Helena

Role: concubine of Constantius · First appears: Book I · Chap. VIII

Life events

• c. 696 · Helena was said to have found the Cross at the church site.(Book V · Chap. XVI · 📍 Jerusalem)
  • “because the Cross of our Lord was said to have been found there by his mother Helena”

Book I · Chap. VIII

• child: Constantine “This man left his son Constantine, born of Helena, his concubine, emperor of the Gauls.”
• with Constantius (Helena is identified as Constantius's concubine.) “This man left his son Constantine, born of Helena, his concubine, emperor of the Gauls.”

Book V · Chap. XVI

• child: Constantine “It was built by the Emperor Constantine, in a royal and magnificent manner, because the Cross of our Lord was said to have been found there by his mother Helena.”

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