Constantine (name)
Konstantin ( Constantin also ) is a masculine first name and family name.
Origin and Meaning
The name Konstantin means "the Steadfast, the Steadfast " and is derived from the Latin word constans, resistant ',' constant '.
Variants
- Constantine, Constantine
- Koseformen and abbreviations: Kosta, Koni, Konni, Kon, Konsti, consequences, Kostya, Kostik, Stan, Tino, Dino, Cons
- Dutch: Constantijn, Stijn
- Italian: Costantino Costantini
- Greek Konstantinos, Kostas, the surname Konstantinou
- Lithuanian: Konstantinas
- Romansh: Constantino
- English: Constantine
- Portuguese: Constantim
- Polish: Konstanty
- Hungarian: Szilárd
Bearers of the name
Roman Emperor
In Rome the following emperors ruled as Constantine or a similar name:
- Constantius Chlorus (* 250, † 306, 305/ 06 Roman Emperor )
- Constantine I the Great († 337; 306-337 Roman Emperor )
- Constantine II (Rome ) ( Flavius Claudius Constantinus actually; * 317, † 340, 337-340 Roman Emperor )
- Constans ( Flavius Julius Constans, son of Constantine the Great, † 350, 337-350 Roman Emperor )
- Constantius II ( Constantius II Flavius Julius Constantius, son of Constantine the Great, * 317, † 361, 337-361 East Roman emperor, 353-360 sole Roman Emperor )
- Constantine III. (Rome ) ( 407-411 ), Gegenkaiser
- Constantius III. (421)
Byzantine Emperor
In Byzantium emperors ruled the following named Constantine or a similar name:
- Constantine the Great ( Constantine I, † 337, 306-324 Roman Emperor, 324-337 Total Roman Emperor )
- Constantius II ( Constantius II Flavius Julius Constantius, son of Constantine the Great, * 317, † 361, 337-361 Roman Emperor )
- Tiberius Constantius I ( 578-582 )
- Constantine III. ( Byzantium ) (613/641)
- Constans II ( 641-668 )
- Constantine IV ( Byzantium ), Pogonatos, ( 654/668-685 )
- Constantine V ( Byzantine) ( 720/741-775 )
- Constantine VI. ( Byzantium ) ( 776/780-797 )
- Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus ( 908/913-959 )
- Constantine VIII (962/1025-1028)
- Constantine IX. Monomachos (1042-1055)
- Constantine X Ducas (1059-1067)
- Constantine (XI ) Laskaris ( 1204-1205 )
- Constantine XI. Palaiologos (1449-1453)
As co-emperor:
- Constantine (son of Theophilus ) ( 833-835 )
- Constantine ( son of Michael III. ) ( 856-866 )
- Constantine ( son of Basil I) ( 868-879 )
- Konstantin Lakapenos ( 923/24-945 )
- Constantine Ducas Porphyrogenitus (1074-1078, 1081-1087/88 )
Patriarch in Constantinople Opel
- Constantine I ( 675-677 )
- Constantine II ( 754-766 )
- Constantine III. Lichoudas (1059-1063)
- Constantine IV Chliarenus (1154-1156)
- Constantius I. 1830-1834
- Constantius II (1834-1835)
- Constantine V (1897-1901)
- Constantine VI. (1924-1925)
Kings
- Constantine I (Scotland ) ( 863-877 )
- Constantine II (Scotland ) ( 900-943 )
- Constantine III. (Scotland ) ( 995-997 )
- Constantine I (Armenia ), Prince ( 1095-1102 )
- Constantine II (Armenia ), Prince ( 1129 )
- Constantine III. (Armenia ) ( 1299 )
- Constantine IV (Armenia ) ( 1342-1344 )
- Constantine V (Armenia ) ( 1344-1362 )
- Constantine VI. (Armenia ) ( 1362-1373 )
- Constantine I (Georgia ) ( 1407-1414 )
- Constantine II (Georgia ) ( 1478-1505 )
- Constantine I ( Kakheti ) ( 1605 )
- Constantine II ( Kakheti ) ( 1722-1729 )
- Constantine I (West Georgia) ( 1293-1327 )
- Constantine II (West Georgia) ( 1395-1401 )
- Constantine I (Ethiopia ) ( 1434-1468 )
- Constantine II (Ethiopia ) ( 1478-1492 )
- Constantine I (Greece) ( 1913-1917,1920-1922 )
- Constantine II (Greece) ( 1964-1973 )
- Konstantin Bodin, King of Serbia (1081-1101)
Other regents
- Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern - Hechingen last (1801-1869)
- Constantine (Russia), Grand Prince ( 1216-1218 )
- Constantine of Murom ( Jaroslaw Svyatoslavich; * after 1070, † 1129? ), Prince of Murom and Chernigov; Saint of the Russian Orthodox Church
- Constantine Tich Asen, Bulgaria ( † 1277 )
- Constantine Dragaš
- Constantin of Waldburg- Zeil Erbgraf - Trauchburg (1807-1862)
- Constantin Movilă, Moldova (1606-1611)
- Constantin Şerban Basarab, Moldova (1659, 1661)
- Constantin Cantemir, Moldova (1685-1693)
- Constantin Duca, Moldova (1693-1695, 1700-1703)
- Constantin Mavrocordat, Moldova (1733-1735, 1741-1743, 1748-1749, 1769)
- Constantin Racoviţă, Moldova (1749-1753, 1756-1757)
- Constantin Moruzi, Moldova (1777-1782)
- Constantin Ypsilanti, Moldova (1799-1801)
Cleric
- Constantine I ( Pope ) ( † 715)
- Constantine II ( antipope ) ( † after 769 )
- Constantine - Cyril of Thessalonica († 869 ), ( Great Moravia )
- Constantine of Mananalis († 684), founder of the Paulicians
Carrier of the family name
- Leopoldine Konstantin (1886-1965), Austrian actress
Personalities with name Constantine or Constantin
Constantin
- Constantin Alexandru ( born 1953 ), Romanian Ringer
- Constantin Bakaleinikoff (1898-1966), Russian composer
- Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), Romanian sculptor
- Constantin Brunner (1862-1937), German - Jewish philosopher
- Constantin Fehrenbach (1852-1926), German politician ( center ) and Chancellor
- Constantin Guys (1802-1892), French-Dutch painter and draftsman
- Constantin Noica (1909-1987), Romanian philosopher and journalist
- Constantin Seibt (born 1966 ), Swiss journalist
- Constantin von Wurzbach (1818-1893), Austrian writer and lexicographer
Konstantin
- Constantine Diogenes ( Konstantinos Diogenes; † 1028/34 ), the Byzantine army commander
- Constantine Fring (* 1990), German football player
- Konstantin Landa ( b. 1972 ), Russian chess grandmaster
- Constantine Kanaris (1790-1877), Greek naval hero and statesman
- Konstantin Rausch ( * 1990), German football player
- Fretwell of Knobelsdorfstrasse (1860-1936), General of Infantry
- Konstantin Seitz (born 1970 ), Austrian filmmaker
- Konstantin Shayne (1888-1974), Russian- American actor
- Konstantin Bernhard von Voigts- Rhetz (1809-1877), a Prussian General of the Infantry
- Konstantin Wecker (* 1947), German musician
Konstantinos
- Konstantinos Cordalis (* 1944; mentioned: Costa Cordalis ), German pop singer
- Konstantinos Minas (1788-1859), Greek philosophy and rhetoric teacher, philologist, translator, poet and manuscript collectors