# Fausta dies in the 326 cluster, a second imperial killing under Constantine’s household

Date: 326

## The fact

In 326 Fausta died in the same purge season as Crispus. Later writers supply a bath or a plot.

It is one event.

## Context

Women of the dynasty had little independent court. A rights path here is analogical: unprotected persons inside the palace.

[Constantine the Great](/people/constantine-the-great)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Same 326 fog as Crispus. Fausta was his wife and Maximian’s daughter. Later anecdotes of a overheated bath are moral theatre.
Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

The same Britannica/Livius cluster that records Crispus records Fausta’s end and the anecdotal overlay.

Official or archival record: Livius — Constantine I (https://www.livius.org/articles/person/constantine-the-great/; Livius.org).

## Significance

An empress dead in a purge season is a rights-harm heading with source uncertainty preserved.

Split Crispus so one row is not two bodies averaged.

An empress dead in a purge season is a rights-harm heading with source uncertainty preserved.

## What is established and what is not

Established: received 326 death of Fausta in Constantine’s household cluster. Not established: the bath story as a medical record.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Constantine the Great.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

They are not a public rating.

## People

- Constantine the Great: https://factrail.ai/people/constantine-the-great

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Constantine-I-Roman-emperor
- https://www.livius.org/articles/person/constantine-the-great/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/co-fausta-death-326