Hannibalianus
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Flavius Hannibalianus (also Hanniballianus) (d. September AD 337) was a member of the Constantinian dynasty, which ruled over the Roman Empire in the 4th century AD.
Hannibalianus was the son of Flavius Dalmatius, and thus nephew of Constantine I. Hannibalianus and his brother Dalmatius were educated at Tolosa (Toulouse) by rhetor Exuperius.
In AD 320s, Constantine called Flavius Dalmatius and his sons to Constantinople, and Hannibalianus married Constantine's elder daughter, Constantina and was made Caesar.
In occasion of the campaign of Constantine against the Sassanids (AD 337), Hannibalianus was made Rex Regum et Ponticarum Gentium, "King of the Kings and of the Ponthic People". Probably it was Constantine intention to put Hannibalianus on the Ponthic throne, after the defeat of the Parthians.
The Parthian campaign did not take place, because Constantine died in May AD 337. Hannibalianus died, as his brother, in the purge of the imperial family that followed.
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