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British Constantine
The "British Constantine" was a flattering conceit applied to both Elizabeth I and James I of England, implying a comparison with the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. It had both secular and religious implications, Constantine having unified the Roman Empire of his time, and made Christianity a state religion.
Constantine was associated also, through the work ''Oratio ad sanctorum coetum'' ("Oration of Constantine" or "sermon of Constantine"), with the Christian reading of the fourth ''Eclogue'' of Virgil. Here a Sybilline oracle is invoked as a supposed source of Virgil. The Christian interpretation is Messianic, an idea grafted onto Virgil's original praise of a coming Golden Age of empire.〔''Virgil's Messianic eclogue, its meaning, occasion & sources; three studies by Joseph B. Mayor, W. Warde Fowler () R.S. Conway. With the text of the Eclogue, and a verse translation by R.S. Conway'' (1907), p. 23; (archive.org. )〕
==Background==
Constantine III of Britain (6th century) was one of the legendary kings of Britain, having a slender historical basis; Constantine I of Scotland (5th century) was a mythical figure from the king-list of George Buchanan. Constantine I of the Picts (9th century) was a real historical figure. The main historical reference of the "British Constantine", however, from the 12th century to the 18th century, was the Roman Emperor Constantine I. This was the period in which the legend that Constantine was a British native was taken seriously, and had significance for politics. It was bound up with completely unattested stories about the British origin of his mother, Helena of Constantinople, important in Christian tradition. While Constantine was at York in 306 with his father Constantius Chlorus, and was declared Augustus on his father's death in that year, there is no historical evidence to connect Helena with Britain.〔Mulligan, pp. 260–1.〕

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