Flavius Afrianus Syagrius 
Flavius Afrianus was born in of Lyons, Gaul. He died after 0382. He was buried after 0382.General Notes
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[1150191.ged]
[SUSANNA KEENE.FTW]
Gallo-Roman Consul.
Buried beneath an imposing monument at the city gate of Lyons.
Gallo-Roman Senator at Lyons, i.e. of paternal Roman descent.
Proconsul Africae, Magister Officiorium.
Praetorium Prefect of the West.
Praefectus Urbis Romae
Selected by the emperor Gratian as Consul (serving with
Antonius).
Praefectus Praetorio Italiae
A poet. A statue of him was erected in Lyons.
Buried "not quite a full bowshot" from the church at Lyons.
REF: Don Stone (a contributor to soc.genealogy.medieval):
Settipani (1989) is the principal authority for this chart
(from Flavius Afranius Syagrius to Charlemagne). A number of
years ago Kelley (1947) investigated the connection with
Syagrius in detail, utilizing a ninth-century pedigree of
Charlemagne (but rejecting its clearly incorrect claim that St.
Arnulf, Bishop of Metz, was the son of Arnoald, Bishop of Metz)
and also drawing on various saints' lives. (Kelley now concurs
with Settipani's revised version of this pedigree.) Jarnut
(1986, pp. 14-22) has also explored this connection. Flavius
was the given name, Afranius was the family name, and Syagrius
was a cognomen meaning "wild boar" (Moriarty, 1956). See,
however, Bagnall, et al. (1987, pp. 36, ff.), on the use
of the name Flavius as a courtesy title. There were two
different consuls named Syagrius in two successive years,
381and 382. The consul of 381 was a friend and correspondent
of Symmachus, the noted orator and vigorous defender of the
pagan religion. The consul of 382 was probably the one who was
the maternal grandfather of Tonantius Ferreolus; he may also
have been the Syagrius who was a pupil and friend of the poet
Ausonius. Ausonius was the head of a famous school at
Bordeaux, was selected by emperor Valentinian as tutor for his
son (the future emperor) Gratian, and was prefect of the Gauls
in 378 and consul in 379 under Gratian; a number of his
relatives and friends held various high imperial offices (Van
Dam, 1985, p. 304). Each of these two Syagrii held a number of
offices besides consul, and determining which office goes
with which Syagrius is somewhat difficult. A relatively
plausible scenario is given in Jones, et al. (1971), following
Martindale (1967). Demandt (1971) proposes a somewhat
different assignment of offices to the Syagrii, but later
reviews (e. g., Bagnall, et al., 1987, p. 649, and Errington,
1992, note 109) point out that Demandt probably misinterpreted
a comment of Mitteis, an earlier researcher. The office of
consul had great prestige and was eagerly sought by Roman
citizens. In the second half of the fourth century it was
usually attained as the culmination of a distinguished career
(Bagnall, et al., 1987, p. 3); at this
time it was largely an honorary office with minimal political
responsibilities.[Direct Linage1.FTW]
[JamesLinage.GED]
[1150191.ged]
[SUSANNA KEENE.FTW]
Gallo-Roman Consul.
Buried beneath an imposing monument at the city gate of Lyons.
Gallo-Roman Senator at Lyons, i.e. of paternal Roman descent.
Proconsul Africae, Magister Officiorium.
Praetorium Prefect of the West.
Praefectus Urbis Romae
Selected by the emperor Gratian as Consul (serving with
Antonius).
Praefectus Praetorio Italiae
A poet. A statue of him was erected in Lyons.
Buried "not quite a full bowshot" from the church at Lyons.
REF: Don Stone (a contributor to soc.genealogy.medieval):
Settipani (1989) is the principal authority for this chart
(from Flavius Afranius Syagrius to Charlemagne). A number of
years ago Kelley (1947) investigated the connection with
Syagrius in detail, utilizing a ninth-century pedigree of
Charlemagne (but rejecting its clearly incorrect claim that St.
Arnulf, Bishop of Metz, was the son of Arnoald, Bishop of Metz)
and also drawing on various saints' lives. (Kelley now concurs
with Settipani's revised version of this pedigree.) Jarnut
(1986, pp. 14-22) has also explored this connection. Flavius
was the given name, Afranius was the family name, and Syagrius
was a cognomen meaning "wild boar" (Moriarty, 1956). See,
however, Bagnall, et al. (1987, pp. 36, ff.), on the use
of the name Flavius as a courtesy title. There were two
different consuls named Syagrius in two successive years,
381and 382. The consul of 381 was a friend and correspondent
of Symmachus, the noted orator and vigorous defender of the
pagan religion. The consul of 382 was probably the one who was
the maternal grandfather of Tonantius Ferreolus; he may also
have been the Syagrius who was a pupil and friend of the poet
Ausonius. Ausonius was the head of a famous school at
Bordeaux, was selected by emperor Valentinian as tutor for his
son (the future emperor) Gratian, and was prefect of the Gauls
in 378 and consul in 379 under Gratian; a number of his
relatives and friends held various high imperial offices (Van
Dam, 1985, p. 304). Each of these two Syagrii held a number of
offices besides consul, and determining which office goes
with which Syagrius is somewhat difficult. A relatively
plausible scenario is given in Jones, et al. (1971), following
Martindale (1967). Demandt (1971) proposes a somewhat
different assignment of offices to the Syagrii, but later
reviews (e. g., Bagnall, et al., 1987, p. 649, and Errington,
1992, note 109) point out that Demandt probably misinterpreted
a comment of Mitteis, an earlier researcher. The office of
consul had great prestige and was eagerly sought by Roman
citizens. In the second half of the fourth century it was
usually attained as the culmination of a distinguished career
(Bagnall, et al., 1987, p. 3); at this
time it was largely an honorary office with minimal political
responsibilities.
He had a biological daughter named Flavia.
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