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Valeria Galeria

Valeria Galeria (c.280-314): name of a Roman empress, wife of Galerius.

Life

c.280 Born as daughter of Diocletian and Prisca (?)
June 293: Married to Galerius
- She adopts Candidianus, Galerius' son from an earlier marriage
- Candidianus marries to a daughter of Maximinus Daia
November 309: Proclaimed Augusta
May 311: Death of Galerius
Valeria, trying to escape Licinius, flees to Maximinus Daia
Maximinus Daia sends her into exile to Syria
Summer 313: Death of Maximinus Daia
End 314: After fifteen months, Galeria is rounded up by Licinius' soldiers and killed