Constantine's Proposal to Make a Caesar

A d crispus stood as the son of constantine and a woman named minervina. The presumption here is that constantine was looking to overwhelm any claim to power the baby lycinius might put forward some day by packing a revived tetrarchy with his own people. Bassianus, you see, was not just a respected senator, he was also constantine's brother in law. And if you count lycinius, who was himself constantine's father-in-law, then it would be composed of constantine's extended family. But the eastern augustus was not buying what constantine was selling.