Bede's Ecclesiastical History

Honorius

Family: Roman Empire · Role: emperor · First appears: Book I · Chap. X

Life events

  • Arcadius succeeded to the empire and ruled jointly with Honorius.(Book I · Chap. X)
    • With: Arcadius Theodosius
    • “In the year of our Lord 394, Arcadius, the son of Theodosius, the forty-third from Augustus, succeeding to the empire, with his brother Honorius, held it thirteen years.”
  • 407 · Count Constantius, acting for Honorius, captured and executed Constantine.(Book I · Chap. XI · 📍 Arles)
    • With: Constantine the tyrant Count Constantius
    • “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.”
  • 407 · Roman rule in Britain ended after nearly 470 years.(Book I · Chap. XI · 📍 Britain)
    • “Then the Romans ceased to rule in Britain, almost 470 years after Caius Julius Caesar came to the island.”

Book I · Chap. X

  • siblings with Arcadius “Arcadius, the son of Theodosius, the forty-third from Augustus, succeeding to the empire, with his brother Honorius, held it thirteen years.”

Book I · Chap. XI

  • parent: Theodosius (Theodosius is explicitly identified as Honorius's father.) “Honorius, the younger son of Theodosius, and the forty-fourth from Augustus, being emperor”
  • enemies with Constantine the tyrant (Honorius commanded the military action against Constantine.) “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.”
  • with Count Constantius (Honorius commanded Constantius to march into Gaul.) “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.”
  • liege: Count Constantius “Count Constantius, by the command of Honorius, marching into Gaul with an army”

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