Flavio NORTH VALERY

Flavius North Valery - Roman emperor in 306-307 years. + 307
North was born in Illyricum, and was considered a favorite of Emperor Galerius. After the abdication of Diocletian in 305 g. He received the title of Caesar (Victor: "O Caesar '; 40). In 306, when he died, Constantius, Galerius raised in North Augusta, and made her co-regent. He intended to highlight his western provinces, but the news came that the Praetorians proclaimed emperor in Rome of Maxentius, son of Maximian Hercule. Frustrated by their willfulness, Galerius sent north to suppress the rebellion and gave him the legions who had fought primarily under the authority of Maximian. As soon as the new emperor arrived in Italy, his soldiers rebelled against him and sided with the enemy. North had no choice, as a retreat from Rome. He shut himself up in Ravenna, and Maximilian began the siege. Seeing that the few remaining soldiers with him were ready to change it, the North voluntarily abdicated in favor of Maximian, and sent him a purple robe, and then he gave himself up in his hands. But his conciliatory position he reached only the fact that he was allowed to choose at will any kind of death. The prisoner was taken to