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 ( 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 )

His name may suggest that he was born rather earlier, during the reign of his uncle Constantine I.

Woolf suggests that Constantine and his cousin Donald may have passed Giric's reign in exile in Ireland where their aunt Máel Muire was wife of two successive High Kings of Ireland, Áed Findliath and Flann Sinna.

If he had been in exile, Constantine may have returned to Pictland where his cousin Donald II became king.

A negotiated settlement may have ended matters: according to John of Worcester, a son of Constantine was given as a hostage to Æthelstan and Constantin himself accompanied the English king on his return south.

Although his retirement may have been involuntary, the Life of Cathróe of Metz and the Prophecy of Berchán portray Constantine as a devout king.

While many have shared Burckhardt's assessment, particularly with reference to the Life of Constantine, others, while not pretending to extol his merits, have acknowledged the irreplaceable value of his works which may principally reside in the copious quotations that they contain from other sources, often lost.

A feasible synopsis of the emerging consensus, may be put forward, namely, that the kingships of Gaels and Picts underwent a process of gradual fusion, starting with Kenneth, and rounded off in the reign of Constantine II.

The friendship of the Emperor Constantine raised him from penury and he became tutor in Latin to his son Crispus, whom Lactantius may have followed to Trier in 317, when Crispus was made Caesar ( lesser co-emperor ) and sent to the city.

The pope may have utilized the forged Donation of Constantine to gain this land, which formed the core of the Papal States.

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.

Some have interpreted the vision in a solar context ( e. g., as a solar halo phenomenon ), which may have been reshaped to fit with the Christian beliefs later expressed by Constantine.

A negotiated settlement may have ended matters: according to John of Worcester, a son of Constantine was given as a hostage to Æthelstan and Constantín himself accompanied the English king on his return south.

Although he reluctantly baptized the fruit of this relationship, the future Constantine VII, Nicholas forbade the emperor from entering the church and may have become involved in the revolt of Andronikos Doukas.

In one extant inscription ( CIL III. 12132, from Arycanda ), the cities of Lycia and Pamphylia asking for the interdiction of the Christian cult, Maximinus, in another inscription, replied by expressing his hope that " may those [...] who, after being freed from [...] those by-ways [...] rejoice snatched from a grave illness ". After the victory of Constantine over Maxentius, however, Maximinus, according to Eusebius, directed a letter to the Praetorian Prefect Sabinus, in which he expressed the view that it was better to " recall our provincials to the worship of the gods rather by exhortations and flatteries ".

Sidonius may be a descendant of another Apollinaris who was Prefect of Gaul under Constantine II between 337 and 340.

He was the son of Constantine II ( Causantín mac Áeda ); his mother may have been a daughter of Earl Eadulf I of Bernicia, who was an exile in Scotland.

Constantine Doukas was the son of Andronikos Doukas, a Paphlagonian nobleman who may have served as governor of the theme of Moesia.

Scholar Hilda Ellis-Davidson draws a parallel between berserkers and the mention by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII ( AD 905 – 959 ) in his book De cerimoniis aulae byzantinae (" Book of Ceremonies of the Byzantine court ") of a " Gothic Dance " performed by members of his Varangian Guard ( Norse warriors working in the service of the Byzantine Empire ), who took part wearing animal skins and masks: she believes this may have been connected with berserker rites.

But the theology assumed in this explanation suggests that the concept of grace as understood by Constantine may have been altered into something Protestants find hard to fit into the New Testament's treatment of the concept.

Constantine III may refer to:

Constantine in turn may have had to put aside Minervina in order to secure an alliance with the same man.

It may have been used to contain the body or relics of Constantine, although the style of carving indicates an origin in the 10th or 11th centuries.

Constantine IV had done away with the requirement during the reign of Pope Benedict II, John V's predecessor, providing that " the one elected to the Apostolic See may be ordained pontiff from that moment and without delay ".