However, this situation changed drastically when Alexios ' first son John II Komnenos was born in 1087: Anna's engagement to Constantine was dissolved, and she was moved to the main Palace to live with her mother and grandmother.

Geoffrey also names him as one of three sons of Constantine III, along with Constans II and Uther Pendragon.

He continued to lead the conflict against the Arians for the rest of his life and was engaged in theological and political struggles against the Emperors Constantine the Great and Constantius II and powerful and influential Arian churchmen, led by Eusebius of Nicomedia and others.

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.

A first wall was erected by Constantine I, and the city was surrounded by a double wall lying about 2 km to the west of the first wall, begun during the 5th century by Theodosius II.

* Constantine II ( emperor )

* Constantine II, Prince of Armenia

* Constantine II, King of Armenia, also called Constantine IV

* Constantine II ( or Kuestantinos II ) of Ethiopia, also known as Eskender

* Constantine II of Greece

* Constantine II of Scotland

* Constantine II of Cagliari

* Constantine II of Georgia

* Tiberius II Constantine

* Patriarch Constantine II of Constantinople

* Antipope Constantine II

Constantine II may refer to:

* Constantine II ( emperor ) ( 317 – 340 ), Roman Emperor 337 – 340

* Constantine III ( usurper ) ( died 411 ), known as Constantine II of Britain in British legend

* Constantine II of Byzantine ( 630 – 668 )

Constantine VIII (, Kōnstantinos VIII ) ( 960 – 11 November 1028 ) was reigning Byzantine Emperor from 15 December 1025 until his death.

Constantine XI Palaiologos, Latinized as Palaeologus (, Kōnstantinos XI Dragasēs Palaiologos ; 8 February 1404 – 29 May 1453 ) was the last reigning Byzantine Emperor.

Constantine I (, Konstantínos Αʹ, Vasiléfs ton Ellínon ; – 11 January 1923 ) was King of Greece from 1913 to 1917 and from 1920 to 1922.

Constantine X Doukas ( or Ducas ) (, Kōnstantinos X Doukas ) ( 1006 – May 1067 ) was emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 1059 to 1067.

Constantine's birth name was Heraclius the New Constantine (, ), which was also the official name under which he reigned.

Constantine IV (, ), ( c. 652 – September 685 ), sometimes incorrectly called Pogonatos, " the Bearded ", by confusion with his father ; was Byzantine Emperor from 668 to 685.

Constantine VI (, Kōnstantinos VI ) ( 771 – 802 ) was Byzantine Emperor from 780 to 797.

Other important markets in the vicinity were the second-hand market (), the " Long Market " (), corresponding to the Greek " Makrós Émbolos " (,, a long porticoed mall stretching downhill from the Forum of Constantine to the Golden Horn, which was one of the main market areas of the city ), while the old book market () was moved from the Bazaar to the present picturesque location near the Beyazid Mosque only after the earthquake of 1894.

Constantine (,, also spelled Qasentina also spelled as Kasantina ) is the capital of Constantine Province in north-eastern Algeria.

The Byzantine Senate or Eastern Roman Senate (, Synklētos, or, Gerousia ) was the continuation of the Roman Senate, established in the 4th century by Constantine I.

Rigas Feraios ( or Rhegas Pheraeos ) or Rigas Velestinlis ( or Rhegas Velestinles ) (,, born Αντώνιος Κυριαζής, Antonios Kyriazis, ; also known as Κωνσταντίνος Ρήγας, Konstantinos or Constantine Rhigas ; Serbian: Рига од Фере, Riga od Fere, ; 1757 – June 13, 1798 ) was a Greek writer, political thinker and revolutionary, active in the Modern Greek Enlightenment, remembered as a Greek national hero, a victim of the Balkan uprising against the Ottoman Empire and a forerunner of the Greek War of Independence.

Following the reforms of Diocletian and Constantine I, the service was divided in two sections: the fast (, ) and the regular (, ).

Constantine I (, called Константин Тих, Konstantin Tih ( Tikh ), which includes the shortened form of the name of his father as a patronymic ), ruled as emperor ( tsar ) of Bulgaria from 1257 to 1277.

Konstantínos G. Karamanlís () ( 8 March 1907 – 23 April 1998 ), commonly anglicised to Constantine Karamanlis or Caramanlis, was a four-time Prime Minister, twice President of the Third Hellenic Republic and a towering figure of Greek politics whose political career spanned much of the latter half of the 20th century.

At the First Synod of Tyre in AD 335, they brought accusations against Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, the primary opponent of Arius ; after this, Constantine had Athanasius banished, since he considered him an impediment to reconciliation.

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.

First exile: under Emperor Constantine, for 2. 5 years Jul 335 – 22 Nov 337 ; in Trier ( Germany ).

Theodosius I founded the Church of John the Baptist to house the skull of the saint ( today preserved at the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, Turkey ), put up a memorial pillar to himself in the Forum of Taurus, and turned the ruined temple of Aphrodite into a coach house for the Praetorian Prefect ; Arcadius built a new forum named after himself on the Mese, near the walls of Constantine.

In a last attempt to protect it, Constantine attacked the enemy sword raised ; however he was defeated and killed.

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

Constantine, son of Áed ( Medieval Gaelic: Constantín mac Áeda ; Modern Gaelic: Còiseam mac Aoidh, known in most modern regnal lists as Constantine II ; before 879 – 952 ) was an early King of Scotland, known then by the Gaelic name Alba.

The Second Battle of Corbridge appears to have been indecisive ; the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba is alone in giving Constantine the victory.

Constantine directed his mother, Helena, to build churches upon sites which commemorated the life of Jesus Christ ; she was present in 326 at the construction of the church on the site, and involved herself in the excavations and construction.

Socrates Scholasticus ( born c. 380 ), in his Ecclesiastical History, gives a full description of the discovery ( that was repeated later by Sozomen and by Theodoret ) which emphasizes the role played in the excavations and construction by Helena ; just as the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem ( also founded by Constantine and Helena ) commemorated the birth of Jesus, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre would commemorate his death and resurrection.

According to tradition, Constantine arranged for the rockface to be removed from around the tomb, without harming it, in order to isolate the tomb ; in the centre of the rotunda is a small building called the Kouvouklion ( Kουβούκλιον ; Modern Greek for small compartment ) or Aedicule ( from Latin: aediculum, small building ), which supposedly encloses this tomb, although it is not currently possible to verify the claim, as the remains are completely enveloped by a marble sheath.

The Diocletianic Persecution ( 303 – 11 ), the Empire's last, largest, and bloodiest official persecution of Christianity, did not destroy the Empire's Christian community ; indeed, after 324 Christianity became the empire's preferred religion under its first Christian emperor, Constantine.

Most in the crowd believed they knew what would follow ; Constantine and Maxentius, the only adult sons of a reigning Emperor, men who had long been preparing to succeed their fathers, would be granted the title of Caesar.

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.

* Church History ( Eusebius ) ; The Life of Constantine ( Eusebius ), online at ccel. org.

With the exception of a short period of eclipse, he enjoyed the complete confidence both of Constantine and Constantius II and was the tutor of the later Emperor Julian the Apostate ; and it was he who baptized Constantine the Great on May 22, 337.

** Marcus, Gratian, Constantine " III " and Constans " II " in Gaul and Britain ;

The First Council of Nicaea ( naɪsi: ə ; ) was a council of Christian bishops convened in Nicaea in Bithynia ( present-day İznik in Turkey ) by the Roman Emperor Constantine I in AD 325.

Derived from Greek oikoumenikos (), " ecumenical " means " worldwide " but generally is assumed to be limited to the Roman Empire in this context as in Augustus ' claim to be ruler of the oikoumene / world ; the earliest extant uses of the term for a council are Eusebius ' Life of Constantine 3. 6 around 338, which states "" ( he convoked an Ecumenical Council ); Athanasius ' Ad Afros Epistola Synodica in 369 ;< ref >