Maxentius
Roman usurper (r. 306-312) · Italy · Politicians · Lived 278 to 312 · aged 34
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Something wrong?He ruled Rome itself for six years but died unrecognized by the empire's other emperors - drowned in the Tiber during flight from Constantine at the Milvian Bridge in 312.
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![Possible portrait of a juvenile Maxentius, Musée Saint-Raymond[3]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/%28Toulouse%29_T%C3%AAte_juv%C3%A9nile_de_Maxence_-_Mus%C3%A9e_Saint-Raymond.jpg/1280px-%28Toulouse%29_T%C3%AAte_juv%C3%A9nile_de_Maxence_-_Mus%C3%A9e_Saint-Raymond.jpg)
Possible portrait of a juvenile Maxentius, Musée Saint-Raymond[3]
The Basilica of Maxentius in the Roman Forum. Completed by his enemy Constantine, it was one of the most impressive edifices of ancient times.
Bronze follis struck by Maxentius in Rome 308 - 310 AD. This coin is commemorating the reconstruction of the temple of Roma following the fire in 307 AD. Roma holding globe and sceptre seated within hexastyle temple with shield on the ground is depicted on the reverse.
Maxentius as Augustus on a follis. Legend: IMPerator Caesar MAXENTIVS Pius Felix AVGustus / AETERNITAS AUGusti Nostri, the Dioscuri standing facing each other, their horses between.- M OST Q (Mint Ostia, officina P).
Follis of Emperor Alexander struck in Carthage.
Circus of Maxentius in ancient times![Possible portrait in the Museo Ostiense, a recarved Antonine statue.[9]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Statua_di_Massenzio_come_Pontefice_Massimo%2C_dalla_sede_del_Collegio_degli_Augustali%2C_Museo_di_Ostia.png/500px-Statua_di_Massenzio_come_Pontefice_Massimo%2C_dalla_sede_del_Collegio_degli_Augustali%2C_Museo_di_Ostia.png)
Possible portrait in the Museo Ostiense, a recarved Antonine statue.[9]Family
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Maxentius was the son of former Emperor Maximian and son-in-law of Galerius, positioned by blood near the center of Roman power around 283. He took the throne in 306 and controlled Italy, North Africa, and the Senate's backing, yet his fellow emperors refused him legitimacy. The latter years narrowed to civil war: he allied with Maximinus against Licinius and Constantine, the last of whom met him at the Milvian Bridge on 28 October 312. His army broke, and Maxentius purportedly drowned in the Tiber in the rout. Before that end he had tried to remake Rome - the Temple of the Divine Romulus for his dead son, the Basilica of Maxentius, a villa, a circus - the last emperor to live permanently in the ancient capital and spend its stone on his own name.
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