In January 1895, Constantine caused political turmoil when he ordered army and gendarmerie forces to break up a street protest against tax policy.

In the November Uprising of 1830 led by rebelling army cadets, Grand Duke Constantine, Poland's de facto Viceroy, managed to escape, but Count Hauke was shot dead by the cadets on the street of Warsaw.

Concerned that Constantine was still a focus of dissent, the papal Chartularius, Gratiosus, and two other officials, gave permission for Constantine to be taken from the monastic prison early in the morning, blinded him, and left him lying in the street.

The town includes the St. Constantine ( Aghios Konstantinos ) church and a street is named for this church.

As a youth, Constantine VIII had been engaged to a daughter of Emperor Boris II of Bulgaria, but in the end he married a Byzantine aristocrat named Helena.

After having discharged the function of ambassador at the court of the Bulgarian Tsar Constantine, he retired for some years from public affairs, and made the instruction of youth his sole occupation.

Elder son of Claudius Constantine and brother of Julian, in his youth Constans was a monk.

Although Constantine had been exposed to Christianity by his mother Helena, there is no consensus among scholars as to whether he adopted his mother's Christianity in his youth or gradually over the course of his life, and he did not receive baptism until shortly before his death.

It stands in the middle of what was once the Forum of Constantine, who brought it from Rome.

Schweitzer concludes that the 1st century theology, originating in the lifetimes of those who first followed Jesus, is both incompatible with, and far removed from, those beliefs later made official by the Roman Emperor Constantine in 325 CE.

Constantine I ( emperor ) | Constantine burning Arian books, illustration from a compendium of canon law, ca.

Eusebius and Theognis remained in the Emperor's favour, and when Constantine, who had been a catechumen much of his adult life, accepted baptism on his deathbed, it was from Eusebius of Nicomedia.

The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine, Routledge, 2001

Alexios became estranged from Maria, who was stripped of her imperial title and retired to a monastery, and Constantine Doukas was deprived of his status as co-emperor.

Soon afterwards he had the Empress Maria imprisoned and then killed ( forcing a signature from the child Emperor Alexius to put his mother to death ), by Pterygeonites and the hetaireiarches Constantine Tripsychos.

Nicaea was convoked by Constantine I in May – August 325 to address the Arian position that Jesus of Nazareth is of a distinct substance from the Father.

At that meeting, Athanasius was accused of threatening to interfere with the supply of grains from Egypt, and, without any kind of formal trial, was exiled by Constantine to Trier in the Rhineland.

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.

These mostly range in date from the beginning of the Greek Bronze Age ( about 3200 BC ) to the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine I in the 4th century AD.

The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine, Routledge, 2001.

Nevertheless, Constantine identified the site of Byzantium as the right place: a place where an emperor could sit, readily defended, with easy access to the Danube or the Euphrates frontiers, his court supplied from the rich gardens and sophisticated workshops of Roman Asia, his treasuries filled by the wealthiest provinces of the Empire.

This church was to remain the burial place of the Emperors from Constantine himself until the 11th century.

" By contrast, the composition from the Byzantine point of view portrays Constantine Palaeologus as a brave leader who gave his life for the cause.

* Constantine I, Roman Emperor from 306 to 337, commonly known as Constantine the Great

Christendom ; Ecclesiastical and Political, from Constantine to the Reformation.

* Antipope Constantine II ( died 768 ), antipope from 767 – 768

Division of the Roman Empire among the Caesars appointed by Constantine I: from left to right, the territories of Constantine II ( emperor ) | Constantine II, Constans I, Dalmatius and Constantius II.

Antheil started studying the piano at the age of six, and in 1916 he traveled regularly to Philadelphia to study under Constantine von Sternberg, a former pupil of Franz Liszt.

: PG 150: Constantine Harmenopulus, Macarius Chrysocephalus Metropolite of Philadelphia, Joannes Caleca, Theophanes Archbishop of Nicæa, Nicolaus Cabasilas, Gregorius Palamas

Although Constantine embarked on a program of liberalization and re-instated Polish as an official language, Polish nationalists agitating for reform were not appeased.

* Janusz Gajos as Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich Romanov: Polish Grand Duke of Russian ancestry who frequently called upon Chopin.

Isabelle Yasmine Adjani was born in an immigrant neighborhood Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine, a suburb of Paris to an Algerian father from Constantine, Algeria.

From there she negotiated with the emperor for the safety of family members left in the capital, while protesting her sons ' innocence of hostile actions ; under the falsehood of making a vesperal visit to worship at the church, she deliberately excluded the grandson of Botaneiates and his loyal tutor, met with Alexios and Isaac and fled for the forum of Constantine.

This arrangement barely survived Constantine I ’ s death, with the sons of Constantine arranging the slaughter of most of the family of Constantine I at the hands of the army.

By the 9th century, the Gaels of Dál Riata ( Dalriada ) were subject to the kings of Fortriu of the family of Constantín mac Fergusa ( Constantine son of Fergus ).

A pair of them draw the chariot of Constantine the Great and his family in the Great Cameo of Constantine ( c314-16 ), which embodies wholly pagan imagery.

Distantly related to the imperial family of Constantine, he owed his progression from a less significant Levantine bishopric to the most important episcopal see to his influence at court, and the great power he wielded in the Church was derived from that source.

But we learn from Zonaras that at some " later " date his body was exhumed and reburied in or near the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople, where Constantine and the rest of his family lay.

For example Constantine started putting restrictions on the ancient Roman concept of patria potestas, the power held by the male head of a family over his descendents, by acknowledging that persons in potestate, the descendents, could have proprietary rights.

The family therefore controlled a significant portion, if not all, of the imperial financial administration during the reign of Constantine V ( r. 741 – 775 ).

Furthermore, when Platon left his office and entered the priesthood in 759, he was ordained by an abbot who, if he was not actively iconoclastic himself, at the very least offered no resistance to the iconoclastic policies of Constantine V. The family as a whole was most likely indifferent to the question of icons during this period.

Historians however suspect this account to be a genealogical fabrication intended to link Constantine I's family to that of a well-respected emperor.

Until 1938 Canaris believed that his family was related to the Greek admiral, freedom fighter and politician Constantine Kanaris, which influenced his decision to join the navy.

To secure his family on the throne, Basil I raised his eldest son Constantine ( in 869 ) and his second son Leo ( in 870 ) to the position of co-emperor.

Having lived long under constant threat of deposition-or worse-by the Lekapenoi family, Constantine VII was extremely resentful of them.

Romanos Diogenes was the son of Constantine Diogenes and a member of a prominent and powerful Cappadocian family, connected by birth to most of the great aristocratic nobles in Asia Minor.

Modern historians suspect this maternal connection to be a genealogical fabrication created by his son Constantine I, and that his family were of humble origins.

The story also features Charles Constantine ( a member of the same infamous family as John Constantine ), a World War I veteran who has repeatedly struggled with his inability to kill.

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.

Their leaders were named Donnchadh ( Duncan ), Mael-Coluim ( Malcolm ), and Causantin ( Constantine ), names shared by the royal family.

The ominous verse which has Constantine fall with his people, might allude to the end of his family.

She appears in the Eagle Cameo portraying Constantine's family, probably commemorating the birth of Constantine's son Constantine II in the summer of 316.