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Constantine’s father, Constantius I, was appointed to the position of augustus (emperor) by the time Constantine reached young adulthood. Constantine made his mother, Helena (Constantius’s wife or concubine), empress when his army proclaimed him emperor in 306 CE. Constantine himself had two wives: Minerva (or Minervina), who bore Constantine his firstborn child, Crispus; and Fausta, the daughter of the previous Western emperor who bore him three sons. In 326, Constantine put Crispus and Fausta to death—an episode that has attracted much speculation but few definitive answers. Constantine left the empire to his three surviving sons upon his death in 337.

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