Eutropia
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Eutropia was the name of two women on the Constantinian dynasty, which ruled over the Roman Empire at the beginning of the 4th century.
[edit] Wife of Maximianus
The first Eutropia (d. after 325) was of Syrian origin, and the wife of Emperor Maximian.
They had two children, Maxentius and Fausta, while elder daughter Theodora was probably the product of a previous marriage of Eutropia.
[edit] Mother of Nepotianus
The second Eutropia (d. 350) was the daughter of Emperor Constantius Chlorus and of Flavia Maximiana Theodora, and therefore half-sister of Emperor Constantine I.
She married Virius Nepotianus, consul in 336, and bore him a son, Nepotianus, who later became a short-lived Roman usurper, when Magnentius was proclaimed emperor in 350; after a period of twenty-eight days in early June 350, Nepotianus was killed, and probably this led to execution of Eutropia by order of Magnentius' magister officiorum Marcellinus.
