Valeria Galeria

Portrait of Galeria Valeria in the Small Arch of Galerius (Archaeological Museum, Thessaloniki)

Valeria Galeria (c.280-314): name of a Roman empress, wife of Galerius.

Life

c.280 Born as daughter of Diocletian and Prisca (?)
June 293: Married to Galerius

She adopts Candidianus, Galerius' son from an earlier marriage
Candidianus marries to a daughter of Maximinus Daia

November 309: Proclaimed Augusta
May 311: Death of Galerius
Valeria, trying to escape Licinius, flees to Maximinus Daia
Maximinus Daia sends her into exile to Syria
Summer 313: Death of Maximinus Daia
End 314: After fifteen months, Galeria is rounded up by Licinius' soldiers and killed

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