Constans

Family: Roman Empire · Role: monk; Caesar; son of Constantine · First appears: Book I · Chap. XI

Life events

407 · Constantine elevated his monk son Constans to the rank of Caesar.(Book I · Chap. XI)
- With: Constantine the tyrant
- “His son Constans, a monk, whom he had created Caesar,”
407 · Count Gerontius killed Constans at Vienne.(Book I · Chap. XI · 📍 Vienne)
- With: Count Gerontius
- “was also put to death by his own follower Count Gerontius, at Vienne.”

parent: Constantine the tyrant (Constans is explicitly identified as Constantine's son.) “In his place, Constantine, one of the meanest soldiers, only for the hope afforded by his name, and without any worth to recommend him, was chosen emperor. As soon as he had taken upon him the command, he crossed over into Gaul, where being often imposed upon by the barbarians with untrustworthy treaties, he did more harm than good to the Commonwealth. Whereupon Count Constantius, by the command of Honorius, marching into Gaul with an army, besieged him in the city of Arles, took him prisoner, and put him to death. His son Constans, a monk, whom he had created Caesar”
sworn: Constantine the tyrant (Constantine appointed Constans Caesar.) “His son Constans, a monk, whom he had created Caesar”
liege: Count Gerontius (Gerontius is explicitly identified as Constans's follower.) “His son Constans, a monk, whom he had created Caesar, was also put to death by his own follower Count Gerontius, at Vienne.”
with Count Gerontius (Count Gerontius put Constans to death.) “His son Constans, a monk, whom he had created Caesar, was also put to death by his own follower Count Gerontius, at Vienne.”

Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.