* Historia Augusta, The Life of Antoninus Pius, English version of Historia Augusta Note that the Historia Augusta includes pseudohistorical elements.

The Historia Augusta, Life of Antoninus Caracalla, relates ( 10. 5 ) that Caracalla then assumed the name Alemannicus, at which Helvius Pertinax jested that he should really be called Geticus Maximus, because in the year before he had murdered his brother, Geta.

According to Herodian, the Roman armies suffered a number of humiliating setbacks and defeats, while according to the Historia Augusta as well as Alexander's own dispatch to the Roman Senate, he gained great victories.

* Historia Augusta, Life of Severus Alexander

In the late 2nd century, the Historia Augusta mentions that in the rule of Marcus Aurelius ( 161-80 ), an alliance of lower Danube tribes including the Bastarnae, the Sarmatian Roxolani and the Costoboci took advantage of the emperor's difficulties on the upper Danube ( the Marcomannic Wars ) to invade Roman territory.

* Anonymous Historia Augusta ( ca.

According to the Historia Augusta, the Roman emperor Hadrian issued a decree banning circumcision in the empire,

The often-unreliable Historia Augusta states that he served in Gaul, but this account is not corroborated by other sources and is ignored by modern historians of the period.

According to the Historia Augusta, he quoted from Virgil while doing so.

* Historia Augusta: A history from Hadrian to Carus.

The reasons for his usurpation are unclear and Historia Augusta, the almost sole resource for the events, does not provide a credible story.

Gallienus returned in 263 or 265 and, as even Historia Augusta admits, was entirely successful, finally besieging Postumus in an unnamed Gallic city ; however, during the siege, he was severely wounded by an arrow and had to leave the field.

The two Macriani left Quietus, Ballista, and, presumably, Odenathus to deal with the Persians while they invaded Europe with an army of 30, 000 men, according to the Historia Augusta.

According to the Historia Augusta, an unreliable source compiled long after the events it describes, a conspiracy was led by the commander of the guard Aurelius Heraclianus and one Marcianus.

One version has Claudius selected as Emperor by the conspirators, another chosen by Gallienus on his death bed ; the Historia Augusta was concerned to substantiate the descent of the Constantinian dynasty from Claudius, and this may explain its accounts which do not involve Claudius in the murder.

* Historia Augusta ( Augustan History ), The Two Gallieni

Ammianus and the Historia Augusta, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1968.

The 9th-century " Historia Brittonum " sees in Lucius a translation of the Celtic name Llever Maur ( Great Light ), says that the envoys of Lucius were Fagan and Wervan, and tells us that with this king all the other island kings ( reguli Britanniæ ) were baptized ( Hist.

The earliest Norwegian written source, Historia Norwegiæ ( late 12th century ), states that Olaf was born in Orkney after his mother fled there to escape the killers of Olaf's father-another late 12th century source, Ágrip, says Olaf's mother fled to Orkney with Olaf when he is three years old, for the same reason.

In the Historia Brittonum, Nennius says that " the great king Mailcun reigned among the Britons, i. e., in Gwynedd ".

The Historia Brittonum says that Æthelfrith gave the town of Din Guaire to his wife Bebba, after whom it was named Bamburgh ; Bede also says that Bamburgh was named after a former queen named Bebba, although he does not mention Æthelfrith.

Geoffrey's Historia says that Brutus and his followers landed at Totnes in Devon.

According to the Historia Brittonum, Penda's ally Cadafael ap Cynfeddw of Gwynedd ( thereafter remembered as " Cadomedd " (=" battle-shirker ") abandoned him, along with his army, and Bede says that Aethelwald of Deira withdrew from the battle to await the outcome from a place of safety.

Since the Historia Brittonum says Penda ruled for only ten years ( Bede says 22 years: 633 – 655 ), this may mean that it was dating Penda's reign from the time of his victory at Maserfield ; this would make sense if Eowa's death removed an important rival to Penda, enabling him to claim or consolidate authority over all the Mercians.

The existence of Elmet is attested in the Historia Brittonum, which says that King Edwin of Northumbria " occupied Elmet and expelled Certic, king of that country ".

Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum says that Hereric, the father of St Hilda of Whitby, was killed at the court of King Ceretic.

Cadwaladr's name appears as ' Catgualart ' in a section of the Historia Brittonum, where it says he died of a dreadful mortality while he was king.

Boece in his book of 1527 the ' Historia Gentis Scotorum ' ( History of the Scottish People ), says that this one entity was nocht unlike the Loch Doune full of fische.

The Historia Augusta also says that both father and son were buried near Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium in marble tombs.

The Historia Regum Britanniae says that at the time of her death Samuel was judge in Judea, Aeneas Silvius was ruling Alba Longa, and Homer was gaining fame in Greece.

The Historia General de Navarra by Jaime del Burgo says that on the occasion of the donation of the villa of Alastue by the king of Pamplona to the monastery of San Juan de la Peña in 987, he styled himself " King of Navarre ", the first time that title had been used.

Eusebius also records Origen's statement that he obtained these and others of Symmachus ' commentaries on the scriptures from a certain Juliana, who, he says, inherited them from Symmachus himself ( Historia Ecclesiae, VI: xvii ) Palladius of Galatia ( Historia Lausiaca, lxiv ) records that he found in a manuscript that was " very ancient " the following entry made by Origen: " This book I found in the house of Juliana, the virgin in Caesarea, when I was hiding there ; who said she had received it from Symmachus himself, the interpreter of the Jews ".

Hildesheim's Historia Trium Regum says: “ In the third India is the kingdom of Tharsis, which at that time was ruled over by King Caspar, who offered incense to our Lord.

However, Historia Norwegiae says that Olof succeeded his father and ruled as the king of Sweden in peace until his death.

The historian Walter Goffart says of the Historia that many modern historians find it a " tale of origins framed dynamically as the Providence-guided advance of a people from heathendom to Christianity ; a cast of saints rather than rude warriors ; a mastery of historical technique incomparable for its time ; beauty of form and diction ; and, not least, an author whose qualities of life and spirit set a model of dedicated scholarship.

It is probable that the first narrator of the " I don't understand " story was Fray Toribio de Benavente, a. k. a. Motolinia, who at the end of chapter 8 of the third book of his Historia de los indios de la Nueva España ( History of the Indians of New Spain, written c. 1541 ) says: " because speaking with those Indians of that coast, to that which the Spaniards asked the Indians responded: Tectetán, Tectetán, which means: I don't understand you, I don't understand you: the Christians corrupted the word, and not understanding what the Indians meant, said: Yucatán is the name of this land ; and the same happened with a cape made by the land there, which they named the Cape of Cotoch, and Cotoch in that language means house.

The Historia General de Navarra by Jaime del Burgo says ( referencing in turn the Anales del Reino de Navarra of José de Moret ) that on the occasion of the donation of the villa of Alastue by Sancho to the monastery of San Juan de la Peña in 987, he titled himself " King of Navarre ," the first time that title had been used.

The account in the Historia Britonum ( c. 835 ; generally attributed to Nennius ) says Geat was considered the son of a god by the heathens of England, but elsewhere it names Gothus, a son of Armenon, as the Goths ' ancestor.

Born in Dardania, the Historia Augusta claimed Constantius was the son of Eutropius, a noble from northern Dardania, in the province of Moesia Superior, and Claudia, a niece of the emperors Claudius II and Quintillus.

Theodora, the wife of Constantius Chlorus, is often called Maximian's stepdaughter by ancient sources, leading to claims by Otto Seeck and Ernest Stein that she was born from an earlier marriage between Eutropia and Afranius Hannibalianus .< ref > Aurelius Victor, de Caesaribus 39. 25 ; Eutropius, Breviaria 9. 22 ; Jerome, Chronicle 225 < sup > g </ sup >; Epitome de Caesaribus 39. 2, 40. 12, quoted in Barnes, New Empire, 33 ; Barnes, New Empire, 33 .</ ref > Barnes challenges this view, saying that all " stepdaughter " sources derive their information from the partially unreliable work of history Kaisergeschichte, while other, more reliable sources, refer to her as Maximian's natural daughter .< ref > Origo Constantini 2 ; Philostorgius, Historia Ecclesiastica 2. 16 < sup > a </ sup >, quoted in Barnes, New Empire, 33.

There is some doubt as to whether Flavia Maximiana Theodora, who married Constantius I Chlorus, was the a daughter of Eutropia by an earlier husband < ref > Aurelius Victor, de Caesaribus 39. 25 ; Eutropius, Breviaria 9. 22 ; Jerome, Chronicle 225 < sup > g </ sup >; Epitome de Caesaribus 39. 2, 40. 12, quoted in Barnes, New Empire, 33 ; Barnes, New Empire, 33 .</ ref > or whether she was a daughter of Maximian by an earlier anonymous wife < ref > Origo Constantini 2 ; Philostorgius, Historia Ecclesiastica 2. 16 < sup > a </ sup >, quoted in Barnes, New Empire, 33.