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of Christianity, Galerius ended the Diocletianic Persecution when he issued the Edict of Toleration in Serdica (Sofia) in 311. Galerius was born near Serdica...

Diocletian and Maximian retired simultaneously. The succession did not go entirely to Maximian's liking: perhaps because of Galerius' influence, Galerius' former...

286–305 Galerius Maximianus, Roman emperor, 305–311 Magnus Maximus, or Maximianus (c. 335–388), usurping ruler of the Western Roman Empire Maximian (bishop...

son Hercules. Galerius and Constantius were appointed caesares in March 293. Diocletian and Maximian retired on 1 May 305, raising Galerius and Constantius...

At the same time, Severus was promoted to augustus by Galerius. Lactantius reports that Galerius had done this to promote the older man to the higher office...

Valeria Maximilla, daughter of Emperor Galerius by his first wife. Through his father, he was also grandson of Maximian the Tetrarch, whom he predeceased....

deliberations at the meeting, Maximian was to retire permanently from his imperial position; Licinius (r. 308–324), a former general of Galerius, was raised as the...

1 March 293, appointing Galerius and Constantius as junior colleagues (each with the title Caesar), under himself and Maximian respectively. Under the...

Nikomēdeias, died 4 March 306) was a Herculian Guard of the Roman Emperor Galerius Maximian. After becoming a convert to Christianity with his wife Natalia (Ναταλία)...

of large sums of money and the authority of Maximian, many soldiers of Galerius defected to him. Galerius was forced to withdraw, plundering Italy on...

of large sums of money, and the authority of Maximian, many soldiers of Galerius defected to him. Galerius was forced to withdraw, plundering Italy on...

Severus a hostage, in an attempt to keep Galerius at bay. Summer: Anticipating an offensive by Galerius, Maximian travels to Gaul to make an alliance with...

the Roman Empire, Galerius recalls Diocletian briefly from retirement, and they convene with Maximian. Diocletian persuades Maximian to return to retirement...

Maximian's son Maxentius were to be promoted to the rank of caesar once Diocletian and Maximian had resigned the purple, by the end of 304 Galerius had...

Christians in the Roman Empire. In 303, the emperors Diocletian, Maximian, Galerius, and Constantius issued a series of edicts rescinding Christians'...

Adrian of Nicomedia (died 306), Herculian Guard of the Roman Emperor Galerius Maximian Adrian of Canterbury (died 710), scholar and the Abbot of St Augustine's...

Maximian from retirement, who joins his son in Rome. Winter: Constantine fights with success against the Franks. Galerius has the Rotunda of Galerius...

between seven simultaneous emperors: Galerius (East), Maximinus II (East), Licinius (Middle), Constantine I (West), Maximian (West), Maxentius (Italy), and...

over the Persians, Galerius commissions the Arch of Galerius in Thessaloniki (modern Greece). In this or the following year, Galerius campaigns with success...

conflict between Maxentius and his father Maximian in April 308, and Zosimos confused Galerius with Maximian in his account. Apart from the provinces in...