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* Constantine III ( usurper ) ( died 411 ), known as Constantine II of Britain in British legend
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First married to Michael VII Doukas and secondly to Nikephoros III Botaneiates, she was preoccupied with the future of her son by Michael VII, Constantine Doukas.
Geoffrey also names him as one of three sons of Constantine III, along with Constans II and Uther Pendragon.
The last of Constantine's certain descendants to be king in Alba was a great-grandson, Constantine III ( Constantín mac Cuiléin ).
The British provinces were isolated, lacking support from the Empire, and the soldiers supported the revolts of Marcus ( 406 – 407 ), Gratian ( 407 ), and Constantine III.
The army rebelled and, after elevating two disappointing usurpers, chose a soldier, Constantine III, to become emperor in 407.
Example of the miliaresion silver coins, first struck by Leo III to commemorate the coronation of his son, Constantine V, as co-emperor in 720.
Ivan III married Sophia Palaiologina, the niece of the last Byzantine emperor Constantine XI, and made the Byzantine double-headed eagle his own, and eventually Russian, coat-of-arms.
After it had been rebuilt near Amesbury, Geoffrey further narrates how first Ambrosius Aurelianus, then Uther Pendragon, and finally Constantine III, were buried inside the " Giants ' Ring of Stonehenge ".
* June – The army of Peter III of Aragon lands in North Africa in Collo to support the rebellious governor of Constantine, Ibn Wazir.
Constantine and usurper
The resulting conflict left Constantine II dead and Constans as ruler of the west until he was overthrown and assassinated in 350 by the usurper Magnentius.
* October 28 – Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine I defeats usurper Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge and becomes the only Roman Emperor in the West.
* The Roman usurper Constantine III established his headquarters at Arles ( Southern Gaul ) and elevates his eldest son, Constans, to the rank of Caesar.
* April – Roman usurper Maxentius banishes his father, Maximian, who flees to the court of Constantine the Great in Augusta Treverorum ( modern Trier ).
When Licinius and Constantine began to make common cause with one another, Maximinus entered into a secret alliance with the usurper Caesar Maxentius, who controlled Italy.
Vitalian supported Constans ' son Constantine IV against the usurper Mezezius and thus helped him attain the throne.
Uther's family is based on some historical figures ; Constantine on the historical usurper Constantine III, a claimant to the Roman throne from 407 – 411, and Constans on his son.
His father was Procopius, magister militum per Orientem from 422 to 424, who was descended from the Procopius who had been a nephew of Emperor Constantine I and a usurper against the Eastern Emperor Valens ( 365 – 366 ).
In 411 he defeated Gerontius, the general of usurper Maximus, and Constantine III, another usurper, in Arles.
Constantine was forced to surrender to Constantius when his troops on the Rhine left him for another usurper, Jovinus.
Following the defeat of the usurper known with the name of Constantine III, Jovinus was proclaimed emperor at Mainz in 411, a puppet supported by Gundahar, king of the Burgundians, and Goar, king of the Alans.
After the fall of Arbogastes, his son Arigius succeeded in establishing a hereditary countship at Trier and after the fall of the usurper Constantine III some Franks supported the usurper Jovinus ( 411 ).
No further information is known after this period and scholars believe the XX legion was still stationed in Britain when the usurper Constantine III pulled the bulk of the military forces from there in the year 407 for his doomed campaign on the continent.
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