres) and strengthened the Rhine frontier . During the persecution of the Christians in 303 he behaved with great humanity . He obtained the title of Augustus on the 1st of May 305, and died the following
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year shortly before the 25th of
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July at Eboracum (York) during an expedition against the Picts and Scots . See Aurelius Victor, De Caesaribus, 39;
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Eutropius ix . 14-23;
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Zosimus ii . 7 .

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