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For what reason did Constantine suddenly order the execution of his beloved son considering surviving sources are unanimous in declaring him a loving trusting and protective father to his first son?
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Constantine's eldest son, Crispus, was executed in AD 326 on suspicion of attempted rape and treason.
One account of the events tells of Constantine's wife Fausta falling in love with Crispus, who was her stepson, and made an accusation of him committing adultery only once she had been rejected by him, or because she simply wanted Crispus out of the way, in order to let her sons succeed to the throne unhindered. Then again, Constantine had only a month ago passed a strict law against adultery and might have felt obliged to act. And so Crispus was executed at Pola in Istria.
Though after this execution Constantine's mother Helena convinced the emperor of Crispus' innocence and that Fausta's accusation had been false. Escaping the vengeance of her husband, Fausta killed herself at Treviri.
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