Constans

Names:

• 320 or 323: Flavius Constans 
• 25 December 333: Flavius Constans Caesar
• 9 September 337: Flavius Claudius Constans Augustus 
• April 340: Flavius Claudius Constans Maximus Victor ac Triumphator Augustus 
• 18 January 350: murdered by courtiers

Relatives:

• father: Constantine I the Great
• mother: Fausta

Main deeds:

• 335 Send to Italy by Constantine I the Great
• 336? Engagement to Olympias, daughter of Ablabius, praetorian prefect
• 337 Succeeds his father as ruler in Italy; his brothers Constantinus II and Constantius II receive the west and the east
• 338 Meets the other rulers in Viminacium; victorious against the Sarmatians; accepts the titles Sarmaticus Maximus 
• Consul (with Constantius II)
• 340 War with his brother Constantinus II, who is defeated near Aquileia; accepts the title Maximus Victor ac Triumphator
• 341 War against the Franks in Gaul
• 342 Consul II (with Constantius II consul II) Frankish victory
• 343 Visits Britain
• 346 Consul III (with Constantius II consul III)
• 350 Insurrection of Magnentius; Constans killed

Buildings:

• Bridge at Cuijk

• 343/344 Council of Serdicca

Links:

• Servatius