Flavius Magnus

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Flavius Magnus (born ca 390 or 405 – 475) was a great personage in Gaul, where he was widely respected for his integrity and practical wisdom. He was a Roman Senator of Narbonne (then Narbo), Consul of Rome with Flavius Apollonius in 460 and the Prefect of Gaul in 469.

His father, born ca 380, might have been the son of Ennodius, Proconsul of Africa^{[citation needed]} . He might have been Flavius Felix (380 – 430), Consul of Rome in 428, who married Padusia and was an ancestor of Felix, Consul in 511 (?)^{[citation needed]} . His mother (b. 385) was a daughter of Flavius Julius Agricola, Consul of Rome in 421 and father of Emperor Avitus.^{[citation needed]}

He was the father of:

• Magnus Felix (430 – after 469), a Patron in 469, married to Attica (b. 440), perhaps the parents of:^{[citation needed]}
  • a son or a daughter (b. 460 or 465), who begot:^{[citation needed]}
    • Flavius Arcadius Placidus Magnus Felix, Consul of Rome in 511^{[citation needed]}
• Araneola (b. 435 or 440), married to Polemius, perhaps them the parents of:
  • a son or a daughter (b. 460 or 465), who begot:^{[citation needed]}
    • Flavius Arcadius Placidus Magnus Felix, Consul of Rome in 511^{[citation needed]}
• Flavius Probus, a Roman Senator^{[citation needed]}
• Ennodius (perhaps) (CRP 458), the father of Cynegia?^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

• Sidonius Apollinaris, The Letters of Sidonius (Oxford: Clarendon, 1915), pp. clx-clxxxiii
• Christian Settipani, Les Ancêtres de Charlemagne (France: Éditions Christian, 1989).
• Christian Settipani, Continuite Gentilice et Continuite Familiale Dans Les Familles Senatoriales Romaines A L'epoque Imperiale, Mythe et Realite, Addenda I - III (juillet 2000- octobre 2002) (n.p.: Prosopographica et Genealogica, 2002).