This put an end to Constantine's attempt to expand his Despotate.

The white captain of the Trinidad team, Major Bertie Harragin, recognised the younger Constantine's promise, and selected him to play in Trinidad's Inter-Colonial Tournament match against British Guiana.

Constantine's main objective on the 1928 tour was to secure a contract to play cricket professionally in England.

This season ended Constantine's career in professional league cricket, although during the war he returned to play for Nelson as an amateur.

Constantine's rule, however, validated Diocletian's achievements and the autocratic principle he represented: the borders remained secure, in spite of Constantine's large expenditure of forces during his civil wars ; the bureaucratic transformation of Roman government was completed ; and Constantine took Diocletian's court ceremonies and made them even more extravagant.

As his forces broadly encircled the enemy cavalry, Constantine's own cavalry charged at the sides of the Maxentian cataphracts, beating them with iron-tipped clubs.

" But this indicates the limits to Constantine's ( and Kenneth's ) area of authority, and informs us that Cumbria / Strathclyde lay beyond them.

Obviously upset that Constantine had neglected them in his efforts to establish his own empire and had failed to defend them against the assaults they had hoped he would prevent, the Roman inhabitants of Britain and Armorica rebelled against Constantine's authority and expelled his officials.

The famous poem about the battle in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the deaths of five kings and seven earls among Athelstan's enemies, along with ( or among them ) Constantine's son:

There's a historical anecdote that soldiers in Saint Petersburg were said to chant " Constantine and Constitution ", but when questioned, many of them professed to believe that " Constitution " ( Russian konstitutsiya ) was Constantine's wife.

Constantine's extravagant punishment of the surviving rebels was to parade them in the Hippodrome, seated backwards on donkeys.

In 323 he was the bearer and possibly the writer of Constantine's letter to Bishop Alexander of Alexandria and Arius his deacon, bidding them cease disturbing the peace of the church ; and, on the failure of the negotiations in Egypt, it was doubtless with the active concurrence of Hosius that the Council of Nicaea was convened in 325.

Constantine's Shaper family has been disgraced by Constantine's defeat, and Lindsay manages to convert them to his cause, even Constantine's " daughter " Vera ( created from DNA taken from Vera Kelland decades before ).

Constantine's wartime experiences caused him to increase his involvement in the League of Coloured Peoples, sometimes referring cases to them.

This development is likely related to Constantine's giving his four sons specific territories to administer, envisioning a partition of imperial authority among them following his death.

After Constantine's death in 337, his three surviving sons partitioned the Empire between them.

Gildas is clear that Constantine's sins were manifold even before this, as he had committed " many adulteries " after casting off his lawfully wedded wife.

Constantine's church was built as two connected churches over the two different holy sites, including a great basilica ( the Martyrium visited by Egeria in the 380s ), an enclosed colonnaded atrium ( the Triportico ) with the traditional site of Golgotha in one corner, and a rotunda, called the Anastasis (" Resurrection "), which contained the remains of a rock-cut room that Helena and Macarius identified as the burial site of Jesus.

Under the soldier one reads SIRM indicating the coin was minted in Sirmium, the home of Constantine's family.

By 312, however, Constantine and Maxentius were engaged in open hostility with one another, although they were brothers-in ‑ law through Constantine's marriage to Fausta, sister of Maxentius.

Constantine's infantry then advanced, most of Maxentius's troops fought well but they began to be pushed back toward the Tiber ; Maxentius decided to retreat and make another stand at Rome itself ; but there was only one escape route, via the bridge.

He can easily regrow damaged or severed body parts, and can even transport himself across the globe by leaving his current form, transferring his consciousness to a new form grown from whatever vegetable matter is present in the location he wishes to reach ( he even grew himself a form out of John Constantine's meager tobacco supply on one occasion ).

Selected as one of the last popes of the Byzantine Papacy, the defining moment of Constantine's pontificate was his 710 / 711 visit to Constantinople where he compromised with Justinian II on the Trullan canons of the Quinisext Council.

The new emperor Philippikos Bardanes was an adherent of Monothelitism, rejected the arrangements of the Third Council of Constantinople, and demanded Constantine's support of the view that Christ had only one will.

Constantine's response to this tightening circle of enemies was a final desperate gamble: he marched on Italy with the remaining troops left to him, encouraged by the entreaties of one Allobich who wanted to replace Honorius with a more capable ruler.

He also portrays the Emperor Constantine's actions as having had dealt a harsh blow, but not necessarily a mortal one, to Pelagius ' teaching that humans are free and sin is not inherent in us.

Constantine's youth had been a sad one for his unpleasant appearance, his taciturn nature and his relegation at the third level of succession behind Christopher Lekapenos, the eldest son of Romanos I Lekapenos.

Constantine's family name Monomachos (" one who fights alone ") was inherited by his Kievan grandson, Vladimir II Monomakh.

The capsule contained all of Constantine's childhood innocence, placed there in one of his first acts of magic to rid himself of the perceived weakness.

On the show Big Impression, impressionist Ronni Ancona took to spoofing Constantine's presenting techniques on What Not to Wear, just one of the shows on which Constantine's character has been spoofed.

Helena supposedly cast one nail into the sea to calm a storm, while another was incorporated into Constantine's helmet, another fitted to the head of a statue of the Emperor, and a fourth melted down and molded into a bit for Constantine's horse.

Hetoum and Isabella's marriage in 1226 had been a forced one by Hetoum's father Constantine of Baberon, who had arranged for Queen Isabella's first husband to be murdered so as to put Constantine's own son Hetoum in place as a co-ruler with Isabella.

SSADM is one particular implementation and builds on the work of different schools of structured analysis and development methods, such as Peter Checkland's soft systems methodology, Larry Constantine's structured design, Edward Yourdon's Yourdon Structured Method, Michael A. Jackson's Jackson Structured Programming, and Tom DeMarco's structured analysis.

Approximately four times larger than today's cathedral, this church was one of Constantine's great imperial foundations, ranking with other major churches at Rome, Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem.

Helena's saintliness does not allow her to save her son from an imperial destiny she fears and disapproves of ( at one point she fantasises about him becoming a provincial colonel ); nor is she able to save her innocent grandson Crispus from being murdered on Constantine's orders in a palace struggle.

He entered a personal rivalry with Grigore II Ghica ; Ioan Neculce noted " Constantin-Voivode went lengths to replace Grigorie-Voivode's rule in Wallachia (...)", and subsequently "(...) as soon as they were seated on their thrones one of Constantine's rules in Wallachia, they began to quarrell and to report each other to the Porte without concealment ".

At the time of Constantine's death in January 1055, the emperor had another mistress, a certain " Alan princess ", probably Irene, daughter of the Georgian Bagratid prince Demetrius.

It can be surmised due in part to these reforms, that the Roman Empire continued to live on for another 140 years after the end of Constantine's reign, in the face of numerous migrations and invasions from northern and eastern, nomadic peoples such as the Huns, Goths, Vandals, Ostrogoths, Sarmatians, Alans, Burgundians, Saxons and Franks, which continually weakened the Empire until its eventual collapse in 476 AD.

King Æthelstan was successful in securing Constantine's submission in 927 and 934, but the two again fought when Constantine, allied with the Strathclyde Britons and the Viking king of Dublin, invaded Æthelstan's kingdom in 937, only to be defeated at the great battle of Brunanburh.

Constantine's reign of 43 years, exceeded in Scotland only by that of King William the Lion before the Union of the Crowns in 1603, is believed to have played a defining part in the gaelicisation of Pictland, in which his patronage of the Irish Céli Dé monastic reformers was a significant factor.

This is the first surviving use of the word mormaer ; other than the knowledge that Constantine's kingdom had its own bishop or bishops and royal villas, this is the only hint to the institutions of the kingdom.

For Constantine's last years as king there is only the meagre record of the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba.

A letter Eusebius is supposed to have written to Constantine's daughter Constanza, refusing to fulfill her request for images of Christ, was quoted in the decrees ( now lost ) of the Iconoclast Council of Hieria in 754, and later quoted in part in the rebuttal of the Hieria decrees in the Second Council of Nicaea of 787, now the only source from which some of the text is known.

All Julian could do was sit it out in Naissus, the city of Constantine's birth, waiting for news and writing letters to various cities in Greece justifying his actions ( of which only the letter to the Athenians has survived in its entirety ).

Constantine's predecessor Pope Sisinnius, a Syrian, was pope for only twenty days.

As was customary, the vanquished enemy is not mentioned by name, but only referred to as " the tyrant ", drawing on the notion of the rightful killing of a tyrannical ruler ; together with the image of the " just war ", it serves as justification of Constantine's civil war against his co-emperor Maxentius.

The death of Galerius in May 311 and Constantine's spectacular victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge on October 28, 312, left only three Emperors: in the East, Maximinus Daia and Licinius ; in the West, Constantine.

The rest of Constantine's 1928 tour was generally successful ; only in the three Test matches, the first played by the West Indies, was he less effective.

This may sound similar to Constantine's adaptation of Jesus as the physical embodiment of the Pagan Sol Invictus in Christianity but it would be a mistake of similarity of appearance only.