FLAVIUS VALERIUS SEVERUS

'Flavius Valerius Severus' (died 16 September, 307) was a Western Roman Emperor (306).
He was a soldier from the Illyrian provinces before his associate Galerius requested that Maximian appoint him ''caesar'' of the Western Roman Empire in 305. He thus served as a junior partner to Constantius Chlorus, ''Augustus'' of the Western Roman Empire.
On the death of Constantius Chlorus in 306, Severus was promoted to ''augustus'' by Galerius himself, in opposition to the acclamation of Constantine by his own soldiers. When Maxentius, the son of the retired emperor Maximian, revolted at Rome, Galerius sent Severus to suppress the rebellion. Severus moved from his capital, Mediolanum, towards Rome, at the head of an army previously commanded by Maximian. Fearing the arrival of Severus, Maxentius offered to his father the co-rule of the Empire, allowing him to get back his title of ''augustus''; Maximian accepted, and when Severus arrived under the walls of Rome and besieged it, his men deserted him and passed under Maximian. Severus fled to Ravenna, in an impregnable position, and Maximian offered him safety, and Severus surrended, being imprisoned in Tres Tabernae, near Rome.
When Galerius himself invaded Italy in 307 to suppress both Maxentius and his father, Maxentius had Severus killed.

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★ DiMaio, Michael, "Severus II (306-307 A.D.)", ''De Imperatoribus Romanis''

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