Parents
Father: Emperor Constantine of Rome
Born: 265 in Ebolacum, Brittain
Married: March 31, 307
Died: May 22, 337 in Nicomedia
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Mother: Princess Flavia of Rome
Born: 289
Died: 326
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Children:
1. Emperor Constantine II of Rome (b.309)
2. Emperor Constans I of Rome (b.311)
3. Emperor Constantinos II of Rome (b.317)
4. Princess Helena of Rome (b.319)
5. Princess Constantia of Rome (b.323)
Note: Constantine I, Augustus, (Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantius), born 265, in Ebolacum, Btittain. He died May 22, 337, and is buried in the church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople. Constantine received only a meager education. He took up soldiering early, and proved his valor in the wars against Egypt and Persia. He was of British birth and education, and is known as the first Christian Emperor. He fought with his father in the Boulogne campaign and shared in a British campaign. The Gallic army, deeply loyal to the humane Constantius, came to love his handsome, brave, and energetic son; and when the father died at York in 306, the troops proclaimed Constantine not merely as "Caesar" but as Augustus - emperor. He accepted the lesser title, excusing himself on the grounds that his life would be unsafe without an army at his back. Consequently Constantine fought successfully against the invading Franks. Later, with a British army he set out to put down the persecution of Christians forever. The greatest of all Roman Emperors, he annexed Britain to the Roman Empire and founded Constantinople. In the year 321 he decreed that the Christian Sunday be truly observed as a day of rest. In 325 he assembled the Council of Nicea in Bithynia, Asia Minor, which he attended in person. This Council formulated the Nicene Creed. The following edict of Constantine sets forth the standards of his life: "We call God to witness, the Savior of all men, that in assuming the government we are influenced solely by these two considerations - the uniting of the empire in one faith, and the restoration of peace to a world rent in pieces by the insanity of religious persecution."
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