Editing Fausta (section)

{{Short description|Roman empress from 307 to 326}}
{{for-multi|the opera|Fausta (opera)|the Catholic saint|Saint Fausta}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name         = Fausta
| title       = [[Augusta (honorific)|Augusta]]
| image        = P1070865 Louvre tête de Fausta Ma4881 rwk.JPG
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| alt          = Female head statue
| caption      = Possible portrait of Fausta<!-- ", most probably before her marriage to Constantine" – not in source. -->, [[Louvre]]<ref>[http://laststatues.classics.ox.ac.uk/database/detail.php?record=LSA-573 http://laststatues.classics.ox.ac.uk, LSA-573 (J. Lenaghan)]</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=statue |date=300–325 |url=https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010278397 |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=Musée du Louvre Collections database}}</ref>
| succession   = [[List of Roman empresses|Roman empress]]
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| reign  = 307–326
| birth_date   = 
| birth_place  = [[Rome]], [[Italy]]
| death_date   = 326
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| burial_place = 
| spouse       = [[Constantine I]]
| issue        = {{unbulleted list|[[Constantina]]|[[Constantine II (emperor)|Constantine II]]|[[Constantius II]]|[[Constans]]|[[Helena (wife of Julian)|Helena]]}}
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| full name    = Flavia Maxima Fausta{{sfn|Woods|1998|p=70}}
| dynasty      = [[Constantinian dynasty|Constantinian]]
| father       = [[Maximian]]
| mother       = [[Eutropia]]
| religion     = 
}}

'''Flavia Maxima Fausta ''Augusta'''''{{Efn|She received the honorific ''[[Augusta (honorific)|Augusta]]'' in 324 AD.}} (died 326 AD) was a Roman empress. She was the daughter of [[Maximian]] and wife of [[Constantine the Great]], who had her executed and [[damnatio memoriae|excluded from all official accounts]] for unknown reasons. Historians [[Zosimus (historian)|Zosimus]] and [[Zonaras]] reported that she was executed for [[adultery]] with her stepson, [[Crispus]].