Shortly thereafter, however, Constantius II renewed the order for Athanasius's banishment in 338. "Within a few weeks he set out for Rome to lay his case before the Church at large. He had made his appeal to Pope Julius, who took up his cause with whole-heartedness that never wavered down to the day of that holy pontiff's death. The pope ...

Romulus Augustus (c. 465 – after 511), nicknamed Augustulus, was Roman emperor of the West from 31 October 475 until 4 September 476. Romulus was placed on the imperial throne by his father, the magister militum Orestes, and, at that time, still a minor, was little more than a figurehead for his father.After Romulus ruled for just ten months, the barbarian general …

Constance Chlore ou Constance I er, Caius Flavius Julius Constantius (vers 250-306), est un César du 1 er mars 293 au 1 er mai 305 et un empereur romain du 1 er mai 305 au 25 juillet 306. Il est l'un des quatre empereurs de la Tétrarchie instaurée par Dioclétien .

Flavia Julia Helena Augusta (also known as Saint Helena and Helena of Constantinople, / ˈ h ɛ l ə n ə /; Greek: Ἑλένη, Helénē; c. AD 246/248– c. 330) was an Augusta and Empress of the Roman Empire and mother of Emperor Constantine the Great.She was born in the lower classes traditionally in the Greek city of Drepanon, Bithynia, in Asia Minor, which was renamed …

Constantine I (Latin: Flavius Valerius Constantinus; Ancient Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος, romanized: Konstantinos; 27 February c. 272 – 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337, and the first to convert to Christianity. Born in Naissus, Dacia Mediterranea (now Niš, Serbia), he was the son of Flavius Constantius, a Roman army …

Ippolito (II) d'Este (25 August 1509 – 2 December 1572) was an Italian cardinal and statesman. He was a member of the House of Este, and nephew of the other Ippolito d'Este, also a cardinal.He is perhaps best known for his despoliation of the then 1,400-year-old Hadrian's Villa, built by the Roman emperor Hadrian, removing marbles and statues from it to decorate his own …

John VI Kantakouzenos or Cantacuzene (Greek: Ἰωάννης Ἄγγελος Παλαιολόγος Καντακουζηνός, Iōánnēs Ángelos Palaiológos Kantakouzēnós; Latin: Johannes Cantacuzenus; c. 1292 – 15 June 1383) was a Byzantine Greek nobleman, statesman, and general.He served as grand domestic under Andronikos III Palaiologos and regent for John V Palaiologos before ...

Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius (c. 283 – 28 October 312) was a Roman emperor, who reigned from 306 until his death in 312.Despite ruling in Italy and North Africa, and having the recognition of the Senate in Rome, he was not recognized as a legitimate emperor by his fellow emperors.. He was the son of former Emperor Maximian and the son-in-law of Emperor Galerius.

In classical antiquity, Illyria (/ ɪ ˈ l ɪər i ə /; Ancient Greek: Ἰλλυρία, Illyría or Ἰλλυρίς, Illyrís; Latin: Illyria, Illyricum) was a region in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula inhabited by numerous tribes of people collectively known as the Illyrians.Illyrians spoke the Illyrian language, an Indo-European language, which in ancient times perhaps also had ...

The ecumenical patriarch (Greek: Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης, romanized: Oikoumenikós Patriárchēs) is the archbishop of Constantinople (), New Rome and primus inter pares (first among equals) among the heads of the several autocephalous churches which compose the Eastern Orthodox Church.The ecumenical patriarch is regarded as the representative and …

Theodosius II (Greek: Θεοδόσιος, translit. Theodosios; 10 April 401 – 28 July 450) was Roman emperor for most of his life, proclaimed augustus as an infant in 402 and ruling as the eastern Empire's sole emperor after the death of his father Arcadius in 408. His reign was marked by the promulgation of the Theodosian law code and the construction of the Theodosian Walls of …

Constantius II Κωνστάντιος Fl. Iulius Constantius: 22 May 337 – 3 November 361 Born on 7 August 317, as the second surviving son of Constantine I, he inherited the eastern third of Roman Empire upon his father's death, sole Roman Emperor from 353, after the overthrow of the western usurper Magnentius.

Constantine VI was the only child of Emperor Leo IV and Irene.Constantine was crowned co-emperor by his father in 776, and succeeded as sole emperor in 780, at the age of nine. Due to his minority, Irene and her chief minister Staurakios exercised the regency for him.. In 787 Constantine had signed the decrees of the Second Council of Nicaea, but he appears to have …

Gaius Valerius Galerius Maximinus (20 Kasım 270 - Temmuz/Ağustos 313) 308 - 313 yılları arasında tahta çıkmış olan ve aslında bir köylü ismi olan Daia'yı taşıyan, Tuna bölgesinde doğmuş Roma İmparatoru. Galerius'un kız kardeşinin oğludur.. Orduya girmesinin ardından hızla yükseldi ve 305 yılında anne tarafından dayısı olan Galerius tarafından evlatlık olarak ...