Aurelius Ambrosius, better known in English as Saint Ambrose ( c. 330 – 4 April 397 ), was an archbishop of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century.

His father was Aurelius Ambrosius, the praetorian prefect of Gaul ; his mother was a woman of intellect and piety.

Ambrosius Aurelianus, ; called Aurelius Ambrosius in the Historia Regum Britanniae and elsewhere, was a war leader of the Romano-British who won an important battle against the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century, according to Gildas.

Ambrosius Aurelianus appears in later pseudo-chronicle tradition beginning with Geoffrey's Historiae Regum Britanniae with the slightly garbled name Aurelius Ambrosius, now presented as son of a King Constantine.

Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave follows Geoffrey of Monmouth in calling him Aurelius Ambrosius and portrays him as the father of Merlin, the elder brother of Uther ( hence uncle of Arthur ), an initiate of Mithras, and generally admired by everyone except the Saxons.

Hengist continues that Vortigern's subjects threaten Vortigern and say that they will bring over Aurelius Ambrosius from Armorica to depose Vortigern and make Aurelius king.

In chapter III, Hengist is struck with terror after hearing that Aurelius Ambrosius had rallied the Britons and burned Vortigern alive in a tower, " for he dreaded the valour of Aurelius.

Geoffrey's composite Merlin is based primarily on Myrddin Wyllt, also called Merlinus Caledonensis, and Aurelius Ambrosius, a mostly fictionalised version of the historical war leader Ambrosius Aurelianus.

When he included the prophet in his next work, Historia Regum Britanniae, he supplemented the characterisation by attributing to him stories about Aurelius Ambrosius, taken from Nennius ' Historia Brittonum.

He keeps this new figure separate from Aurelius Ambrosius, and to disguise his changing of Nennius, he simply states that Ambrosius was another name for Merlin.

In the first, Merlin creates Stonehenge as a burial place for Aurelius Ambrosius.

The fifth-century king Aurelius Ambrosius wished to erect a memorial to 3, 000 nobles slain in battle against the Saxons and buried at Salisbury, and at Merlin's advice chose Stonehenge.

* April 4 – Aurelius Ambrosius, bishop of Milan

Some modern scholars suggest that Gildas ' text implies that Aurelius Ambrosius was the Briton leader at Badon.

He excoriates his fellow Britons for their sins, while at the same time lauding heroes such as Aurelius Ambrosius, whom he is the first to describe as a leader of the resistance to the Saxons.

Uther and his other brother Aurelius Ambrosius, still children, flee to Brittany.

Aurelius Ambrosius is Ambrosius Aurelianus, mentioned by Gildas, though his connection to Constantine and Constans is unrecorded.

During the religious peace which followed the persecution of Marcus Aurelius, the new bishop divided his activities between the duties of a pastor and of a missionary ( as to which we have but brief data, late and not very certain ).

* Saint Aurelius, bishop of Carthage ( approximate date )

* Aurelius Ambrose, bishop of Milan ( approximate date )

* Saint Ambrose ( Aurelius Ambrosius ), bishop of Milan

* On 1 May 418 a great synod ( St Augustine calls it A Council of Africa ), which assembled under the presidency of Aurelius, bishop of Carthage, to take action concerning the errors of Caelestius, a disciple of Pelagius, denounced the Pelagian doctrines of human nature, original sin, grace, and perfectibility ; and it fully approved the contrary views of Augustine.

Whichever of these stories may be true, the reality is that Gallienus was killed in the summer of 268, and to succeed him, chosen by the army outside of Milan, was Marcus Aurelius Claudius.

* Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, Roman consul and pagan ( approximate date )

* Aurelius Victor, historian and politician ( approximate date )

Alexandria, whose defense was organized under Diocletian's former corrector Aurelius Achilleus, held out until a later date, probably March 298.

The Dialogue is a later work than the First Apology ; the date of composition of the latter, from the fact that it was addressed to Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, and Lucius Verus his adopted sons, must fall between 147 and 161.

The precise date of his birth, as of his death, is unknown ; but from the names of his teachers and companions, he must have lived under Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius.

The Embassy for the Christians, the date of which is fixed by internal evidence as late in 176 or 177, was a carefully written plea for justice to the Christians made by a philosopher, on philosophical grounds, to the Emperors Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus, whom he flatters as conquerors, " but above all, philosophers ".

The Hou Hanshu ( History of the Later Han Chinese dynasty ) recounted the first of several Roman embassies to China sent out by a Roman Emperor, probably Marcus Aurelius judging by the arrival date of 166 ( Antoninus Pius is another possibility, but he died in 161.

The exact date of his death is not known, but it was probably while Marcus Aurelius was still Emperor.

The date of his martyrdom is uncertain – some sources say that he was a victim of Nero, others of Marcus Aurelius.

* December 7 – The people of Milan astonish Ambrosius, governor of Aemilia-Liguria, by acclaiming him bishop.

Besides that, more reminds us of Vortigern ; the name of the bishop is Guitelin, a name similar to the Vitalinus mentioned in the ancestry of Vortigern, and to the Vitalinus who is said to have fought with an Ambrosius at the Battle of Guoloph ( Battle of Wallop ).

* Ambrosius Gudko, Russian bishop

The monastery and church were dedicated to St Ambrosius, in commemoration of the coronation of Charles as the king of Lombardy on 5 January of the same year in Milan Cathedral, where St Ambrosius was bishop in the 4th Century.

* Ambrosius dies at Milan after a 23-year reign in which he dominated the political life of the Roman Empire.

* Ambrosius refuses the request of empress Justina for a church in Milan, where she can worship according to her Arian belief.

Walafridus Strabo, who died Abbot of Reichenau in 849, and must therefore have been nearly, if not quite, contemporary with this incident, says nothing about it, but ( De Rebus Ecclesiasticis, xxii ), speaking of various forms of the Mass, says: " Ambrosius quoque Mediolanensis episcopus tam missæ quam cæterorum dispositionem officiorum suæ ecclesiæ et aliis Liguribus ordinavit, quæ et usque hodie in Mediolanensi tenentur ecclesia " ( Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, also arranged a ceremonial for the Mass and other offices for his own church and for other parts of Liguria, which is still observed in the Milanese Church ).

Specifically mentioned are the Benedictines at St. Ambrosius of Milan, the Augustinians from France at Na Karlově, the Servants of the Holy Virgin of the Meadow from Florence and the Slavic Benedictines from Croatia in the Emmaus Church.

By 1620, the approximate date of Ambrosius Bosschaert's painting ( illustration, below ), new garden varieties had been developed, such as the cream-colored crocus feathered with bronze at the base of the bouquet, similar to varieties still on the market.