Basilina
Basilina (died 332/333) was the wife of Julius Constantius and the mother of Roman Emperor Julian, who in her honour gave the name Basilinopolis to a city in Bithynia (modern Pazarköy[disambiguation needed] near Gemlik, in Turkey).
Biography
Basilina was born of Greek origin,[1][2] the daughter of Caeionius Iulianus Camenius or, more likely, of Julius Julianus, she was educated by Mardonius, a eunuch who grew up in the house of her father. She became the second wife of Julius Constantius, whom she gave Julian; Basilina died a few months after childbirth. Her sister was the mother of Procopius.[3]
A Christian, initially she favoured the Arians, but gave her lands as an inheritance to the church of Ephesus. She was a relative of Bishop Eusebius of Nicomedia, her son's tutor.
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Bibliography
- DiMaio, Michael, "Julius Constantius and His Wives", De Imperatoribus Romanis
- Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, "Basilina", The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, volume 1, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-521-07233-6, p. 148.