Patriarch John of Antioch approved the refusal of the bishop of Tarsus, and praised him for having declined to insert the name of Maximian in the diptychs of his church.

Harmony being restored, John of Antioch and the other Eastern bishops wrote Maximian a letter of communion indicating their consent to his election and to the deposition of Nestorius.

He was the third son of Constantine the Great, and second by his second wife Fausta, the daughter of Maximian.

Although effective while he ruled, Diocletian's Tetrarchic system collapsed after his abdication under the competing dynastic claims of Maxentius and Constantine, sons of Maximian and Constantius respectively.

Constantius succeeded Maximian as Augustus of the West, but Constantine and Maxentius were entirely ignored in the transition of power.

* 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.

By 308 there were therefore no fewer than four claimants to the rank of Augustus ( Galerius, Constantine, Maximian and Maxentius ), and only one to that of Caesar ( Maximinus ).

These were Domitian whose violent death in 96 ended the Flavian Dynasty, the co-emperor Publius Septimius Geta, whose memory was publicly expunged by his co-emperor brother Caracalla after he murdered him in 211, and in 311 Maximian, who was captured by Constantine the Great and then encouraged to commit suicide.

* April – Roman usurper Maxentius banishes his father, Maximian, who flees to the court of Constantine the Great in Augusta Treverorum ( modern Trier ).

* March 31 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine the Great marries Fausta Flavia Maxima, the daughter of the retired co-emperor Maximian.

* Maximian, retired co-emperor, rebelled against Constantine the Great while campaigning against the Franks, he attempts to make himself emperor at Arles.

Constantine I encourages his suicide and Maximian, age 60, hangs himself.

Although prior to 303 there appeared to be tacit agreement between the Tetrarchs that Constantius ’ s son, Constantine and Maximian ’ s son Maxentius were to be promoted to the rank of Caesar once Diocletian and Maximian had resigned the purple, by the end of 304 Galerius had convinced Diocletian ( who in turn convinced Maximian ) to appoint Galerius ’ s nominees Severus and Maximinus Daia as Caesars.

Beginning in 307 already, he tried to arrange friendly contacts with Constantine, and in the summer of that year, Maximian traveled to Gaul, where Constantine married his daughter Fausta and was in turn appointed Augustus by the senior emperor.

In 308, probably April, Maximian tried to depose his son in an assembly of soldiers in Rome ; surprisingly to him, the present troops remained faithful to his son, and he had to flee to Constantine.

After the death of Maximian in 309 or 310, relations with Constantine rapidly deteriorated, and Maxentius allied with Maximinus to counter an alliance between Constantine and Licinius.

Before Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire during the reign of the Emperor Constantine I, Diocletian and Maximian passed strict anti-polygamy laws in 285 that mandated monogamy was the only form of legal marital configuration, as had traditionally been the case in classical Greece and Rome themselves.

In 307, Constantine allied to the Italian Augusti, and this alliance was sealed with the marriage of Constantine to Fausta, daughter of Maximian and sister of Maxentius.

* 310 – Maximian again proclaims himself emperor, but is captured by Constantine.

In 310 Maximian died as a consequence of an assassination plot against Constantine.

He was the third son of Constantine the Great, and second by his second wife Fausta, the daughter of Maximian.

* St. Lollianus, one of the Seven Martyrs of Samosata, crucified with Saint Hipparchus and Philotheus, Abibus, James, Paregrus and Romanus by the emperor Maximian in 297 for their refusal to participate in public worship of the Roman gods.

Some historians state that Diocletian, like some emperors before him, adopted Maximian as his filius Augusti, his " Augustan son ", upon his appointment to the throne.

* Mediolanum ( modern Milan, near the Alps ) was the capital of Maximian, the western Augustus ; his domain became " Italia et Africa ", with only a short exterior border.

* Maximian: father of Maxentius, adoptive father and stepfather-in-law of Constantius I " Chlorus ", father-in-law of Constantine, stepgrandfather-in-law of Licinius

* Constantine: son ( and stepbrother-in-law ) of Constantius I " Chlorus ", son-in-law of Maximian, brother-in-law of Maxentius, half-brother-in-law of Licinius

* Maxentius: son of Maximian, son-in-law of Galerius, adoptive brother and half-brother-in-law of Constantius I " Chlorus ", brother-in-law of Constantine

* Licinius: son-in-law of Constantius I " Chlorus ", half-brother-in-law of Constantine, half-nephew of Maxentius, stepgrandson-in-law of Maximian

* Constantine I: son ( and stepbrother-in-law ) of Constantius I " Chlorus ", son-in-law of Maximian, brother-in-law of Maxentius, half-brother-in-law of Licinius, father of Crispus, Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans I, half-uncle and father-in-law of Julian the Apostate

* Constantine II: son of Constantine I, grandson of Constantius I " Chlorus ", grandson of Maximian, nephew of Maxentius, half-nephew of Licinius, brother of Crispus, Constantius II, and Constans I, half-cousin and brother-in-law of Julian the Apostate

* Constantius II: son of Constantine I, grandson of Constantius I " Chlorus ", grandson of Maximian, nephew of Maxentius, half-nephew of Licinius, brother of Crispus, Constantine II, and Constans I, half-cousin and brother-in-law of Julian the Apostate, father-in-law of Gratianus

* Constans I: son of Constantine I, grandson of Constantius I " Chlorus ", grandson of Maximian, nephew of Maxentius, half-nephew of Licinius, brother of Crispus, Constantine II, and Constantius II, half-cousin and brother-in-law of Julian the Apostate

* Julian the Apostate: grandson of Constantius I " Chlorus ", step-great-grandson of Maximian, step-great-nephew of Maxentius, half-nephew and son-in-law of Constantine I, half-cousin and brother-in-law of Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans I

* Letters, The Life of Paulus the First Hermit, The Life of S. Hilarion, The Life of Malchus, the Captive Monk, The Dialogue Against the Luciferians, The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary, Against Jovinianus, Against Vigilantius, To Pammachius against John of Jerusalem, Against the Pelagians, Prefaces ( CCEL )

Earlier, the Gospel of John talks about Simon Peter striking the ear from a servant of the high priest, named Malchus ( John 18: 10, KJV ).

During the arrest in Gethsemane, someone ( Peter according to John ) takes a sword and cuts off the ear of the high priest's servant, Malchus.

However a counterargument to the theory is given by Penny Macgeorge in her own study Late Roman Warlords ( 2003 ), pages 284-285, based on the silence of both John Malalas and Malchus on a blood relation of Odoacer to the House of Leo.

According to John, Peter was the one who cut off the man's ear, who John says was a servant of the high priest Caiaphas named Malchus.

According to John he was recognized by a man who was in the garden earlier, who John says was a relative of Malchus.

* Holy Seven Sleepers of Ephesus: Maximilian, Jamblicus, Martinian, John, Dionysius, Exacustodian, and Antoninus ( 250 )

* Saints Processus and Martinian of Rome