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However, this situation changed drastically when Alexios ' first son John II Komnenos was born in 1087: Anna's engagement to Constantine was dissolved, and she was moved to the main Palace to live with her mother and grandmother.
Geoffrey also names him as one of three sons of Constantine III, along with Constans II and Uther Pendragon.
He continued to lead the conflict against the Arians for the rest of his life and was engaged in theological and political struggles against the Emperors Constantine the Great and Constantius II and powerful and influential Arian churchmen, led by Eusebius of Nicomedia and others.
As a result of rises and falls in Arianism's influence after the First Council of Nicaea, Emperor Constantine I banished him from Alexandria to Trier in the Rhineland, but he was restored after the death of Constantine I by the emperor's son Constantine II.
A first wall was erected by Constantine I, and the city was surrounded by a double wall lying about 2 km to the west of the first wall, begun during the 5th century by Theodosius II.
Constantine and Scotland
Constantine, son of Áed ( Medieval Gaelic: Constantín mac Áeda ; Modern Gaelic: Còiseam mac Aoidh, known in most modern regnal lists as Constantine II ; before 879 – 952 ) was an early King of Scotland, known then by the Gaelic name Alba.
* 927 – Æthelstan, King of England, secures a pledge from Constantine II of Scotland that the latter will not ally with Viking kings, beginning the process of unifying Great Britain.
Gothfrith was expelled and at Eamont, near Penrith, on 12 July 927, Ealdred, King Constantine of Scotland and Owain of Strathclyde accepted Æthelstan's overlordship.
While Constantine III of Scotland ( reigned 995-997 ) did manage to rise to the throne, he was the last known descendant of Áed.
Set in 997, the issues depict Malcolm and his allies, Malcolm III and Findláech of Moray, successfully deposing and killing Constantine III of Scotland.
His royal ancestors included Áed himself, Constantine II of Scotland ( reigned 900-943 ), Indulf ( reigned 954-962 ), and Cuilén ( reigned 967-971 ).
The Annals of Tigernach report that Constantine was killed in a battle between the Scots in 997: " A battle between the Scots, in which fell Constantine son of Culannan, king of Scotland, and many others.
The stanzas of The Prophecy of Berchán covering Constantine III give him a mostly negative assessment: " A king will take sovereignity, who will not be king ; after him, Scotland will be nothing.
He was the son of Constantine II ( Causantín mac Áeda ); his mother may have been a daughter of Earl Eadulf I of Bernicia, who was an exile in Scotland.
In 902 the Vikings were expelled from Dublin for up to a dozen years, and a year later Ímar, the " grandson of Ímar " was killed in battle with the forces of Constantine II in mainland Scotland.
Arthur's successor is appointed ( Constantine, son of King Carados of Scotland ), and the realm that Arthur created is significantly changed.
The historical Constantine of Dumnonia may have influenced later traditions, known in Southwestern Britain as well as in Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, about a Saint Constantine who is usually said to have been a king who gave up his crown to become a monk.
II and Scotland
Actaeon Surprising Diana ( Artemis ) in the bath, Titian, 1556-59, for Philip II of Spain | Philip II ( National Gallery of Scotland ).
The act was later extended to Scotland, as a result of the Treaty of Union ( Article II ), enacted in the Acts of Union 1707 before it was ever needed.
Research carried out in the U. K. during World War II left Gruinard Island in Scotland contaminated with anthrax for the next 48 years.
Such doctrines are, in the English-speaking world, largely associated with the House of Tudor and the early House of Stuart in Britain and the theology of the Caroline divines, who held their tenure at the pleasure of James I of England ( VI of Scotland ), Charles I and Charles II.
* Franz, Duke of Bavaria ( born 1933 ), called " Francis II " by supporters of the Jacobite claim to the thrones of England, Scotland, Ireland and France.
* 1649 – The claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland is declared King of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Scotland.
* 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England ( James VII of Scotland and James II of Ireland ) by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau ( William of Orange ).
When Charles died in 1685 and his brother, a Roman Catholic, succeeded him as James VII of Scotland ( and II of England ), matters came to a head.
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