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	Maximian
		Born from a poor family, Maximian made a career in the army until in 285 the new emperor Diocletian, a friend of his, made him caesar (sub-emperor), making him the ruler of the western part of the empire.
		Maximian resolved the conflicts around this emperorship by defeating Severus and Galerius in battle and bringing Constantinus son Constantine on his side by having Constantine marry his daughter Fausta[?].
		However, in 308 Maximian rebelled against his own son, and marched upon Rome, but was beaten and forced to withdraw to Constantine in Gaul.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Maximian.html (263 words)

	Maximian. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Maximian abdicated with Diocletian in 305, but the death of Constantius in 306 brought confusion to the political scene—there was a struggle for power among Severus (d.307), Galerius, Constantine (Constantine I, son of Constantius), and Maxentius (son of Maximian).
		Maximian plunged into the conflict, at first to aid his son in Italy; he captured Severus, repulsed Galerius, and won over Constantine, to whom he gave his daughter Fausta in marriage.
		Then Maximian and Maxentius became enemies, and, having failed to depose his son, Maximian fled to Constantine and abdicated again (308).
	www.bartleby.com /65/ma/Maximian.html (216 words)

	Maximian
		Maximian was born near Sirmium at around AD 250 to a poor shopkeeper's family.
		Maximian's praetorian prefect Constantius Chlorus was adopted as son and Caesar (junior Augustus).
		Maximian withdrew either to Lucania or to a sumptuous residence near Philophiana in Sicily.
	www.roman-empire.net /decline/maximian.html (1073 words)

	(125) Maximian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Maximian dealt with German invasions and rebellion in Gaul while Diocletian remained in the East to fight the Persians.
		Diocletian and Maximian remained the Augusti, and Diocletian appointed Constantius and Galerius Caesares.
		The obverse portrait of Maximian is the typical military type with short hair and beard; the type on Diocletian's coins is virtually identical, the similarity probably a means of expressing the concord and unity of the tetrarchs.
	www.lawrence.edu /dept/art/buerger/catalogue/125.html (229 words)

	Gutenkarte » History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir... » Chapter 36
		Maximian was born a peasant, and, like Aurelian, in the territory of Sirmium.
		Italy and Africa were considered as the department of Maximian; and for his peculiar portion, Diocletian reserved Thrace, Egypt, and the rich countries of Asia.
		Maximian had no sooner recovered Gaul from the hands of the peasants, than he lost Britain by the usurpation of Carausius.
	gutenkarte.org /section/731/36 (4141 words)

	Maximian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maximian probably participated to the Mesopotamian campaign of Carus in 283, so that he was with Diocletian in 284 at Nicomedia, when his colleague was elected emperor.
		Maximian declared himself emperor for the third time, gaining the loyalty of the troops through a donativum, but was unable to defend himself against Constantine, who quickly moved to Arelate to besiege his father-in-law.
		Maximian married Eutropia, and from their union Maxentius (Caesar of the West and later usurper) and Fausta (later wife of Constantine I) were born.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maximian (829 words)

	T.D. Barnes on Diocletian
		Maximian, raised from Caesar to Augustus on I April 286, was at Mainz on 21 June and probably proceeded from there toward the theater of war.
		Maximian devoted the whole of the campaigning season of 287 to a German expedition, crossing the Rhine and parading Roman strength far beyond the imperial frontier.
		Maximian had probably ceased to lead troops on active campaign; his army fought now under the command of Constantius, who prosecuted warfare on the Rhine with vigor and perhaps with ostentation.
	www.richmond.edu /~wstevens/history331texts/barnes.html (5094 words)

	Coins of Maximian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Maximian was a tough, battle-hardened general, but also had a reputation for being ill tempered and menacing.
		Maximian returned to Rome in April 308 attempting to oust his son, but his attempt to win over the troops failed and he retreated back to Constantine's court.
		Maximian was forced to re-abdicate, and he returned to the court of Constantine.
	www.ruark.org /coins/Roman/5Tetrarchy/Maximian.html (703 words)

	Rome - Vol I, Chapter XIV, Part 2
		Notwithstanding the superiority of his age and dignity, the indefatigable Maximian passed the Alps, and, courting a personal interview with the sovereign of Gaul, carried with him his daughter Fausta as the pledge of the new alliance.
		An incursion of the Franks had summoned Constantine, with a part of his army, to the banks of the Rhine; the remainder of the troops were stationed in the southern provinces of Gaul, which lay exposed to the enterprises of the Italian emperor, and a considerable treasure was deposited in the city of Arles.
		The veteran troops, who revered the name of Maximian, had embraced in both those wars the party of his son, and were now restrained by a sense of honor, as well as of interest, from entertaining an idea of a second desertion.
	www.cca.org /cm/rome/vol1/ch1402.html (3102 words)

	DECLINE & FALL
		As soon as Diocletian and Maximian had resigned the purple, their station, according to the rules of the new constitution, was filled by the two Caesars, Constantius and Galerius, who immediately assumed the title of Augustus.
		Maximian, who conducted the siege in person, was soon convinced that he might waste his time and his army in the fruitless enterprise, and that he had nothing to hope either from force or famine.
		The emissaries of Maximian easily persuaded his credulity that a conspiracy was formed to betray the town, and prevailed upon his fears not to expose himself to the discretion of an irritated conqueror, but to accept the faith of an honourable capitulation.
	matrix.csustan.edu /XLib/History/Decline/volume1/chap14.htm (13594 words)

	The Cult of St. Typasius
		Maximian Augustus said, "You can have what you want, if you fulfil your promise." Immediately he ordered him to be placed under guard, so that he might pay the penalty if what he had predicted should not prove true.
		And immediately Maximian Augustus ordered most blessed Typasius to be brought to him and he gave to him an honourable discharge with the whole army as witness.
		But Maximian, who had been the principal architect of this persecution, was found out by his daughter Fausta while he was preparing a trap for his son-in-law the emperor Constantine and pretending to be at odds with his son Maxentius.
	www.ucc.ie /milmart/Typasius.html (1634 words)

	Tetrarchy of Diocletian
		With Maximian handling the defense of the western empire, Diocletian could focus his attentions on the east without fear of attacks from the rear.
		Maximian enjoyed a similar string of successes in the west, though there were a few glaring exceptions.
		In the west, under Maximian and Constantius, these edicts were mostly ignored, but in the east, they were enforced with vigor.
	www.garstang.us /emperors/tetofdiocletian.htm (752 words)

	Gutenkarte » History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir... » Chapter 40
		According to the forms of the constitution, Severus acknowledged the supremacy of the western emperor; but he was absolutely devoted to the commands of his benefactor Galerius, who, reserving to himself the intermediate countries from the confines of Italy to those of Syria, firmly established his power over three fourths of the monarchy.
		The emissaries of Maximian easily persuaded his credulity, that a conspiracy was formed to betray the town, and prevailed upon his fears not to expose himself to the discretion of an irritated conqueror, but to accept the faith of an honorable capitulation.
		Maximian conducted the captive emperor to Rome, and gave him the most solemn assurances that he had secured his life by the resignation of the purple.
	gutenkarte.org /section/731/40 (4870 words)

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		After the revolt was quelled, the Emperor Maximian issued an order that the whole army should join offering sacrifices for the Roman gods for the success of their mission.
		After the second decimation, Maximian warned the remainder of the Theban legion that it was of no use for them to trust in their number, for if they persisted in their disobedience, not a man among them would be able to escape death.
		Fired thus by the lead of their officers, the Theban legion sent to Maximian (who was still enraged) a reply as loyal as it is brave: ``Emperor, we are your soldiers but also the soldiers of the true God.
	www.coptic.net /synexarion/MauriceOfTheba.txt (1953 words)

	Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VII: Lactantius: Chap. XXIX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Maximian advised the unsuspecting Constantine not to lead all his troops against them, and he said that a few soldiers would suffice to subdue those barbarians.
		Maximian waited a few days; and as soon as, by his calculation, Constantine had entered the territory of the barbarians, he suddenly resumed the imperial purple, seized the public treasures, after his wont made ample donatives to the soldiery, and feigned that such disasters had befallen Constantine as soon after befell himself.
		Maximian, not yet prepared to oppose him, was overpowered at unawares, and the soldiers returned to their duty.
	www.sacred-texts.com /chr/ecf/007/0070338.htm (386 words)

	OCA - The Lives of the Saints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Martyr Glycerius of the 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia
		Martyr Theophilus of the 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia
		Martyr Dorotheus of the 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia
	www.oca.org /FSlives.asp?SID=4&M=12&D=28 (592 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Maximian
		Surrendering to Maximian (father of Maxentius) at Ravenna on the condition that his life be spared, Severus was taken to Rome.
		He was stationed in Gaul, but Emperor Maximian suspected him of conspiring with the Germans and condemned him to death.
		She was the wife of Constantine I, the daughter of Maximian, and the mother of Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans I. It is said that she was put to death by Constantine I when she falsely accused Crispus, Constantine's son by his
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Maximian (553 words)

	The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire - Vol 1 - Chapter XIII Part I
		Although the youth of Constantius had been spent in arms, he was endowed with a mild and amiable disposition, and the popular voice had long since acknowledged him worthy of the rank which he at last attained.
		To strengthen the bonds of political, by those of domestic, union, each of the emperors assumed the character of a father to one of the Cæsars, Diocletian to Galerius, and Maximian to Constantius; and each, obliging them to repudiate their former wives, bestowed his daughter in marriage or his adopted son.
		The suspicious jealousy of power found not any place among them; and the singular happiness of their union has been compared to a chorus of music, whose harmony was regulated and maintained by the skilful hand of the first artist.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/roman/TheDeclineandFallofTheRomanEmpire-1/chap36.html (3171 words)

	The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire XIII
		Maximian, the equal partner of his power, was his only companion in the glory of that day.
		The life of Diocletian and Maximian was a life of action, and a considerable portion of it was spent in camps, or in their long and frequent marches; but whenever the public business allowed them any relaxation, they seemed to have retired with pleasure to their favourite residences of Nicomedia and Milan.
		As the sovereign of Italy, Maximian was intrusted with the care of extinguishing this troublesome rather than dangerous spirit, and the task was perfectly suited to his cruel temper.
	www.ccel.org /g/gibbon/decline/volume1/chap13.htm (13213 words)

	GERRYMANDERING AN EMPIRE
		Diocletian established his court in Nicomedia, Galerius at Sirmium, Maximian at Milan and Constantius Chlorus at Trier.
		They believed Maxentius, Maximian's son, would be the new Caesar in the West, and Constantine, Constantius' son, would take over in the East.
		Thinking Maximian could not be trusted, Constantine ordered his execution in 310.
	www.christianchronicler.com /history1/gerrymandering_an_empire.html (1603 words)

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		Maximian was one mean, heartless bastard of an emperor.
		When the poop hit the fan a year or two later and the new emperors were fighting it out Maximian came out of retirement and put on his purple robes again.
		Diocletian, who was in the background during all this, called a truce amongst the various emperors and caesars and as part of the deal Maximian was to give it up for a second time.
	www.rasiel.com /hakarl/maximian.html (292 words)

	Diocletian Summary
		The wisdom of this policy was immediately demonstrated by Maximian's military successes in Gaul, Germany, and North Africa between 286 and 290.
		He and Maximian adopted as their caesars and aides Galerius and Constantius (I) Chlorus, respectively, and each young man was prevailed upon to divorce his wife and become the son-in-law of his augustus.
		Maximian assumed the general supervision of the West (prefecture of Italy) with headquarters in Milan; Constantius had special responsibility in Gaul and Britain and Galerius in the Balkans (Illyrium).
	www.bookrags.com /Diocletian (3742 words)

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