Constantius the Second - The Massacre of Princes

Of the three sons, constantius will prove to be the most cunning, decisive and ruthless of them all. Dropping everything, he rushed back to constantinople and took it upon himself to immediately oversee the funeral and burial of the dead emperor. Scholars have surmised that constantine was attempting to set up a sort of neutral zone around the capital so that no one of his sons would be able to claim it as their own. But boy, was ever not what happened at all.