Statue of Roman emperor Constantine The Great, by sculptor Philip Jackson, outside York Minster church in York, North Yorkshire,...
Statue of Roman emperor Constantine The Great, by sculptor Philip Jackson, outside York Minster church in York, North Yorkshire, England. Constantine had been serving alongside his father Flavius Constantius (Constantius Chlorus), in AD 305, in Roman Britain, in military campaigns against the Picts. When Constantius, who was Caesar of the western provinces of Rome, took ill in 306, he named his son his successor, and after his death the Roman army in Britain, in the town of Eboracum, modern York, proclaimed Constantine Emperor of Rome.
