Minervina
the mother of CRISPUS CAESAR, is usually termed by historians the first wife of Constantine the Great. However, Victor (Epit. 41) and Zosimus (2.20), both of whom mention her name, state expressly that she was his concubine, and their account is confirmed by Zonaras (13.2). To this direct testimony we can oppose nothing, except the improbability that Constantine should have marked out an illegitimate son as his successor. (Tillemont, Hist. des Empereurs, vol. iv. art. iv. p. 84, and Notes sur Constantin, note v.).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.