368 AD   While under Valentinian I neglectful rule, Scots,

                Picts & Saxons invade Britain on three fronts.

                They carve into the Isle’s western lowlands,

                break across Hadrian’s Wall in the north and

                settle onto its southeastern shores. Key Briton

                leaders are killed, Nectaridus, count of Kent,

                and Fullofaudes, duke of Britain.

369 AD   Commanded by the Western Emperor, Count

     to        Theodosius regains control of London.

       374   Magnus Maximus defeats armies of Picts &

                Scots. Though still turbulent times, some

                social order is restored but only after an internal

                revolt conspired by a Pannonian man named

                Valentinus has been put down. Later on, though,

                Count Theodosius is killed by Valens.

375 AD   Emperor Valentinian dies. Gratian, his son,

                becomes the Western Emperor. Imperial

                Church asserts its growing control.

376 AD   The Imperial Danube frontier is crossed by

                the Goths and other Germanic tribes fleeing

                from the furious raiding Huns.

378 AD   The Battle of Adrianople. A devastating Roman

                defeat delivered by the heavy cavalry of the Goths.

                The Eastern emperor, Valens was killed in the battle.

                After this point, Germanic tribes are allowed to settle

                on Imperial frontiers and operate as federations under

                Roman law.

                Theodosius I, son of C. Theodosius, becomes Eastern

                Roman Emperor.

380 AD   Pelagius leaves Britain for Rome. He is disturbed by

                the moral standards of the Roman Christians and blames

                it directly on the spiritual doctrine of Augustine of Hippo.

381 AD   Gratian is no longer capable to defend the Empire. 

    to         As this becomes apparent, Magnus Maximus lays        

     383     claim to the throne.  Leaving Britain, Maximus engages

                Gratian’s army near Paris who switch their allegiance to

                Magnus. Eventually, Gratian is killed in Lyons by his own

                men. In the summer of the last year, the Germans cross

                over the Rhine.

388 AD   Magnus Maximus is dead.
 

392 AD   Theodosius I becomes emperor of the

                whole Roman Empire. Afterwards, he

                officially condemns anyone, anywhere,

                even if in private, for practicing any pagan

                rites, ancient or contemporary.

 

394 AD   Symmachus and the Roman aristocracy

                rally behind a pagan general but are

                defeated by Theodosius. During this

                time, the Germans are pacified by the

                Emperor.
 

395 AD   Theodosius I dies leaving Honorius, age

                11, emperor of both the eastern and

                western empires with Stichilo as the Imperial

                regent.

399 AD   Stichilo goes to Britain to get a handle on the

                refortification of the Isle.

401 AD   Stichilo sends troops from Britain to the Continent

                to do battle with the Goths.

403 AD   Alaric the Bold, the Gothic warrior-king, is defeated

                at Verona.
 

405 AD   Great barbarian movement throughout northwestern

                Europe. In Britain, local tribal leaders set themselves up as

    to         Roman Emperors but they are killed. First, a man by the

        407   name of Marcus and then followed by another named

                Gratian.

                Flavius Claudius Constantine or simply Constans

                becomes King of Britain.

                With his army, he crosses the Channel.

                On the mainland, he conquers Armorica and as far south

                as Arles. In doing so, he displaces the Vandals and Sueves

                sending them into southern Spain. Defying all in the West,

                Constans establishes a Keltic kingdom throughout much of

                Gaul and Britain.

                Pelagius leaves Rome.
 

408 AD   Stichilo dies leaving Rome vulnerable to invasions.

410 AD   Roman Britons protest to Honorius

                about Constans’ rule. The young

                emperor informs them that they are

                on their own.

                After Constans hears of Roman

                Britons petitioning Honorius for

                Imperial help, the British king allows

                Alaric and the Goths to pass unmolested

                through the eastern frontier of

                the Roman Empire.

411 AD   Pelagianism controversy rages on.
     to
      417    Wisely, King Constans relinquishes the

                control of Arles & southern Gaul. Though

                Constans solidified his hold on the Kymric

                Lands of Armorica and Britain, he fails to

                help the Keltic Christian Cause.

                The doctrine of Free-will perishes under

                the heavy sword of the Imperial Church

                and is stripped from existence.

418 AD   Pelagianism is condemned as heresy at

                the Council of Carthage by Auretius,

                Osorius Paulus the deacon of Milan

                and Augustine of Hippo.

423 AD   Ban de Benoic is born.

424 AD   Uther Pendragon, Constans’ first son,

                is born in Brest where King Constans’

                rules over his kingdom.

425 AD   Mourdé, Constans’ second son, is born.

427 AD   King Constans’ health begins to fail.

                In a formal courtly manner, Vortigern is

                established as a regent over Uther and Mourdé.

                All of the King’s men respectfully pay homage

                to Constans’ sons in a grand ceremony.

428 AD   Many factions develop within Britain during

                this time. Roman-Britons power is greatly diminished.

                Kymric and invading clans strongly contend for local rule.

429 AD   Raising the ailing Roman sword, St. Germanus

                of Auxerre leads an army of Roman-Britons

                against the Saxons & Picts and defeat them.

                To gain the support of remaining Romans,

                Vortigern condemns the Keltic-Britons. By

                considering them heretics, he confiscates

                their lands in the name of the Church.

430 AD   Civil war consumes parts of Britain.

                Augustine of Hippo dies in Africa during

                the Vandal siege.

 

431 AD   Bringing an uneasy peace, Vortigern’s

                becomes High King of Britain.

432 AD   After being a slave for 6 years and then escaping to the

                mainland, St. Patrick returns to Ireland seeking to buy

                his freedom from Miliucc, his former slave master. Upon

                hearing this, the heathen man torches himself and his family

                in his own home before St. Patrick reaches him.
 

435 AD   Aëtius, the Roman general, uses Hunnish auxiliaries to

                subjugate the Burgundians. The Western Empire struggles

                to remain functioning. 

440 AD   Britons successfully turns back invading Picts, Scots and

                Saxons, once more. Vortigern struggles to maintain his

                weak claim to High King of Britain. Roman-Britons upper-class

                begin to realize this by the Teutonic-mercenary

                power base established by Horsa and Hengist.

443 AD   The Roman world suffers from a plague. Armoric elders

                prod at Ban to become the High Kymric King. Ban de Benoic

                abandons all of his Armoric duties and leaves on a year long quest.

                Upon returning, Ban de Benoic becomes the king of Armorica.

444 AD   Afterwards, the elders of the clans support the siege on Kent

                to uproot Vortigern’s power. By the brilliant guide of Merlin,

                the usurper’s towers are toppled and he is slain by the hand

                of Uther. Prematurely, Pendragon proclaims himself the

                High King of Britain and sets out to receive homage from his

                powerful subjects. Arthur, the boy that would be king, is sired

                on All Hallows Eve by Pendragon after his affair with Ygerne

                masterminded by Merlin.
 

445 AD   In August, Arthur is born. By late September, Uther has been

                slain by his own subjects and the future High King of Britain

                is in Merlin’s hands being delivered to a Keltic nobleman for

                the raising.

446 AD   The Black Death hits Britain. Horsa and Hengist leads an

                all-out Saxon revolt. Roman-Britons sends a plea to Aëtius

                but it falls on deaf ears. The Keltic clans plea with King Ban

                to conquer Britain. Instead, Ban gives their foreign families

                and friends safe refuge in Armorica.

447 AD   Massive social uprisings occur on the Isle of Britain. As if to

                nothing had changed in 20 years, St. Germanus returns to the

                449 Isle to find it, once more, a violent melting pot of social

                anarchy brewed from a bitter blend of Roman, Kymric,

                Scottish, Pictish and Saxon bad blood.

450 AD   A year of prosperity for Armorica. Previous seasons of drought

                are forgotten with the year’s great yield. The strength of

                Armorica is solidified from Brest to as far northeast as Fougères

                and southeast of Nantes.

451 AD   Revealing the true power that Armorica has become, Aëtius

                graciously courts Ban and his Kymric knights at Arles after

                they show up to an unprecedented provincial gathering. All

                factions of Gaul are represented at this Imperial council.
 

                Merovius and his son, Childeric, come forth for the Franks.

                From the Visigoths, Theodoric brings his two sons, Theodoric

                and Euric. From Armorica, Ban brings his brother, Boris de

                Brest, and close powerful friend, Jean-Claude de Vannes.
 

                At the Council of Arles, King Ban secures Armorica’s

                freedom from Imperial Rome in exchange for Ban’s

                legendary leadership. That summer, the Gothic, Frank and

                Roman armies join forces with the Kymric knights of Armorica.

                They sweep back the overwhelmed Huns on the Catalaunian

                plains, 12 miles west of Troyes in northeastern Gaul.
 

                Theodoric I, the warrior-king of the Goths, dies in the

                legendary battle.

452 AD   Armorica is heralded as the safe haven for all Keltic clans of

                northern Europe. Standing in direct opposition of the Imperial

                standards, Ban adheres to the Truths of Pelagianism. King Ban

                rejects Augustine’s Christian view of pre-born damnation and

                believes that everyone has control of their own soul, good or bad.

                In the spring, Attila the Huns sweeps into southern Gaul, on

                the march to Rome. Pope Leo I pays the great Hun to spare

                the Eternal City.

453 AD   The balance of Power within the Western Roman Empire shifts

                dramatically. The Scourge of God dies in the spring and the

                Hunnish Empire ceases to be a major threat.

                Aëtius’ Imperial prestige increases.

                Sabrina de Paimpont, the daughter and only child of Jean-Claude,

                is born in Vannes.

454 AD   In the spring, the future Prince of Armorica, Alayn de Rennes,

476 AD   The story, Deadly Secrets, takes place.