But whereas Constantine's claim was recognized by Galerius, ruler of the Eastern provinces and the senior emperor in the empire, Maxentius was treated as a usurper.

The death of Galerius in May 311 and Constantine's spectacular victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge on October 28, 312, left only three Emperors: in the East, Maximinus Daia and Licinius ; in the West, Constantine.

* Medieval Edicts: Galerius and Constantine

* May 5 – Emperor Galerius declares on his deathbed religious freedom and issues his Edict of Toleration, ending persecution of Christians in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.

Maximinus has a bad name in Christian annals, as having renewed persecution after the publication of the toleration edict of Galerius ( see Edict of Toleration by Galerius ), acting outwardly as responding to the demands of various urban authorities asking for the expelling of Christians.

* Edict of Toleration ( 311 ), by Galerius before his death.

* 311 – The Edict of Toleration by Galerius was issued in 311 by the Roman Tetrarchy of Galerius, Constantine and Licinius, officially ending the Diocletian persecution of Christianity.

The Edict of Milan went a step further than the earlier Edict of Toleration by Galerius in 311, returning confiscated Church property.

Galerius rescinded the edict in 311, announcing that the persecution had failed to bring Christians back to traditional religion.

Compendium extract: Diocletian to the Death of Galerius: 284 – 311

Galerius died naturally in 311.

:: Illyricum Galerius ( 307 – 311 )

* Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus, Roman Emperor ( d. 311 )

Galerius (; c. 260 – April or May 311 ), was Roman Emperor from 305 to 311.

Although he was a staunch opponent of Christianity, Galerius ended the Diocletianic Persecution when he issued an edict of toleration in 311.

Then on the death of Galerius, in May 311, Licinius entered into an agreement with Maximinus Daia, to share the eastern provinces between them.

On the death of Galerius, in 311, Maximinus divided the Eastern Empire between Licinius and himself.

Three Roman Emperors were born in the municipality of Zaječar ; Galerius ( r. 293 – 311 ), Maximinus ( r. 305 – 312 ) and Licinius ( r. 308 – 324 ).

A previous edict of toleration had been recently issued by the emperor Galerius from Serdica and posted up at Nicomedia on 30 April 311.

Having received the emperor Galerius ' instruction to repeal the persecution in 311, Maximinus had instructed his subordinates to desist, but had not released Christians from prisons or virtual death-sentences in the mines, as Constantine and Licinius had both done in the West.

In 311 AD, Roman Emperor Galerius issued a general edict of toleration of Christianity, in his own name and in those of Licinius and Constantine I ( who converted to Christianity the following year ).

* 311 – Galerius dies at Sardica.

* Galerius Maximianus, Roman emperor, 305 – 311

** 311, Emperor Galerius dies from disease, Suicide of Ex-Emperor Diocletian.

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Their marriage was the occasion for the jointly-issued " Edict of Milan " that reissued Galerius ' previous edict allowing Christianity to be professed in the Empire, with additional dispositions that restored confiscated properties to Christian congregations and exempted Christian clergy from municipal civic duties. The redaction of the edict as reproduced by Lactantius-who follows the text affixed by Licinius in Nicomedia on June 14 313, after Maximinus ' defeat-uses a neutral language, expressing a will to propitiate " any Divinity whatsoever in the seat of the heavens ".

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Diocletian spent the spring of 293 traveling with Galerius from Sirmium ( Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia ) to Byzantium ( Istanbul, Turkey ).

Galerius was reinforced, probably in the spring of 298, by a new contingent collected from the Empire's Danubian holdings.

Narseh did not advance from Armenia and Mesopotamia, leaving Galerius to lead the offensive in 298 with an attack on northern Mesopotamia via Armenia.

Antioch was Diocletian's primary residence from 299 to 302, while Galerius swapped places with his Augustus on the Middle and Lower Danube.

Diocletian argued that forbidding Christians from the bureaucracy and military would be sufficient to appease the gods, but Galerius pushed for extermination.

A chart of the tetrarchy from 305 to 306, after the retirement of Diocletian and his colleague Maximian, and the accession of Constantius I | Constantius and Galerius.

The first book sketches briefly the history of the early Roman emperors from Augustus to Diocletian ( 305 ); the second, third and fourth deal more fully with the period from the accession of Constantius Chlorus and Galerius to the death of Theodosius I ; the fifth and sixth, the most useful for historians, cover the period between 395 and 410, when Priscus Attalus was deposed ; for this period, he is the most important surviving non-ecclesiastical source.

Between 303 and 305, Galerius began maneuvering to ensure that he would be in a position to take power from Constantius after the passing of Diocletian.

Maxentius refrained from using the titles Augustus or Caesar at first and styled himself princeps invictus ( Undefeated Prince ), in the hope of obtaining recognition of his reign by the senior emperor Galerius.

Apart from his alleged antipathy towards Maxentius, Galerius probably wanted to deter others from following the examples of Constantine and Maxentius and declaring themselves emperors.

Examples from the 3rd century are the brick domes of the Mausoleum of Galerius, the Mausoleum of Diocletian, and the mausoleum at Tor de ' Schiavi.

* Galerius, Roman emperor ( 305-311 ), ruled as Caesar during the Tetrarchy from residence in Sirmium ( 293-296 ).

( Preserves image of the now lost head of Galerius, possibly from the large Arch of Galerius.

* Galerius, Roman emperor ( 305-311 ), ruled as Caesar during the Tetrarchy from residence in Sirmium ( 293-296 ).

Porphyry is also known as an opponent of Christianity and defender of Paganism ; his defense of traditional religion, Philosophy from Oracles, written before the persecutions of Christians under Diocletian and Galerius, set out the basis for them:

* Publius Flavius Galerius Valerius Licinianus Licinius, emperor from AD 307 to 324.

These rooms display architectural members from an Ionic temple of the 6 < SUP > th </ SUP > century bc, sculptures of all periods from Macedonia, exhibits from the excavations in the palace complex built by Galerius in Thessaloniki city centre, a reconstruction of the facade of the Macedonian tomb in Ayia Paraskevi, Thessaloniki prefecture, with genuine architectural members, and finds ( mainly gold artefacts ) of the Archaic and Classical periods from the Sindos cemetery.