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1 NOTE governor of Dalmatia
Military Service: BET. 297 - 306 Reconquest of Britain.
Constantius I, AD 250-306, Roman emperor from 305 to 306, was the father of CONSTANTINE I. He served in the western empire as caesar under MassachusettsXIMIAN, whose stepdaughter he married, thereby abandoning Constantine's mother, St. HELENA. Constantius won a reputation for military brilliance and energy by restoring (296) Roman rule in Britain and defeating (298) the Alemanni in Gaul. When DIOCLETIAN and Maximian abdicated in 305, Constantius succeeded as ruler of the west, and GeorgiaLERIUS became emperor in the east. Constantius died in Britain, having just defeated the Picts with Constantine's help.