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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2323835, member: 44316&quot;]As long as we are posting relatives of Constantine, we need to see a Delmatius:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]470223[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]470224[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>18 Sept. 335 - summer 337</p><p>FL DELMATIVS NOB C</p><p>GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS</p><p>Two soldiers and one standard.</p><p>SMANI</p><p>Antioch mint. RIC 112.</p><p>Delmatius, sometimes spelled with an A, &quot;Dalmatius,&quot; was a grandson of Constantine&#039;s father by his second wife, Theodora. Delmatius was killed in the &quot;Great Massacre&quot; of 337 shortly after the death of Constantine. R. W. Burgess writes in &quot;The Summer of Blood&quot; (Dumbarton Oaks papers volume 62 (2008) pp.5-51), &quot;Although Constantine was the first Christian emperor, his reign was marred by more familial bloodshed than that of any other Roman emperor: he himself was involved in one degree or another in the deaths of his wife&#039;s father, his wife&#039;s brother, his half-sister&#039;s husband, his eldest son, his wife, and another half-sister&#039;s husband and son. ... Moreover, after his death most of the male descendants of Constantius I, his father, and Theodora, Constantius&#039;s second wife and Constantine&#039;s stepmother and half-sister-in-law, were assassinated in a plot that involved at least one of this sons.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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