Constantine, brother of Aldroen

Also known as: Constantine · Family: Britons · Role: king of Britain · First appears: Book VI 4–6

Life events

• The Britons defeat the enemy, enabling Constantine’s accession.(Book VI 4–6)
  • With: Guethelin
  • “After this the Britons, before dispersed, flocked together from all parts, and in a council held at Silchester, promoted Constantine to the throne”
• The Britons promote Constantine to the throne and perform his coronation.(Book VI 4–6 · 📍 Silchester)
  • “and in a council held at Silchester, promoted Constantine to the throne, and there performed the ceremony of his coronation.”
• Constantine marries a lady descended from a noble Roman family.(Book VI 4–6)
  • “They also married him to a lady, descended from a noble Roman family, whom archbishop Guethelin had educated”
• Constantine fathers three sons: Constans, Aurelius Ambrosius, and Uther Pendragon.(Book VI 4–6)
  • With: Constans Aurelius Ambrosius Uther Pendragon
  • “and by whom the king had afterwards three sons, Constans, Aurelius Ambrosius, and Uther Pendragon.”
• A Pict serving Constantine stabs him to death with a dagger.(Book VI 4–6)
  • “At last, after ten years were expired, there came a certain Pict, who had entered in his service, and under pretence of holding some private discourse with him, in a nursery of young trees where nobody was present, stabbed him with a dagger.”

Book VI 4–6

• siblings with Aldroen “I deliver to you my brother Constantine with two thousand men, that with the good providence of God, he may free your country from the inroads of barbarians, and obtain the crown for himself.”
• child: Constans “They also married him to a lady, descended from a noble Roman family, whom archbishop Guethelin had educated, and by whom the king had afterwards three sons, Constans, Aurelius Ambrosius, and Uther Pendragon.”
• child: Aurelius Ambrosius “They also married him to a lady, descended from a noble Roman family, whom archbishop Guethelin had educated, and by whom the king had afterwards three sons, Constans, Aurelius Ambrosius, and Uther Pendragon.”
• child: Uther Pendragon “They also married him to a lady, descended from a noble Roman family, whom archbishop Guethelin had educated, and by whom the king had afterwards three sons, Constans, Aurelius Ambrosius, and Uther Pendragon.”

Book VIII 1–4

• child: Aurelius Ambrosius “First he betrayed my father Constantine”
• enemies with Vortigern “First he betrayed my father Constantine”
• child: Constans “First he betrayed my father Constantine, who had delivered him and his country from the inroads of the Picts; afterwards my brother Constans whom he made king on purpose to destroy him.”

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Extracted from the original text of The History of the Kings of Britain. Made with Rho MD.