Galla was the first known wife of Julius Constantius, a member of the Constantinian dynasty.
Galla | |
Death Date: | before 332 |
Spouse: | Julius Constantius |
Issue: | Unnamed son Unnamed daughter Gallus |
Dynasty: | Constantinian |
Galla was the sister of the consul Neratius Cerealis and of the praetorian prefect Vulcacius Rufinus.[1]
She married Julius Constantius, son of Constantius Chlorus and half-brother of Emperor Constantine I. They had three children: a son, who died with his father in the purges of 337,[2] a daughter, who married her cousin Constantius II, and finally Constantius Gallus, later Caesar of the East, born around 325.[3] It has been proposed that Galla and Julius had another daughter, who may have been the mother of the empress Justina.[4]
Galla died before her husband, as Gallus was then entrusted to the care of Eusebius, bishop of Nicomedia.[5]