Eutropia
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Eutropia was the name of two women on the Constantinian dynasty, which ruled over the Roman Empire at the beginning of the 4th century.
The wife of Maximianus
The first Eutropia (d. after AD 325) was the Syrian wife of Emperor Maximian.They had two children, Maxentius and Fausta, while elder daughter Theodora was probably the product of a previous marriage of Eutropia.
The mother of Nepotianus
The second Eutropia (d. AD 350) was the daughter of Emperor Constantius Chlorus and of Flavia Maximiana Theodora, and therefore half-sister of Emperor Constantine I.
She married Virius Nepotian, consul in AD 336, and bore him a son, Nepotianus, who later became a short-lived Roman usurper, when Magnentius was proclaimed emperor in AD 350; after a period of twenty-eight days in early June AD 350, Nepotianus was killed, and probably this led to execution of Eutropia by Magnentius' order.
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