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Magnus Maximus [1] (Classical Latin: ... It is not recorded what happened to Maximus's family after his downfall. He is known to have had a wife, ...
Saint Elen (Welsh: Elen Luyddog, lit. "Helen of the Hosts"), often anglicized as Helen, was a late 4th-century founder of churches in Wales.Although never formally canonized by Rome, Elen is traditionally considered a saint in the Welsh Church; in English she is sometimes known as Saint Helen of Caernarfon to distinguish her from Saint Helena ("Helen of Constantinople").
Sevira (a Vulgar Latin spelling of the Classical Latin name Severa) was a purported daughter of the Roman Emperor Magnus Maximus and wife of Vortigern. [1] [2] She was mentioned on the fragmentary, mid-ninth century C.E. Latin inscription of the Pillar of Eliseg in the ancient commote of Yale, near Valle Crucis Abbey, Denbighshire, Wales.
Both texts associate him with Magnus Maximus (Macsen Wledic, reigned 383–388), a Roman usurper against the Valentinianic dynasty who was widely regarded as having deprived Britain of its defences when he took its legions to claim the imperial throne. Conan's cousin or sister, Saint Elen, is said to have been Macsen Wledic's wife.
He also tells his men to kill Maximus’ wife and son, who the general so desperately wanted to return to after colonizing Germania. Maximus escapes but is later captured and becomes a gladiator.
Magnus Maximus r. 383–388: Constantia 362–383: Gratian 359–383 r. 375–383: Aelia Flaccilla d. 385: Theodosius I 347–395 r. 379–395: Galla d. 394:
Sometime in 383, Gratian's wife Constantia died. [4] Gratian remarried, wedding Laeta, whose father was a consularis of Roman Syria. [5] On the 25 August 383, according to the Consularia Constantinopolitana, Gratian was killed at Lugdunum by Andragathius, the magister equitum of the rebel augustus during the rebellion of Magnus Maximus (r.
Magnus Maximus, who had served under the comes Theodosius and had won a victory over the Picts in 382, was proclaimed augustus by his troops in the Spring of 383 and crossed the channel, encamping near Lutetia (Paris). While the legions on the Rhine welcomed him, those in Gaul remained loyal to Gratian.