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Personal data Tonantius Ferreolus "de oude" van Rome 

• He was born in the year 405.
• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Tonantius Ferreolus (ca. 415 - 475?) was een belangrijk Gallo-Romeins politicus uit de vijfde eeuw.
  
  Tonantius Ferreolus was de zoon van Ferreolus en Syagria, en daarmee kleinzoon van Flavius Afrianus Syagrius. Hij was gehuwd met Papianilla, nicht van keizer Avitus en van de Papianilla die met Sidonius Apollinaris was getrouwd. Hij had grote bezittingen in de omgeving van Nîmes, onder andere de villa Prusianus aan de Gardon (rivier) die door Sidonius Apollinaris in zijn brieven met veel waardering wordt beschreven.
  
  Tonantius Ferreolus was Praefectus praetorio van Gallië van 450 tot 453. Hij speelde een belangrijke diplomatieke rol tijdens het beleg van zijn residentie Arles in 453 door de Visigoten. In 469 was hij lid van de delegatie (onder andere samen met Thaumastus) die in Rome ging pleiten tegen de pretoriaans prefect Arvandus. Aanleiding daarvan was dat Arvandus de Visigoten ertoe had aangezet om Bretagne aan te vallen, terwijl de koning van Bretagne bondgenoot was van de Romeinen. Arvandus werd in 470 veroordeeld, afgezet en verbannen. Daarna trok Tonantius Ferreolus zich terug op zijn landgoed Trevidon in de Cevennen.
  
  Vader van Tonantius Ferreolus (senator).

• (Levens event) .Source 2

  Tonantius Ferreolus (born ca 405 – died after 469) was the praetorian prefect of Gaul (praefectus praetorio Galliarum) from 451. He lived in the Gard valley on his estate of Prusianum and possessed additional estates at Segondum in Rodez. His father and uncles were famous, and at least one of his ancestors during the 4th century was a patrician.[1] He was either "personally related to" or "connected through (...) relatives" with Sidonius Apollinaris, but see below. His mother was a clarissima femina and daughter of Flavius Afranius Syagrius, Consul in 382.[2][3]
  
  As praetorian prefect of Gaul he was instrumental in organizing Gaul for the successful defence against the invasion of Attila and the Hun army. At the same time he diplomatically restrained the Patrician and Magister Militum Flavius Aetius from levying excessive taxes against the people of the Gallic Prefecture, receiving public acclaim for his efforts. Following the defeat of the Huns by a Roman Gothic alliance, Ferreolus resisted the attempts of Visigothic king Theodoric to take advantage of the situation to obtain more territory or privileges in 452-453 when that king besieged Arles. He was associated with Thaumastus and Petronius in conducting the impeachment of Arvandus, a successor in the Gallic Prefecture who had behaved extortionately toward the people of Gaul and who had written a letter to Visigothic King Euric encouraging that monarch to break with his allegiance to Emperor Anthemius and partition Gaul with the Burgundians, presumably with Arvandus' connivance. This prosecution was successful in obtaining a conviction though Arvandus was reprieved, to some extent, it would appear, though the good offices of Sidonius Apollinaris, from execution and he was merely exiled.[4][5] Ferreolus was apparently living a life of religious contemplation after 469 though there is no indication he ever took orders.[6] He is the first clearly attested historical person bearing the either the name Ferreolus or Tonantius - there are two much earlier martyrs of the name. However his father's marriage into the Syagrii and his own patrician ancestry suggest that the family was well known and powerful under a different name or names during the third and fourth centuries at least. The family was to retain considerable importance and exert considerable influence in Gaul for over a century and perhaps two after the fall of the Roman Empire.
  
  He had married Papianilla, herself clarissima femina, born ca 415, a niece of Emperor Avitus and the first cousin of another Papianilla, wife of Sidonius Apollinaris,[7] and they had many children, among whom Tonantius Ferreolus.[8] She was a partner who shared his troubles, according to Sidonius.[9] Tonantius Ferreolus had at least three sons: Tonantius Ferreolus who was a Gallo Roman Senator at Narbonne, Ruricius who became Bishop of Uzes between Probatius and Firminus and at least one son whose name is not attested. It is not known whether he had any daughters or whether more than these two sons survived to adulthood.[10][11]
  
  He had issue:
  
  Tonantius Ferreolus (senator)
  
  Unattested son.
  
  Unattested daughter married to Aspasius of Auch.
  
  Ruricius (d. 506, 507 or shortly after 507), Bishop of Uzès. He was called Bishop of Uzes in the Life of Firminus [12] and based on the existence of "Ruricius of Uzes" of the Life of Firminus, Dr. David Kelley postulated that "Ruricius of Uzes" was a brother of Tonantius, a son of Papianilla, wife of the elder Tonantius and that Ruricius of Limoges was her brother and Tonantius' uncle. This is still the position of a significant number of researchers [13] however Mathisen [14] and Settipani [15] have concluded that the octogenarian Bishop Ruricius referred to in the Life of Firminus is in fact Ruricius of Limoges. Settipani has suggested that Papianilla was the sister of Hiberia, wife of Ruricius of Limoges and daughter of Gallo Roman Senator Ommatius of Clermont [16] Given that a Ferreolus would succeed Ruricius and his descendants to the Episcopal chair of Limoges and commission the epitaphs of Ruricius I and II (hence he was a kinsman and probably a descendant),[17] it is likely there are aspects of the relationship between the Ruriciids and Ferreoli that are not yet explained by either theory.

• (Voorouders) .

  prefect van Gallië vanaf 451, gezien het jaartal een kritiek moment om de verantwoording van Gallië te verwerven, nam deel aan het verzet tegen Attila en was daarna in 469 deel van een missie van senatoren naar Rome en verwierf daar veel waardering voor zijn verdiensten, aan het einde van zijn leven wijdde hij zich aan de kerk zonder dat ergens beschreven werd dat hij de tonsuur nam, Sidonius Apollinarius beschreef de familie der Ferréols uitgebreid en wist verder te vermelden dat zij vele patriciërs onder hun voorouders hadden met uitgebreide landgoederen bij Nîmes en Rodez, van zijn echtgenote Papianille had hij meerdere zonen waarvan er maar één genoemd werd: Tonance,

• He died in the year 474, he was 69 years old.
• A child of Ferreolus van Rome and Syagria Clarissima Femina
• This information was last updated on January 18, 2013.

Household of Tonantius Ferreolus "de oude" van Rome

He is married to Papinilla van Rome.

They got marriedSource 3

Child(ren):

1. NN van Rome  
2. Tonantius van Rome   
3. Ruricus van Uzes  -> 506
4. Tonance Ferreol II van Narbonne  450-517 

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