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'''Flavius Valerius Constantinus''' ('''Constantine I''' or '''Constantine the Great''') ([[272]] - [[May 22]], [[337]]), proclaimed [[Augustus]] by his troops in [[306]]; and ruled an ever-growing portion of the [[Roman Empire]] to his death. 
 
 He was born at [[Naissus]] in Upper Dacia to [[Constantius I Chlorus]] and an innkeeper's daughter, [[Helena, mother of Constantine the Great|Helena]]. Constantine was well educated and served at the court of [[Diocletian]] after the appointment of his father as one of the two [[Caesar|Caesari]], at that time a junior emperor, in the [[Tetrarchy]] in [[293]]. On the death of his father Constantius in 306, he managed to be at his deathbed in Eburacum ([[York, England|York]]), where troops loyal to his father's memory proclaimed him Emperor. For the next 18 years he fought a series of battles and wars that left him as supreme ruler of the Roman Empire.
 
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'''Flavius Valerius Constantinus''' ('''Constantine I''' or '''Constantine the Great''') ([[272]] - [[May 22]], [[337]]), proclaimed [[Augustus]] by his troops on [[July 25]], [[306]]; and ruled an ever-growing portion of the [[Roman Empire]] to his death. 
 
 He was born at [[Naissus]] in Upper Dacia to [[Constantius I Chlorus]] and an innkeeper's daughter, [[Helena, mother of Constantine the Great|Helena]]. Constantine was well educated and served at the court of [[Diocletian]] after the appointment of his father as one of the two [[Caesar|Caesari]], at that time a junior emperor, in the [[Tetrarchy]] in [[293]]. On the death of his father Constantius in 306, he managed to be at his deathbed in Eburacum ([[York, England|York]]), where troops loyal to his father's memory proclaimed him Emperor. For the next 18 years he fought a series of battles and wars that left him as supreme ruler of the Roman Empire.
 
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