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Personal data Papianilla of Nimes 

  • She was born.
  • Profession: clarissima femina.

Household of Papianilla of Nimes

She is married to Tonantius Ferreolus-praetorian Prefect of Gaul.

They got married.


Child(ren):



Notes about Papianilla of Nimes

Papianilla, clarissima femina. According to https://www.geni.com/people/Saint-Sidonius-Apollinarius-Bishop-of-Clermont/6000000009437556787" data-template="hover.profile" data-skin="hovercard" data-position="topleft" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-show-delay="800" data-remote-params="{id:6000000009437556787}">Sidonius, a contemporary source, Ferreolus' wife was a partner to her husband and shared his troubles.

Her ancestry is uncertain. She was probably a relative of another https://www.geni.com/people/Papianilla/6000000001353843878" data-template="hover.profile" data-skin="hovercard" data-position="topleft" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-show-delay="800" data-remote-params="{id:6000000001353843878}">Papianilla, wife of https://www.geni.com/people/Saint-Sidonius-Apollinarius-Bishop-of-Clermont/6000000009437556787" data-template="hover.profile" data-skin="hovercard" data-position="topleft" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-show-delay="800" data-remote-params="{id:6000000009437556787}">Sidonius Apollinaris. Therefore, according to Settipani she was most probably a niece of Avitus (1989 and 1991, pp. 198-9). However, Harries says she was a generation older, perhaps a sister or cousin of Avitus (1994, p.34, n. 30), while Mommaerts and Kelley suggest she might have been a generationyounger (1992, pp. 112-13).

In Settipani's reconstruction she was a granddaughter of https://www.geni.com/people/Pontius-Anicilus/6000000000316672378" data-template="hover.profile" data-skin="hovercard" data-position="topleft" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-show-delay="800" data-remote-params="{id:6000000000316672378}">Pontius Anicilus, either through his son https://www.geni.com/people/Adelphius-bishop-of-Limoges/6000000000316609610" data-template="hover.profile"data-skin="hovercard" data-position="topleft" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-show-delay="800" data-remote-params="{id:6000000000316609610}">Adelphius, bishop of Limoges or his son https://www.geni.com/people/Hermogenianus/6000000000316685236" data-template="hover.profile" data-skin="hovercard" data-position="topleft" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-show-delay="800" data-remote-params="{id:6000000000316685236}">Hermogenianus, one of whom married a sister of Avitus whose name is reconstructed as https://www.geni.com/people/Eparchia/6000000003827918217" data-template="hover.profile" data-skin="hovercard" data-position="topleft" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-show-delay="800" data-remote-params="{id:6000000003827918217}">Eparchia.

According to some, she was the daughter of https://www.geni.com/people/Zeno-Eastern-Roman-Emperor/6000000002106208023" data-template="hover.profile" data-skin="hovercard" data-position="topleft" data-remote-data="/profile/hovercard" data-offset-x="-10" data-offset-y="-10" data-show-delay="800" data-remote-params="{id:6000000002106208023}">Zénon l'Isaurien, Commander of theArmy of the Eastern Empire and later Eastern emperor. Her marriage, in which Emperor Avitus had served as an intermediary, was celebrated in Constantinople and everyone tried to hide the family of his new wife from Tonance. By bringing Papinianille to Narbonne and Arles, Tonance had introduced into the house of his father a Nestorian heretic.

Sources

  • 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).

According to the Wikipedia page of her husband, Tonantius Ferreolus I (Prefect):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonantius_Ferreolus_%28prefect%29" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonantius_Ferreolus_(prefect)

He married Papianilla, clarissima femina, born ca 415, a niece of Emperor Avitus (and as such would be the granddaughter of Flavius Julius Agricola, b. c365, Consul of Rome in 421, but uncertain if he is a paternal or maternal grandfather) and the first cousin of another Papianilla, wife of Sidonius Apollinaris, and they had many children, among whom Tonantius Ferreolus. She was a partner who shared his troubles, according to Sidonius.

According to her Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papianilla_%28wife_of_Tonantius_Ferreolus%29" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papianilla_(wife_of_Tonantius_Ferreolus)

Papianilla was a Roman noblewoman

 

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