Legio I Flavia Gallicana Constantia

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Sign painting of the Prima Flavia Gallicana Constantia in the early 5th century

The Legio I Flavia Gallicana Constantia ("the reliable Gallic 1st Flavian Legion") was a legion of the late ancient Roman army.

The legion was probably raised by Constantius I (293 / 305-306) to protect the coasts in Aremorica ( Brittany ) as a limitanei (border army). During the 4th century vexillations were split off. The Praefectus militum primae Flaviae stationed in Constantia was subordinate to the Dux tractus Armoricani et Nervicani . The Prima Flavia Gallicana Constantia was used to pseudocomitatenses (field army) and under the supreme command of Magister Peditum Praesentalis until the 5th century in the west of the Roman Empire . The Prima Flavia Gallicana was subordinate to the Magister Equitum Galliarum

It is also possible that the Legio I Flavia Constantia in the east of the Roman Empire was a mobile vexillation separated from the Legion.

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  1. ↑ a b Notitia Dignitatum Occ. V.
  2. ^ Jona Lendering: Legio I Flavia Gallicana Constantia . In: Livius.org (English).
  3. ↑ Notitia Dignitatum Occ. XXXVII; see: Ralf Scharf: The Dux Mogontiacensis and the Notitia Dignitatum. A study on border defense in late antiquity , series: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (supplementary volumes), Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-11-018835-X , p. 247.
  4. ↑ Notitia Dignitatum Occ. VII.
  5. ↑ Ralf Scharf: The Dux Mogontiacensis and the Notitia Dignitatum. A study on border defense in late antiquity , series: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (supplementary volumes), Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-11-018835-X , pp. 228–229.