Constantine I 'the Great'

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Constantine the Great (Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus), born 265, died in May, 336 or 337, buried in the church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople. He was of British birth and education, and is known as the first Christian Emperor. 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." By his first wife (1) Minervina he was father of Flavius Valerius Crispus Caesar. He married (2) Fausta, sister of his step-mother, Theodora. Fausta and Theodora and their brother Maxentius were children of Maximinus, Roman Emperor (286-305). One writer, Brewer, said he was a giant, eight feet, six inches tall! His son Maxentius, Emperor (310-311), married Valeria, daughter of Galerius, Emperor (310-311), and his wife, Valeria, who was daughter of Diocletian, Emperor (284-305). Fausta and Constantine the Great had three sons: Constantine II., Constantius II., and Constants I., and a daughter, Helen, wife of Julian the Apostate.

Constantine married Fausta in 307. [Group Sheet]

1. Constantina
2. Flavius Valerius CRISPUS CAESAR
3. Constantius II was born on 7 Aug 317 in Illyricum Province, Roman Empire; died on 3 Nov 361 in Tarsus.

Constantine married Helen, of the Cross. Helen (daughter of Coel I GODHEBOG and Ystradwal OF SILURIA) was born in in Drepanum, Bithynia. [Group Sheet]

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Prince Coel, son of Cyllin, was living A.D. 120. (Dr. Anderson, referred to in Wurts, makes him identical with King Coel, son of Marius, but this is evidently a misapprehension.) Prince Coel was the father of King Lleuver Mawr the second Blessed Sovereign.

Coel married Ystradwal OF SILURIA. [Group Sheet]

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King of Siluria, was sainted by the early Church of Britain. "He first of the Cymry gave infants names, for before names were not given except to adults, and then from something characteristic in their bodies, minds, or manners." His brother Linus the Martyr, his sister Claudia and her husband Rufus Pudens aided the Apostle Paul in the Christian Church in Rome, as recorded in II Timothy 4:21 and Romans 16:13 (Rufus Pudens and St. Paul are shown to be half-brothers, with the same mother but different fathers. "His mother and mine." She thus appears to have been the mother of an elder son, Paul, by a Hebrew husband, and a younger son, Rufus, by a second marriage with a Roman Christian.)

also shown with sibling Cynan b. 816

Cyllin married Julia verch Prasutagus OF THE ICENI. [Group Sheet]