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| Galerius | |||||
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 Bust of Galerius | |||||
| Roman emperor of the East | |||||
| Augustus | 1 May 305 – early May 311 | ||||
| Predecessor | Diocletian and Maximian[1] | ||||
| Successor | Maximinus Daza and Licinius | ||||
| Co-rulers | Constantius I (305–306) Severus II (306–307) Constantine I (306–311) Maxentius (306–311) Licinius (308–311) | ||||
| Caesar | 1 March or 21 May 293[2][3][4][5][6][7] – 1 May 305 (under Diocletian)[1] | ||||
| Born | c. 258[8][9] Serdica [10] | ||||
| Died | 5 May 311[11] (aged around 53) Serdica | ||||
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| Religion | Roman polytheism | ||||
Galerius (Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus, ~250 – 5 May 311), was Roman Emperor from 305 to 311.
Galerius served as a soldier with distinction. When the Tetrarchy was introduced by Diocletian in 293 Galerius and Constantius Chlorus were given the rank of Caesar. Galerius married Diocletian's daughter Valeria, and took over the Illyrian provinces.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Barnes, New Empire, p. 4.
- ↑ Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, pp. 8–9.
- ↑ Barnes, New Empire, pp. 4, 38
- ↑ Potter, The Roman Empire at Bay, p. 288
- ↑ Southern, Severus to Constantine p. 146
- ↑ Williams, Diocletian pp. 64–5
- ↑ The earlier dates for Galerius' appointment have been argued for based on the suggestion that the appointments of Constantius and Galerius were timed to coincide (Barnes 1981, 8–9; Southern 1999, 146). Barnes (1982, 62) argues against a dating of 21 May 293 in Nicomedia originating in Seston, Dioclétien, 88ff., stating that the evidence adduced (the Paschal Chronicle 521 = Chronica Minora 1.229 and Lactantius, DMP 19.2) is invalid and confused. Lactantius is commenting on Diocletian and the place where Diocletian was acclaimed, and that the "Maximianus" in the text is therefore a later gloss; the Paschal Chronicle is not authoritative for this period for events outside Egypt, and may simply be commenting on the day when the laureled image of the new emperors arrived in Alexandria. Potter (2004, 650) agrees that locating the acclamation to Nicomedia is false, but believes that Seston's other evidence makes a strong case for a temporal lag between the two Caesars' acclamations.
- ↑ Leadbetter, pp. 18–21.
- ↑ Barnes 1982, p. 37.
- ↑ Eutropius. Breviarivm historiae romanae, IX, 22 (in Latin)
- ↑ Lactantius, DMP 35.4. The exact date is lost in a lacuna (Barnes 1982, 6).