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Hence, after Constantine's death in 337, open dispute resumed again.
In this period the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba reports the death of Cormac mac Cuilennáin, king of Munster, in the eighth year of Constantine's reign.
The significance of Forteviot as the site of this law-making, along with Kenneth's death there and Constantine's later gathering at nearby Scone, may point to this as being the heartland of the sons of Alpín's support.
A shrine was built on the site of his death following Emperor Constantine's adoption of Christianity as the religion of the Roman Empire.
She was brought out of her retirement in a convent, convened the Senate and was proclaimed " emperor " by the imperial guard shortly before Constantine's death.
James Young Simpson, who had written several articles on archaeology, observed that there were contradictory accounts concerning the location of Constantine's death.
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.
In a memoir of the Roman emperor that Eusebius wrote after Constantine's death ( On the Life of Constantine, circa 337 – 339 ), a miraculous appearance came in Gaul long before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.
* Book II: from the Council of Nicea to Constantine's death ( 325-337 )
With the support of the barbarians, Gerontius spread over Constantine's territory ; in 411, he captured the city of Vienne and put Constans to death.
British legend, aided by Geoffrey of Monmouth, states that Constans was elected by the Britons as king after Constantine's death.
After Constantine's death, the prestige given to the orthodox cause in the Arianist controversy by the support of the venerable Hosius led the Arians to bring pressure to bear upon Constantius II, who had him summoned to Milan where he declined to condemn Athanasius nor to extend communion to Arians.
After Constantine's death, the palace passed to his nephew, and the Konstantinovichi branch of the Romanov dynasty retained its ownership until the Revolution.
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.
Before Constantine's death, he divided the Empire into four parts governed by caesares, apparently intending to re-establish the Tetrarchy.
Dalmatius was killed shortly after Constantine's death, and the Empire was divided into three parts.
Constantine's death in 1028 rendered the Byzantine invasion abortive, and, in 1030, the queen Mariam paid a visit to the new emperor Romanos III ( r. 1028 – 1034 ).
His two sons were appointed of important offices under Constantine's administration, but Flavius Dalmatius and his sons were killed in the purges that followed the Emperor's death in May 337.
After Constantine's death, his son and successor Constantius II was an Arian, as was Emperor Valens.
The " Great Persecution " of the Persian Christian churches occurred between 340-363 CE, after the Persian Wars that reopened upon Constantine's death.
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.
The first anti-Pagan laws by the Christian state started with Constantine's son Constantius II, who was an unwavering opponent of paganism ; he ordered the closing of all pagan temples, forbade Pagan sacrifices under pain of death, and removed the traditional Altar of Victory from the Senate.

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When King Constantine's eldest son Constans is murdered at Vortigern's instigation, the two remaining sons, Ambrosius and Uther, still very young, are quickly hustled into exile in Brittany.
This change of title, from king of the Picts to king of Alba, is part of a broader transformation of Pictland and the origins of the Kingdom of Alba are traced to Constantine's lifetime.
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.
The earliest event recorded in the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba in Constantine's reign is an attack by Vikings and the plundering of Dunkeld " and all Albania " in his third year.
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.
It is unlikely that Constantine's personal authority extended so far north, and while the attacks may have been directed at his allies, they may also have been simple looting expeditions.
For Constantine's last years as king there is only the meagre record of the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba.
The rockface at the west end of the building was cut away, although it is unclear how much remained in Constantine's time, as archaeological investigation has revealed that the temple of Aphrodite reached far into the current rotunda area, and the temple enclosure would therefore have reached even further to the west.
Where Diocletian's system of rescripts shows an adherence to classical tradition, Constantine's law is full of Greek and eastern influences.
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.
When asked by Constantia ( Emperor Constantine's sister ) for an image of Jesus, Eusebius denied the request, replying that " To depict purely the human form of Christ before its transformation, on the other hand, is to break the commandment of God and to fall into pagan error ".
He is pardoned by Constantine I as a result of the supplication of his wife Constantia ( who is Constantine's halfsister ), and banished to Thessalonica as a private citizen.
The removal of Claudius from the conspiracy is due to his later role as the progenitor of the house of Constantine, a fiction of Constantine's time, and may serve to guarantee that the original version from which these two accounts spring was current prior to the reign of Constantine.
* July 25 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum at Rome to commemorate Constantine's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.
It is unlikely that Constantine's personal authority extended so far north, and while the attacks may have been directed at his allies, they may also have been simple looting expeditions.
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 ).
About 325 it is believed that Constantine's mother, St. Helena, built a small church on the Mount in the 4th century, calling it the Church of St. Cyrus and St. John, later on enlarged and called the Church of the Holy Wisdom.
In Christianity it is believed that during the time of the Byzantine Empire, near the spot where the Dome was later constructed was where Constantine's mother built a small church, calling it the Church of St. Cyrus and St. John, later on enlarged and called the Church of the Holy Wisdom.
Of the battle itself, not much is known – Constantine's forces defeated Maxentius's troops, who retreated to the Tiber, and in the chaos of the fleeing army trying to cross the river, Maxentius fell into the water and drowned.
Gille Coemgáin of Moray is depicted fighting at Constantine's side.
Constantine's older sister Sofia is the current queen consort of Spain, while his younger sister, Princess Irene, has not married.

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