Maximian Herculius

250 – 310 · Generation XV · Roman emperor (r. AD 286–305)

Maximian (AD 250 – AD 310). Roman emperor (r. AD 286–305). Married Eutropia around AD 280. Diocletian’s co-Augustus; abdicated, returned, and died by his own hand after plotting against his son-in-law Constantine. In the imperial partnership he was the arm and Diocletian the mind — the senior emperor’s statecraft matched to his gift for war. Trier was his seat in name only; he lived in the field, breaking the Bagaudae rebels of Gaul, fighting Germanic tribes on the Rhine, and joining Diocletian in 288 to burn a path deep into the country of the Alamanni. Britain escaped him — his officer Carausius rebelled and took the island with northwestern Gaul, and storms wrecked the invasion fleet; the secession ended only in 296 under his subordinate Constantius, while Maximian guarded the Rhine and then turned south against piracy off Hispania and Berber raids into Mauretania. In the chaos after his retirement he even tried to strip his son Maxentius of the purple before the assembled soldiers in Rome, and found they preferred the son. His images were destroyed during Constantine’s war with Maxentius, then restored — and he was made a god.

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Partners

• Married Eutropia of Syria (250 – 325) in 280 — 2 children together

Children

• Maxentius Valerius (283 – 312)
• Fausta Flavia Maxima (289 – 326)

Life

• 250 — Born
• 280 — Married Eutropia
• 310 — Died