The first emperor of the Constantine dynasty ¡ª Constantine I (Latin: Constantinus I Magnus), full name Gaeus Flavius Valerius Constantinus (February 27, 272 AD ¨C May 22, 337 AD), emperor of the Roman Empire, from 306 to 337.
character brief introduction
After winning several civil wars, he became the only ruler of the Roman Empire since 324 AD. During the reign, the new capital Constantinople was built to confront the Roman Senate: promoting government and military reforms, strengthening the border of the empire. The reforms made by the great emperor to the Empire greatly influenced the Eastern Roman Empire, and even in the 200 years after his death, the Eastern Rome adopted most of the military system created by him.
Late years followed Christianity.
He was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity, and in 313 AD, in conjunction with Lyceum, issued the Edictum Mediolanense, which recognized the freedom of all religious beliefs within the Empire.
Constantine was born in the Roman Empire's upper Messian province of Nesos (now Nish in eastern Serbia).
character life
Constantine was born around 272 in the town of Nessus in Yugoslavia (now Nish). His father was a senior general of the army. Constantine spent his youth in Nicomedia, the home of the court of the first emperor Diakry.
He was the eldest son of Constantine I. Crowe in the western Augustus of the Empire. Constantine's mother, Helena, is said to be a maid of a small hotel, and Constantine was her private son with Constantine I. But this claim was suspected by British historian Edward Gibbon. Gibbon believed that Helena was the owner of this small hotel and that her marriage to Constantine I was legal. In any case, when Constantine was appointed Caesar by Augustus Maximus of the Western Empire in 293, he abandoned Helena and married Flavia Maximina Diodor.
Constantine served primarily in the East for the highest emperor of the Empire in his youth. In 305, Constantine first withdrew with Maximus, and Constantine marched to Britain for a meeting with his father, Constantine I, who had already ascended to Augustus. In 306, Constantine I died, and the British army declared Constantine Augustus in the northern city of York (July 25th, 306).
In the year 305, Constantine's father, Constantine I, became the monarch of the western half of the Roman Empire. Constantine I died the following year, and his army demanded that Constantine be emperor, but other generals opposed this demand, leading to a series of domestic wars. The war ended until 312 when Constantine defeated his last enemy, Maxentius, in the Battle of the Milvian Bridge near Rome.
Constantine became the honorable ruler of the western half of the Roman Empire, but the eastern half was ruled by another general, Li Sini.
In 323 Constantine took the initiative, and the government of Constantine the Great also summoned the Gothic to confront his relative Licinius, and besieged him in Thessalonica, and defeated him in 324 at Adrianburg and Chrysoples.
He was the only monarch of the Roman Empire from that time until his death in 337.