Constans
    | Please |help| us convert the |Dictionary of Roman Coins| from scans to text by typing the original text here. Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. CONSTANS (Flavius Julius) Caesar and Augustus; youngest son of Constantine the Great and Fausta; born about A.D. 320, he was declared Caesar by his father in 333; and obtained two years afterwards the government of Italy, Illyria, and Africa. He shared in the partition of the Empire after the death of Constantine, A.D. 337. His elder brother, Constantine the younger, was slain in 340 near Aquileia while treacherosly invading his territory, making Constans master of the whole West, as Constantius was of the East. In the following year he undertook an expedition against the Franks, who had passed the Rhine in order to ravage Gaul. He conducted this war in person with vigour and having first defeated, he then formed an alliance with the invaders whom he obliged to return in peace to their own country. Passing afterward to Britain, he restored that important Province of the empire to a degree of tranquility to which it had long been a stranger. Before he quitted the island on his return to Gaul, Constans established such laws there causing the Roman name to respected and a credit to his own judgement and policy. The remainder of his reign promised to be undisturbed and prosperous, but his passion for the chase and his indulgence in a false security afforded the opportunity to Marcellinus, his financial minister and Chreste, one of his military officers, to form a conspiracy against his life. These two wretches came to a secret understanding with Magnentius, who on the 18th of January 350, during the night, they invested with the purple at the end of a banquet in the city of Autun where the Imperial Court was. Magnentius, after being saluted Emperor by the conspirators, sent Gaison, a Gaulish officer, with some soldiers to murder Constans. But that prince, made aware of what had just occurred, had taken horse to save himself and fled to Spain. Gaison with his band of assassins followed and overtook him at Elne in the Pyrenees where they dragged him out of a church where he taken refuge and put him to death with their daggers. Thus perished Constans in the 30th year of his age on the 27th of February, 350 after having reigned from the period of his father's death for twelve years, nine months and five days. |
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Constans
| Please |help| us convert the |Dictionary of Roman Coins| from scans to text by typing the original text here. Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. CONSTANS (Flavius Julius) Caesar and Augustus; youngest son of Constantine the Great and Fausta; born about A.D. 320, he was declared Caesar by his father in 333; and obtained two years afterwards the government of Italy, Illyria, and Africa. He shared in the partition of the Empire after the death of Constantine, A.D. 337. His elder brother, Constantine the younger, was slain in 340 near Aquileia while treacherosly invading his territory, making Constans master of the whole West, as Constantius was of the East. In the following year he undertook an expedition against the Franks, who had passed the Rhine in order to ravage Gaul. He conducted this war in person with vigour and having first defeated, he then formed an alliance with the invaders whom he obliged to return in peace to their own country. Passing afterward to Britain, he restored that important Province of the empire to a degree of tranquility to which it had long been a stranger. Before he quitted the island on his return to Gaul, Constans established such laws there causing the Roman name to respected and a credit to his own judgement and policy. The remainder of his reign promised to be undisturbed and prosperous, but his passion for the chase and his indulgence in a false security afforded the opportunity to Marcellinus, his financial minister and Chreste, one of his military officers, to form a conspiracy against his life. These two wretches came to a secret understanding with Magnentius, who on the 18th of January 350, during the night, they invested with the purple at the end of a banquet in the city of Autun where the Imperial Court was. Magnentius, after being saluted Emperor by the conspirators, sent Gaison, a Gaulish officer, with some soldiers to murder Constans. But that prince, made aware of what had just occurred, had taken horse to save himself and fled to Spain. Gaison with his band of assassins followed and overtook him at Elne in the Pyrenees where they dragged him out of a church where he taken refuge and put him to death with their daggers. Thus perished Constans in the 30th year of his age on the 27th of February, 350 after having reigned from the period of his father's death for twelve years, nine months and five days. |
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