* Constantine Dragaš

Constantine was born in Constantinople as the eighth of ten children to Manuel II Palaiologos and Serbian Helena Dragaš, the daughter of the Serbian prince Constantine Dragaš.

John VIII Palaiologos was the eldest son of Manuel II Palaiologos and Helena Dragaš, the daughter of the Serbian prince Constantine Dragaš.

He was born in Mystra as the eighth of ten children of Manuel II Palaiologos and Helena Dragaš, the daughter of the Serbian prince Constantine Dragaš of Kumanovo.

* Constantine Dragaš

Theodore was a son of Eastern Roman Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus and Helena Dragaš and the brother of the last two Eastern Roman Emperor, John VIII Palaeologus and Constantine XI Palaeologus.

Manuel II Palaiologos married Helena Dragaš, daughter of Constantine Dragaš who was a regional lord of the dissolved Serbian realm.

His maternal grandfather was Constantine Dragaš.

Marble plate of Đurađ Branković about reconstruction of the Constantinople | Walls of Constantinople in 1448, during the reign of Constantine XI Palaiologos | Constantine XI Dragaš Palaiologos, today in Istanbul Archaeological Museum.

* Theodora Nemanjić, who married sebastokrator Dejan Dragaš, mother of Constantine Dragas

Constantine Dragaš Dejanović (; fl.

States in the Central Balkans, including Realm of Constantine Dragaš ( Principality of Velbazhd ) in 1373 – 1395

In 1395, together with his neighbor and ally, the Serbian king of Prilep Marko, Constantine Dragaš was killed fighting for their Ottoman overlord Sultan Bayezid I against Mircea cel Bătrân of Wallachia at Rovine, near Craiova.

Constantine Dragaš was married twice.

By his first wife, Constantine Dragaš had at least one daughter and possibly a son:

Their many children included the last two Byzantine emperors, of whom Constantine XI added the name Dragaš ( in Greek, Dragasēs ) to his own.

His maternal grandfather was the Serb prince Constantine Dragaš.

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.

# Theodora Komnene, who married ( 1 ) Constantine Kourtikes and ( 2 ) Constantine Angelos.

Another son had died at Brunanburh, and, according to John of Worcester, Amlaíb mac Gofraid was married to a daughter of Constantine.

But when, in early 1915, the Allies asked for Greek help in the Dardanelles campaign, offering Cyprus in exchange, their diverging views became apparent: Constantine had been educated in Germany, was married to Sophia of Prussia, sister of Kaiser Wilhelm, and was convinced of the Central Powers ' victory.

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.

To back up an armistice signed with the Byzantine Empire in 1046, his father married him to Byzantine Anastasia ( d. 1067 ), who tradition holds was a daughter of Emperor Constantine IX Monomachos by his second wife ( he gained the Imperial throne through his third marriage ), but no reliable source has ever been found to confirm this.

Because he and his brother, the future Emperor Constantine VIII ( ruled 1025 – 1028 ), were too young to reign in their own right, Basil's mother Theophano married one of Romanos ' leading generals, who took the throne as the Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas several months later in 963.

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.

Embarrassed by further failures, she and her supporters were supplanted in 919 by the admiral Romanos Lekapenos, who married his daughter Helena Lekapene to Constantine VII and finally advanced to the imperial throne in 920.

Constantine XI married twice: the first time on 1 July 1428 to Theodora Tocco, niece of Carlo I Tocco of Epirus, who died in November 1429 ; the second time to Caterina Gattilusio, daughter of Dorino of Lesbos, who also died, during childbirth, in 1442.

* Constantine Palaiologos ( 1261 – 1306 ), who married Eirene Raoulaina his second cousin

In May 919 he married his daughter Helena Lekapene to Constantine and was proclaimed basileopator (" father of the emperor ").

* Helena Lekapene, who married Emperor Constantine VII.

She was brought to Constantinople by Emperor Constantine V on 1 November 769, and was married to his son Leo IV on 17 December.

Consequently, Constantine VIII was forced to choose Theodora ’ s sister, Zoe, who married Romanos instead in 1028.

She eventually married Constantine IX Monomachos, on 11 June 1042, and the management of the empire reverted to him.

* Irene Doukaina Laskarina, who married Constantine I of Bulgaria

After the death of Thekla, in c. 823, Michael II married Euphrosyne, a daughter of Constantine VI and Maria of Amnia.

So in March 313 Licinius married Flavia Julia Constantia, half-sister of Constantine, at Mediolanum ( now Milan ); they had a son, Licinius the Younger, in 315.

Beginning in 307 already, he tried to arrange friendly contacts with Constantine, and in the summer of that year, Maximian traveled to Gaul, where Constantine married his daughter Fausta and was in turn appointed Augustus by the senior emperor.

Constantine reportedly married " a lady, descended from a noble Roman family ".

* Princess Anne-Marie Dagmar Ingrid ( born 1946 ), who married King Constantine II of the Hellenes ( later deposed ) in 1964.

To solidify his position, John married Theodora, a daughter of Emperor Constantine VII.

Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.

* Conclave of Light of the Masonic & Military Order of the Red Cross of Constantine No. 498 was consecrated on the 23 April 2009, it currently meets on the second Tuesday in January, July & November

Then it passed through the oval Forum of Constantine where there was a second Senate-house and a high column with a statue of Constantine himself in the guise of Helios, crowned with a halo of seven rays and looking toward the rising sun.

The second son of Constantine I and Fausta, he ascended to the throne with his brothers Constantine II and Constans upon their father's death.

He was the third son of Constantine the Great, and second by his second wife Fausta, the daughter of Maximian.

Constans was the third and youngest son of Constantine the Great and Fausta, his father's second wife.

Shortly after the Roman Emperor Constantine I legalized Christianity in 321, he also constructed an elaborate second capital of the Roman Empire located at Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople, in 324.

Flavius Claudius Julianus, born in May or June 332 or 331 in Constantinople, was the son of Julius Constantius ( consul in 335 ), half brother of Emperor Constantine I, and his second wife, Basilina, a woman of Greek origin.

Constantius II ordered the murders of many descendants from the second marriage of Constantius Chlorus and Theodora, leaving only Constantius and his brothers Constantine II and Constans I, and their cousins, Julian and Gallus ( Julian's half-brother ), as the surviving males related to Emperor Constantine.

The Byzantine princess Zoe, second daughter of Emperor Constantine VIII ) had just disembarked in Puglia, on her way to marry him.

At the time of his death, the Byzantine princess Zoe, second daughter of Emperor Constantine VIII was traveling to Italy to marry him.

Theodore also spoke against the second marriage of Michael II to the nun Euphrosyne, a daughter of Constantine VI, although in a very moderate fashion, and with none of the passion or effect of the Moechian controversy.

* Fausta, second wife of Constantine I ( d. 326 )

* Fausta, second wife of Constantine I, is also executed.

* Fausta, second wife of Constantine I ( executed )

The 1896 Athens Games was funded by the legacies of Evangelis Zappas and his cousin Konstantinos Zappas and by George Averoff who had been specifically requested by the Greek government, through crown prince Constantine, to sponsor the second refurbishment of the Panathinaiko Stadium.

After Constantine the Great had enlarged Byzantium to make it into a new capital city in 330, it was thought appropriate that its bishop, once a suffragan of Heraclea Pontica and traditionally a successor of Saint Andrew the Apostle, should become second only to the Bishop of Old Rome.

Oliver Cromwell becomes a moral monster, and the revocation of the Edict of Nantes was the greatest achievement of the second Constantine.