Galla_(wife_of_Julius_Constantius)
Galla (wife of Julius Constantius)
First wife of Julius Constantius
Galla was the first known wife of Julius Constantius, a member of the Constantinian dynasty.
| Galla | |
|---|---|
| Died | before 332 |
| Spouse | Julius Constantius |
| Issue | Unnamed son[1] Unnamed daughter Gallus |
| Dynasty | Constantinian |
Galla was the sister of the consul Neratius Cerealis and of the praetorian prefect Vulcacius Rufinus.[2]
She married Julius Constantius, son of Constantius Chlorus and half-brother of Emperor Constantine I. They had three children: a son, who died with his father in the purges of 337,[3] a daughter, who married her cousin Constantius II,[lower-alpha 1] and finally Constantius Gallus, later Caesar of the East, born around 325.[5] It has been proposed that Galla and Julius had another daughter, who may have been the mother of the empress Justina.[6]
Galla died before her husband, as Gallus was then entrusted to the care of Eusebius, bishop of Nicomedia.[7]
- Her name was probably Galla, Julia or Constantia, the names of her parents.[4]
- Jones, Martindale & Morris, p. 226.
- Julian, Letter to the Athenians, 270D.
- Noel Emmanuel Lenski, The Cambridge companion to the Age of Constantine, Volume 13, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-521-52157-2, p. 107.
- Lenski, p. 97.
- Jones, A.H.M.; J.R. Martindale & J. Morris (1971). Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-07233-6.