Diocletian

Family: Roman Empire · Role: emperor · First appears: Book I · Chap. VI

Life events

• Diocletian became emperor and created Maximian his colleague in the empire.(Book I · Chap. VI)
  • With: Maximian
  • “Diocletian, the thirty-third from Augustus, and chosen emperor by the army, reigned twenty years, and created Maximian, surnamed Herculius, his colleague in the empire.”
• Diocletian and Maximian ordered churches destroyed and Christians persecuted and killed.(Book I · Chap. VI)
  • With: Maximian
  • “Meanwhile, Diocletian in the east, and Maximian Herculius in the west, commanded the churches to be destroyed, and the Christians to be persecuted and slain.”

Book I · Chap. VI

• with Maximian (They were colleagues in the empire.) “Diocletian, the thirty-third from Augustus, and chosen emperor by the army, reigned twenty years, and created Maximian, surnamed Herculius, his colleague in the empire.”
• liege: Maximian (Diocletian appointed Maximian as his imperial colleague.) “Diocletian, the thirty-third from Augustus, and chosen emperor by the army, reigned twenty years, and created Maximian, surnamed Herculius, his colleague in the empire.”

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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.