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Legio I Flavia Constantia

January 01, 1970

Legio I Flavia Constantia was a Roman legion, mentioned in the Notitia Dignitatum as a comitatenses (field army) unit stationed in the Eastern Empire.[1]

Shield pattern of the Legio I Flavia Constantia, according to the Notitia Dignitatum.

The name of the unit means "reliable Flavian legion". Jona Lendering argues that this indicates it was founded in the reign of an emperor named Constantius of the Flavian dynasty, and therefore must have been founded by Constantius II (r. 337–361), the only Flavius Constantius that ruled the Eastern Empire.[1] One alternative explanation is that it originated as a vexillatio (detachment) of Legio I Flavia Gallicana Constantia,[2] founded by Constantius Chlorus and stationed in Armorica in Gaul.[3] Another is that it was originally called Legio IV Galeriana Thebeorum, named after Galerius and renamed by his rivals after his death.[4]

According to Ammianus Marcellinus,[5] Primus Flavia Constantia was stationed with Legio I Parthica in Singara until 360, when the city was conquered by Shapur II of the Sasanian Empire. The survivors of the siege were taken to Persia as prisoners.[6]

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  1. ^ a b Lendering, Jona (2002). "Legio I Flavia Constantia". Livius.org. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
  2. ^ Scharf, Ralf (2005). Der Dux Mogontiacensis und die Notitia Dignitatum: eine Studie zur spätantiken Grenzverteidigung (in German). Berlin: De Gruyter. pp. 228–229. ISBN 978-1-4416-1772-9. OCLC 191935869.
  3. ^ Lendering, Jona (2002). "Legio I Flavia Gallicana Constantia". Livius.org. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  4. ^ O'Reilly, Donald (2011). Lost Legion Rediscovered: The Mystery of the Theban Legion. Barnsley: Pen and Sword. p. 191. ISBN 978-1-5267-7990-8.
  5. ^ Rolfe, J. C. (1862). Ammianus Marcellinus: Roman History. London: Bohn. There had been assigned for the protection of this city [Singara] two legions, the first Flavian and the first Parthian, and a great body of native troops, as well as a division of auxiliary cavalry which had been shut up in it through the suddenness of the attack made upon it.
  6. ^ Stoll, Oliver (2001). Römisches Heer und Gesellschaft: gesammelte Beiträge 1991-1999 (in German). Stuttgart: Steiner. pp. 266–267. ISBN 3-515-07817-7. OCLC 50381071.

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