According to Herodian, the Roman armies suffered a number of humiliating setbacks and defeats, while according to the Historia Augusta as well as Alexander's own dispatch to the Roman Senate, he gained great victories.

According to the Historia Augusta, the Roman emperor Hadrian issued a decree banning circumcision in the empire,

According to the Historia Augusta, he quoted from Virgil while doing so.

According to British legend ( see: Historia Brittonum ) the territory known later as Essex was ceded by the Britons to the Saxons following the infamous Brad y Cyllyll Hirion event which occurred ca.

According to the Historia Augusta, an unreliable source compiled long after the events it describes, a conspiracy was led by the commander of the guard Aurelius Heraclianus and one Marcianus.

" According to Historia Augusta:

According to the legendary Historia Regum Britanniae, of Geoffrey of Monmouth, London was founded by Brutus of Troy after he defeated the incumbent giants Gog and Magog and was known as, ( Latin for New Troy ), which, according to a pseudo-etymology, was corrupted to Trinovantum.

According to Paul the Deacon's 8th century work Historia Langobardorum, the Langobards migrated southward from Scandinavia led by Ibur and Aio, while Saxo Grammaticus records in his 12th-century work Gesta Danorum that this migration was prompted by Aggi and Ebbi.

According to the 4th century Historia Augusta, the emperor Commodus participated in its mysteries but it never became one of the state cults.

According to the Historia Augusta, a usually unreliable source, he was prosecuted for adultery during this time but the case was ultimately dismissed.

According to Nicephorus ( Historia eccl., 2, 40 ), Matthias first preached the Gospel in Judaea, then in Aethiopia ( made out to be a synonym for the region of Colchis, now in modern-day Georgia ) and was crucified in Colchis.

According to the Historia Regum Britanniae written by Geoffrey of Monmouth in around 1136, " the coast of Totnes " was where Brutus of Troy, the mythical founder of Britain, first came ashore on the island.

According to a later continuation of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica ( written anonymously after Bede's death ) the king was " treacherously murdered at night by his own bodyguards ", though the reason why is unrecorded.

According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's fictional Historia Regum Britanniae ( ca.

According to the Historia, at Guinnion, Arthur " carried the image of holy Mary ever virgin on his shoulders ", and put his enemy to flight.

According to Gregory of Tours ' Historia Francorum ( History of the Franks ), when Clotilde had their first child baptised, he died soon after.

According to Historia Norwegiæ, it would have been his wife ’ s native country and hence a power base where he might have expected to muster some support, but the text makes no such claims.

According to the Historia Augusta he abstained from destroying the city after having a vision of Apollonius admonishing him to spare the innocent citizens.

According to Historia Augusta, Numerian was a man of considerable literary attainments, remarkably amiable and known as a great orator and poet.

According to the Latin Historia Norwegiæ, Halvdan was a king " in montanis " ( in the mountains ), which is usually equivalent to Oppland in the Old Norse.

According to Geoffrey in the Historia and much subsequent literature which he inspired, Avalon is the place where King Arthur is taken after fighting Mordred at the Battle of Camlann to recover from his wounds.

According to the notoriously unreliable Historia Augusta, his mother was a Roman woman called Fabia Orestilla, born circa 165, who the Augustan History claims was a descendant of Roman Emperors Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius through her father Fulvus Antoninus.

According to the Historia Augusta, his body was never recovered.

According to Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, a history of the English church, there were seven early Anglo-Saxon rulers who held imperium, or overlordship, over the other kingdoms.

According to the notoriously unreliable Historia Augusta, his cognomen of " Niger " was given due to the fact that his neck was black.

According to the Historia Brittonum, Penda's ally Cadafael ap Cynfeddw of Gwynedd ( thereafter remembered as " Cadomedd " (=" battle-shirker ") abandoned him, along with his army, and Bede says that Aethelwald of Deira withdrew from the battle to await the outcome from a place of safety.

According to the Historia Brittonum, Weothulgeot was father of Weaga who was father of Whitlæg.

According to Historia Brittonum the site of the seventh battle of the mythical Arthur was a forest in what is now Scotland, called Coit Celidon in early Welsh.

According to the Annales Cracovienses Compilati, this event took place in 1136 ; since it can be assumed that the Polish princess was younger than her betrothed, and also are known the birth dates of the youngest children of Bolesław III ( Agnes in 1137 and Casimir in 1138 ), Judith in consequence could have been born between 1130 and 1135.

* According to the Annales Bertiniani, Nominoe makes war on the Vikings.

* According to the Annales Bertiniani, Nominoe, king of Brittany, makes war on the Vikings.

* According to the Annales Cambriae, the Anglo-Saxons convert to Christianity after the Second Battle of Badon.

According to the Annales Cambriae, in AD 665 there was a second battle at Badon.

According to the dates in the Annales Cambriae, Gildas would have been a contemporary of King Arthur.

According to the medieval Annales Compostellani Peter was in bellis expertus et audax in principio (" expert in war and daring in initiative "), and one modern historian has remarked that " his grasp of the possibilities inherent in the age seems to have been faultless.

According to Braudel, prior to the Annales approach, the writing of history was focused on the courte durée ( short span ), or on histoire événementielle ( a history of events ).

According to the Tacitus's Annales, in 50 ' a great multitude ' of Lugians allied with Romans took part in the fall of the Vannius ' state of the Quadi, located in present Moravia – Slovakia.

According to the Annales Londonienses chronicle, four shoemakers brought the corpse back to Warwick, but he refused to accept it, and ordered them to take it back to where they found it.

According to the Annales Fuldenses, he appeared at the 895 Reichstag in Regensburg and paid homage to the East Frankish king Arnulf of Carinthia.

According to the Annales Bertiniani, at Louviers in February 856 Erispoe's daughter ( unnamed in the sources ) was betrothed to Charles's young son, Louis the Stammerer, who was granted the ducatus Cenomannicus as subking of Neustria with Le Mans as his capital.

According to the Annales Cambriae Deiniol died in 584 and was buried on Bardsey Island.

According to the Annales Iuvavenses, in 920, Baiuarii sponte se reddiderunt Arnolfo duci et regnare ei fecerunt in regno teutonicorum: the Bavarians, with some other East Franks, elected Arnulf king in opposition to Henry ( actually in 919 ).

According to the Gesta Berengarii Imperatoris, the two kings met at Pavia in October and November and agreed to divide the kingdom, Berengar receiving the eastern half between the Adda and the Po, " as if by hereditary right " according to the Annales Fuldenses.

According to Tacitus ( Annales xi.

According to the Annals of St. Bertin ( Annales Bertiniani ) for the year 839, Louis the Pious, the Frankish emperor, came to the conclusion that the people called Rhos ( qui se, id est gentem suum, Rhos vocari dicebant ) belong to the gens of Swedes ( eos gentis esse Sueonum ).