Tonantius Ferreolus (senator)

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Tonantius Ferreolus (also called Tonance Ferréol) (440 or say 450 – 511 or after 517), Vir clarissimus between 507 and 511, was a Roman Senator who lived in Narbonne, then Narbo, and a Senator of Narbonne between 479 and 517. He was also present and seen at Rome in 469 and 475 and was known to be a friend and relative of Sidonius Apollinaris.^{[citation needed]} He was the son of Tonantius Ferreolus, Prefect (405-475) and Papianilla.^{[citation needed]} His wife's name was thought to have been lost to the ages but, according to the reference below she was Industria of Narbonne, then Narbo, born ca 450 or 465,^{[citation needed]} whom he married before 475, daughter of Flavius Probus, Roman Senator, and wife Eulalia (?) (a german cousin of Sidonius Apollinaris).^{[citation needed]}

Tonantius Ferreolus was a witness where Sidonius Apollinaris, then bishop of Clermont, between 461 and 467, sent a letter to his friend, Donidius, describing a visit he made, a "most delightful time in the most beautiful country in the company of Tonantius Ferreolus (the elder) and Apollinaris, the most charming hosts in the world". He was on the estates of his father when Sidonius Appolinarius visited between 461 and 467. As Sidonius relates, "at Prusianum, as the other (estate) is called, (the young) Tonantius and his brothers turned out of their beds for us because we could not be always dragging our gear about: they are surely the elect among the nobles of our own age".

He was visited by his cousin St. Apollinaris of Valence in 517.^{[citation needed]}

1 Issue of Tonantius and Industria
2 References
3 Sources
4 References

[edit] Issue of Tonantius and Industria

Ferreolus, Senator of Narbonne, father of the Gallo-Roman Senator Ansbertus^{[citation needed]}
Ruricius (d. 506, 507 or shortly after 507), Bishop of Uzès^{[citation needed]}
Firminus, Bishop of Uzès in 507 (ca 490 – 538, 551 or October 11, 553), Feast Day October 11^{[citation needed]}
Fadentius, the father of St. Ferreolus, Bishop of Uzès (553 ; January 4, 581), Feast Day January 4, and Saint Tarsicia of Rodez (died ca 600), Feast Day January 15^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

The Royal Ancestry Bible Royal Ancestors of 300 Colonial American Families by Michel L. Call (chart 2074) ISBN 1-933194-22-7

[edit] Sources

New England Historic and Genealogical Register 101:112

[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).