Legio II Flavia Constantiniana

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Painted shield of the Secunda Flavia Constantiniana in the early 5th century.

The Legio II Flavia Constantiniana was a legion of the late Roman army.

The legion was possibly formed by Constantine the Great around the year 312 by renaming from a legion of the emperors Severus , Licinius , Maximinus Daia , Domitius Alexander or Maxentius .

Initially, the Legion was probably stationed in Italy. Between 414 and 421 two parts of the Legion, called Constantiniani , were relocated to Africa to counter the threat posed by the vandals.

The Legio Secunda Flavia Constantiniana served in the early 5th century as Comitatenses (field army) under the supreme command of Magister Peditum Praesentalis . The Constantiniani were also under the command of the Magister Equitum per Gallias as Comitatenses and served under the Comes Tingitaniae in the province of Mauretania Tingitana (northern Morocco) and under the Comes Africae in Africa proconsularis (Libya).

It is uncertain whether the Constantiniani, serving as Auxilia palatina under the supreme command of the Magister Militum Praesentalis in the east of the empire, also emerged from the Legio II Flavia Constantiniana or the Legio I Flavia Victrix Constantina .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Noel Emmanuel Lenski: The Cambridge Companions to the Age of Constantine (= Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World. Volume 13). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2006, ISBN 0-521-52157-2 , p. 331.
  2. ↑ Ralf Scharf: The Dux Mogontiacensis and the Notitia Dignitatum. A study on the late antique border defense (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Supplementary volumes 50). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2005, ISBN 3-11-018835-X , pp. 162-163.
  3. ↑ Notitia Dignitatum Occ. V.
  4. ↑ Notitia Dignitatum Occ. VII.
  5. ↑ Notitia Dignitatum Or. VI.
  6. ↑ Jan den Boeft, Jan Willem Drijvers, Daniel den Hengst, Hans C. Teitler (ed.): Ammianus after Julian. The reign of Valentinian and Valens in Books 26 - 31 of the Res Gestae (= Mnemosyne . Supplementum 289). Brill, Leiden et al. 2007, ISBN 978-90-04-16212-9 , p. 135.