Huhhhh. Were Roman emperors just really bad at thinking about the succession? I guess that's maybe not entirely surprising, given how many people I know are just SO SO BAD at figuring out things like how eldercare is going to work and writing a will and so on.
(by a bishop named Eusebius, who is an Arian, which becomes a tad inconvenient later because the Arian heresy is seen as heresy etc.)
Oh, haha, I knew about the deathbed baptism (though I had to be reminded) but I don't think I knew he was baptized by an Arian! AWKWARD.
And then, depending on the historian, either Constantius organizes the death of every single male offspring of the Chlorus/Theodora marriage and the sons of said offsprings except for the two youngest (Gallus and Julian, who are very young children), or some soldiers do it completely on their own initiative because they hate the Theodora line of the family that much.
WELP I am actually surprised that Gallus and Julian were allowed to live, though?
Incidentally, all these dead well trained soldiers mean that the Roman armies start to suffer from serious losses, and there's a reason right there as to why it won't last undivided much longer and why invading barbarians are just around the corner.
Oh wow. That's really something. It makes sense but I'd never connected all those dots before.
Yes, he's Julian the Apostate, and he'll only rule two years before dying as the last member of the short lived Constantinian dynasty.
Re: Constantinian Aftermath
(by a bishop named Eusebius, who is an Arian, which becomes a tad inconvenient later because the Arian heresy is seen as heresy etc.)
Oh, haha, I knew about the deathbed baptism (though I had to be reminded) but I don't think I knew he was baptized by an Arian! AWKWARD.
And then, depending on the historian, either Constantius organizes the death of every single male offspring of the Chlorus/Theodora marriage and the sons of said offsprings except for the two youngest (Gallus and Julian, who are very young children), or some soldiers do it completely on their own initiative because they hate the Theodora line of the family that much.
WELP
I am actually surprised that Gallus and Julian were allowed to live, though?
Incidentally, all these dead well trained soldiers mean that the Roman armies start to suffer from serious losses, and there's a reason right there as to why it won't last undivided much longer and why invading barbarians are just around the corner.
Oh wow. That's really something. It makes sense but I'd never connected all those dots before.
Yes, he's Julian the Apostate, and he'll only rule two years before dying as the last member of the short lived Constantinian dynasty.
!! The twist ending!