Table of the Emperors

Name

Birth

Made Caesar

Further stages of career

Death

Constantine I

Imperator Caesar Flavius Constantinus Pius Felix Invictus Augustus

27 February of 271, 272, or 273, at Naissus, Moesia

306 made emperor (Caesar) at York.

324 became sole emperor

Died of natural causes May 22, 337 at Ancytona, near Nicomedia.

Constantine II

Flavius Claudius Constantinus

316 at Arles

March 1, 317 Caesar

Western emperor September 9, 337

Killed in 340 when about to attack Constans.

Constans

Flavius Julius Constans

320

Caesar from 333

Western emperor from September 9, 337 and took over entire west after killing Constantine II

Assassinated by Gaiso, a barbarian emissary of Megnentius, in 350 at the fortress of Helene, at the foot of the Pyrenees

Constantius II

Flavius Julius Constantius

August 7, 317 at Sirmium

Caesar from November 8, 324

Eastern emperor from September 9, 337; sole emperor from 353 (when Magnentius died) .

November 3, 361 Constantius II died of fever.

Magnentius

Flavius Magnus Magnentius

c. 303 at Amiens

Proclaimed emperor at Autun on January 18, 350 in opposition to Constans.

Defeated at the Battle of Mursa on September 28, 351.

Suicide at Lyon on August 11, 353.

Vetranio

?

Proclaimed western emperor by his troops in Illyricum on March 1, 350.

Abdicated later in 350 and retired to Bythinia.

Died in 356.

Silvanus

Claudius Silvanus

?

Declared himself emperor in 355.

Shortly after he named himself emperor, his soldiers assassinated him.

Julian

Flavius Claudius Julianus

April 332 at Constan - tinople

Proclaimed caesar by Constantius II on November 6, 355 and charged with Gaul and Britain.

Proclaimed emperor by his troops in 330 and he became sole emperor in 361.

Killed in battle against the Persians on June 26, 363 at Maranga, in Persia.

Jovian

Flavius Jovianus

c. 331 at Belgrade

June 27, 363 sole emperor

February 16, 364 died at Dadastana of accidental suffocation