Fausta

Reece Period attributed: Period 16

Member of the House of Constantine dynasty.

Coins for this issuer were issued from 324 until 328.

Fausta was the daughter of Maximian and wife of Constantine I. Her sons were Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans. She supposedly died after Constantine returned from Pola, where he had executed his son Crispus for adultery, because Helena convinced him that Fausta had plotted Crispus’ downfall. Fausta is said to have entered her bath and turned up the steam so that she suffocated.

Other resources about Fausta

• Dbpedia: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Fausta
• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fausta

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Information from Wikipedia

• Preferred label: Fausta
• Full names:
  • Fausta
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• Definition: Flavia Maxima Fausta Augusta (289–326 AD) was a Roman empress. She was the daughter of Maximian and second wife of Constantine the Great, who had her executed and excluded from all official accounts for unknown reasons. Historians Zosimus and Zonaras reported that she was executed for adultery with her stepson, Crispus.
• Parents:
  • Father: Maximian
  • Mother: Eutropia
• Birth place: Italy, Rome
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  • Constantine I
• Other title(s):
  • Empress of Rome
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• Subjects on wikipedia:
  • Executed Roman empresses
  • Constantinian dynasty
  • Deaths from asphyxiation
  • 326 deaths
  • Constantine the Great
  • 289 births
  • People executed by the Roman Empire
  • People executed for adultery
  • Damnatio memoriae
  • Murdered Roman empresses
  • 3rd-century Roman women
  • 4th-century Roman empresses
  • Flavii
  • Nobilissimi
  • 4th-century executions