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Constantine the Great
Constantinus I la Κωνσταντῖνος ὁ Μέγας grc
Roman emperor from 306 to 337 and first to convert to Christianity (272–337)
- Child of Constantius Chlorus and Helena Augusta
- Married to Minervina, Fausta
- Dated c. 27 February 272 CE – 22 May 337 CE
- Recognised as Saint
pontifex maximus
Roman emperor
ancient Roman senator
Offices on record
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
Offices held 3
- 25 July 306 CE – 22 May 337 CE Roman emperor
- Dates unrecorded ancient Roman senator
Family
The family of Constantine the Great
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 17
Family 17
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Constantius Chlorus Roman emperor (250-306) -
child of (child) Helena Augusta saint, first wife of Roman emperor Constantius Chlorus, and mother of Emperor Constantine the Great (250-330) -
of the house Constantinian dynasty ancient Roman imperial dynasty -
parent of (father) Constans Roman emperor from 337 to 350 -
parent of (father) Constantina daughter of Roman emperor Constantine the Great -
parent of (father) Constantine II Roman emperor (316-340) -
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parent of (father) Constantius II Roman emperor (317-361) -
parent of (father) Crispus Roman caesar from 317 to 326 -
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parent of (father) Helena daughter of Roman emperor Constantine the Great and Roman empress as the consort of Julian - sibling of Anastasia daughter of Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus and Flavia Maximiana Theodora
- sibling of Eutropia daughter of Constantius Chlorus
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sibling of Flavia Julia Constantia 4th-century Roman empress and wife of Licinius - sibling of (half) Flavius Dalmatius brother of Constantine the Great
- sibling of Flavius Hannibalianus half-brother of Constantine the Great
- sibling of Julius Constantius son of Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus (died 337)
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married to Fausta Roman empress and second wife of Constantine I -
married to Minervina first wife of Constantine the Great
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
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Named as founderHagia Sophia
mosque, museum, and former church in Istanbul, Turkey -
Named as founderChurch of the Holy Sepulchre
church in Jerusalem, containing the two holiest sites in Christianity -
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Named as founderChurch of the Nativity
basilica in Bethlehem -
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Named as founderHagia Irene
Byzantine church building in Istanbul, Turkey now a hall and museum -
Named as founderOld St. Peter's Basilica
church in Rome, Papal States -
Named as founderChurch of the Holy Apostles
church and imperial mausoleum in Turkey
Texts
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
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Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
24 statements on this record
- 9 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 15 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 4 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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