The church-history of Brittany from the beginning of Christianity to the Norman conquest under Roman governours, Brittish kings, the English-Saxon heptarchy, the English-Saxon (and Danish) monarchy ... : from all which is evidently demonstrated that the present Roman Catholick religion hath from the beginning, without interruption or change been professed in this our island, &c. / by R.F., S. Cressy of the Holy Order of S. Benedict.

VII. CHAP.* 1.1

1. The Emperour Alexander Severus murdred by Maximinus: who succeeds in the Empire.

1. THE Emperour Alexander Severus a vertuous Prince,* 1.2 no enemy to Christianity, which some conceive to have been profess'd by his Mother Mammaea, was in the fourteenth year of his raign slain by the treason of Iulius Maximinus who succeeded in his place. We mention this here, that we may take notice of the mistake of some Writers who affirm that he was slain in Brittany,* 1.3 in a town called Si∣cila. This is evident, saith Richard White, and that town took its name from Sicilius a Son of King Guintelin. True it is that Victor resolutly says that it was at Sicila a Village of Brittany, that Alexander was slain: and Lampridius affirms that it was in Brittany, or as other Writers will have it, in Gaule: But Herodian, Capitolinus and generally other Historians confidently pronounce, that it was in a Village neer Mogontiacum (or Mentz) called Sicila: wherin they are fol∣lowed by Eusobius, Onuphrius Panvinius, Platina, Baronius, &c. And this no doubt is the truth, since there are no ancient Monuments testifying that Alexander, or his Successour and Murderer Maximinus, ever were in Brittany.

Notes

• * 1.1

  A. D. 237.

  VII. CHA.
• * 1.2

  A. D. 2••7.
• * 1.3

  R. Vit•••• in l 5. no••. ••8. Victor in Cae∣saribus. Lamprid. in Alexand. Herod. hi. l. 6. Capitali••. in Maximi••. Euseb. in Chron. On••phr. P. l. 1. Roman. Princip. Platin. in Pontian.