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Flavius Magnus (c. 390 or 405 475) was a powerful politician in Gaul, where he was widely respected for his integrity and practical wisdom during the late age of the Western Roman Empire. He was a Roman Senator of Narbonne (then Narbo), Consul of Rome with Flavius Apollonius in 460 and the praetorian prefect of Gaul in 469.
[edit]Family
His father, born ca 380, might have been the son of Ennodius, Proconsul of Africa. He might have been Flavius Felix (380 430), Consul of Rome in 428, who married Padusia and was allegedly an ancestor of Felix, Consul in 511. His mother (b. 385) was a daughter of Flavius Julius Agricola, Consul of Rome in 421 and father of Emperor Avitus.
He was the father of:
Magnus Felix (430 after 469), a Patron in 469, married to Attica (b. 440), perhaps the parents of:
a son or a daughter (b. 460 or 465), who begot:
Flavius Arcadius Placidus Magnus Felix, Consul of Rome in 511
Araneola (b. 435 or 440), married to Polemius, perhaps them the parents of:
a son or a daughter (b. 460 or 465), who begot:
Flavius Arcadius Placidus Magnus Felix, Consul of Rome in 511
Flavius Probus, a Roman Senator
Ennodius (perhaps) (CRP 458), the father of Cynegia?
[edit]Sources and references
Sidonius Apollinaris, The Letters of Sidonius (Oxford: Clarendon, 1915), pp. clx-clxxxiii
[edit]Further reading
John R. Martindale, et alia, "Magnus 2" in The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire - Volume II, AD 395527, Cambridge University Press, 1980, pp. 700f
Preceded by
Flavius Ricimer,
Flavius Julius PatriciusConsul of the Roman Empire
460
with Flavius ApolloniusSucceeded by
Flavius Severinus,
Flavius Dagalaiphus