Helena was the consort to Constantius Chlorus and the mother of Constantine the Great. By 324, Constantine alone ruled the length and breadth of the Empire. Two years later, he dispatched Helena to the Holy Land, to search among the runs for relics. She discovered the True Cross of Jesus Christ in the rubble beneath a Roman temple, and founds the Church of the Holy Sepulcher on the site.
The son of the Eastern Roman Emperor Licinius I and Constantia, the half-sister of Western Emperor Constantine the Great, Licinius the Younger served as Caesar to his father s Augustus. As the nephew...
Licinius was a partner and rival to Constantine the Great, serving as the Eastern Emperor of Rome. His marriage to Constantine s half-sister Constantia forestalled civil war. The wedding provided the...
Constantine the Great was the first Christian Emporer of Rome. It was Constantine who made Christianity the official state religion of the Roman Empire, elevating what had been a fringe religious...
Constantine the Great was the first Christian Emperor of Rome, the founder of the great city of Constantinople, and arguably the most historically significant Roman ruler of the Common Era. This...
Maxentius was a partner in the Tetrarchic system of government, where the empire was ruled by two senior emperors, one in the east and one in the west, each with a junior to assist them. He was the...