FLAVIUS VALERIUS AURELIUS CONSTANTINUS I. was born in Britain, A.D. 272; crowned at Rome, 306; transferred the seat of empire to Constantinople, and dedicated the city to Christ, 330; died 337, after a reign of thirty years and nine months. The place of his birth is doubtful; by some said to be Dacia; by others, Britain, of which his father was governor, where he married Helena, a British lady. Among other evidence is the panegyric of Eumenes, “Oh, Britain! blessed of all lands, who first beheld Cæsar Constantinus,” &c. Constantine was esteemed an eloquent preacher, and one of his sermons has come down to us. He left behind him three sons, who succeeded him. FLAVIUS JULIUS CONSTANTINUS II. Junior, succeeded his father: he was born at Arles, 312; crowned, 337; and was killed in 340 in battle, and his body cast into the river Alsa. FLAVIUS JULIUS CONSTANTINUS was born in Pannonia, 318; crowned, 326; and died of apoplexy, 361. FLAVIUS JULIUS CONSTANS I. was born 330; crowned, 333; and died, 350. The manner of his death is disputed: he either was killed in battle, or put an end to his own life, to escape his enemies. FLAVIUS CLAUDIUS JULIANUS, nephew of Constantine the Great, was born at Constantinople in 332; crowned, 361; and died, 363. He was killed in battle in Persia, by an arrow from a Persian horseman. He endeavoured to extinguish Christianity, and obtained the name of the _Apostate_. In him the family of Constantine terminated. _Family of Jovian._ FLAVIUS JOVIANUS was born in Pannonia in 324; crowned, 363; and died, 364. He was suffocated by the fumes of charcoal. He revived Christianity, but lived only seven months and twenty-one days after he came to the throne. _Family of Valentinianus._ FLAVIUS VALERIUS VALENTINIANUS I. was born in Pannonia in 321; crowned, 364; and died, 375, of apoplexy. FLAVIUS GRATIANUS was born in Belgium in 359; crowned, 367; and killed in battle, 385. The empire was now divided into Eastern and Western; Valentinianus II. was nominated to the latter, and Valens to the former. FLAVIUS VALENS was born in Pannonia in 328; crowned, 376; and burnt to death in a cottage in Thrace by the Goths, 378. _Family of Theodosius._ Flavius Theodosius I. was born at Seville in Spain in 335; crowned, 379; and died, 395, of a dropsy. He obtained the name of the _Great_ for his achievements. Among others, he restored peace in Britain, when disturbed by the Picts. To encourage the arts, he erected a splendid column at Constantinople, to rival that of Trajan at Rome. It was cast down by an earthquake, and no longer exists. FLAVIUS ARCADIUS was born in 379; crowned, 395; and died, 408. He followed his father’s example in erecting a splendid column: both have been prostrated by earthquakes. His brother Honorius succeeded to the Western empire.