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From: DON STONE< >
Subject: Descent from Gallo-Roman consul Syagrius - Chart
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 21:55:01 GMT


In article <3rnad3$ >
(James Clarke) said:
> From my understanding of late Roman history, the large
>country estates of the Roman aristocracy survived well into
>the 6th century AD. My question is has anyone been able to
>track their heritage back that far, or is it all gone past
>the the 10th century or so? Any comments welcomed. Thanks

Here is a probable connection with the late Roman empire,
based primarily on Settipani's 1989 book Les Ancetres de
Charlemagne, supplemented by various other sources. This
chart and the notes in the following message are extracted
from a set of illustrated annotated charts I am preparing.
This version of the chart is designed to be displayed or
printed with a fixed-width font.

PROBABLE DESCENT FROM FLAVIUS AFRANIUS SYAGRIUS TO CHARLEMAGNE:

Gen. 1.
Flavius Afranius Syagrius of =
Lyons; a Gallo-Roman |
senator, i.e., of paternal |
Roman descent; Proconsul |
Africae, 379; Praefectus |
Urbis Romae, 381; selected |
by the emperor Gratian as |
Consul for 382 (serving with |
Antonius); Praefectus |
Praetorio Italiae, 382; a |
poet. He was buried beneath |
an imposing monument at the |
city gate of Lyons, "not |
quite a full bowshot" from |
the church, and a statue of |
him was erected in the city. |
---------------|
Gen. 2. |
________ Ferreolus = ________, clarissima femina
|
|---------------
Gen. 3. |
Tonantius Ferreolus; = Papianilla, clarissima
Praefectus Praetorio | femina, a relative of
Galliarum, 451-452/3, during | Sidonius Apollinaris's wife
which time Attila the Hun | Papianilla (a daughter of
was defeated at the Battle | the emperor Avitus);
of the Catalaunian Plains | Ferreolus's wife was a
(Chalons); his diplomacy | partner who shared his
ended the siege of Arles by | troubles, according to
the Visigothic king | Sidonius.
Thorismodus; he served in |
Rome in 469 as a delegate to |
the trial of Arvandus; a |
Gallo-Roman senator with two |
known estates, Prusianum (on |
the Gardon, near Nimes) and |
Trevidos (perhaps near |
Rodez). |
|---------------
Gen. 4. |
Tonantius Ferreolus; vir = Industria
clarissimus; a senator of |
Narbonne; visited by his |
cousin St. Apollinaris of |
Valence in 517. |
|---------------
Gen. 5. |
Ferreolus; a senator in the = Dode; abbess of St.-Pierre
Narbonne region. | de Rheims.
|---------------
Gen. 6. |
Ansbert; a senator. = Bilichilde (?).
|
|---------------
Gen. 7. |
Arnoald; Bishop of Metz, =
601-611. |
- - - - - - - -|
Gen. 8. |
St. Arnulf; domesticus; a = Dode, probably a dau.
counselor of King Chlothar | of Arnoald.
II and of the young Dagobert |
I; Bishop of Metz, ca. |
613-629; d. 640. |
|---------------
Gen. 9. |
Ansegisel; vir inlustris, = St. Begga; daughter of
domesticus; d. betw. 648 and | Pippin I, Mayor of the
669, perhaps 662. | Palace in Austrasia; founder
| and abbess of Andenne, 691;
| d. 693.
|---------------
Gen. 10. |
Pippin II of Herstal; b. ca. = Alpais or Alpaida, probably
645; Mayor of the Palace in | a secondary wife.
Austrasia; d. 714. |
|---------------
Gen. 11. |
Charles Martel; Mayor of (1)= Rotrude; d. 724.
the Palace in Austrasia; b. |
ca. 690; halted the Muslim |
invasion of Europe at |
Poitiers in 732; d. 741. |
|---------------
Gen. 12. |
Pippin III the Short; Mayor = Bertha of Laon; d. 783.
of the Palace of Austrasia; |
b. ca. 715; deposed the last |
of the Merovingian kings and |
became first king of the |
Franks of the second race, |
ruling from 751 until his |
death in 768. |
|---------------
Gen. 13. |
Charlemagne, King of France;
b. 747 or 748, acc. 768, d.
813/4; crowned Holy Roman
Emperor in 800.

-- Don Stone, Computer Science Dept., Rowan College of NJ

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