• General Notes

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  SOURCE NOTES:
  Kelley, David H, A New Consideration of the Carolingians, NEHGR v101 (1947)
  pp109-112.
  
  Moriarty, G. Andrews, Genealogical Research in Europe, NEHGR v110 (Jan 1956)
  pp38-44.
  
  Moriarty, George Andrews, Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III And Queen
  Philippa.  Salt Lake: Mormon Pioneer Genealogical Society, 1985.  LDS
  Film#0441438.  nypl#ARF-86-2555.
  
  Settipani, Christian, Les Ancetres de Charlemagne, 1989, and, Settipani,
  Christian, and Patrick van Kerrebrouck, La Prehistoire des Capetiens, 1993, as
  transcribed by Gilles Houdry, Aug 1994.  Roots-l genealog.charlanc[1-7]
  
  Stone, Don, From the Consul Syagrius to Charlemagne, Rowan College, NJ:
  author, 1995.  Author address: stone@@elvis.rowan.edu
  
  Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, 6th Edition,
  Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1988.
  RESEARCH NOTES:
  a Gallo-Roman senator, i.e. of paternal Roman descent [Ref: Stone 1995]
  
  364-75: Notary under Emperor Valentian I, who during a ampaigne against
  the Alamanni sent him with dispatches to the Duke Arator. [Ref: Moriarty
  v110p39]
  
  379: Proconsul Africae [Ref: Stone 1995]
  
  Proconsul for Africa, Magister Officiorum of the Palace, and Pretorian
  Prefect in Illyria [Ref: Moriarty v110p39]
  
  Jun 27 380: sole Pretorian Prefect of the West, for Gaul and Italy, a
  triplicate prefecture [Ref: Moriarty v110p39]
  
  381: Praefectus Urbis Romae [Ref: Stone 1995]
  
  381: shortly after Ausonius, he was Consul, with Eucherius, the uncle of
  Theodosius, as his colleague, having the consular authority of the West.
  [Ref: Moriarty v110p39]
  
  382: Consul [Ref: Settipani CharlAnc] selected by the emperor Gratian as
  Consul, serving with Antonius [Ref: Stone 1995]
  
  There were two different consuls names Syagrius in two successive years,
  381 and 382.  The consul of 381 was a friend and correspondent of Symmachus,
  the noted orator and vigorous efender 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 poel Ausonius. Each of these two Syagrii held a number of offices besides
  consul, and determining which office goes with which Syagrius is somewhat
  difficult [Ref: Stone 1995]
  
  appears to have been a close relative of the Syagrius, who was Consul in
  382, and who was perhaps allied to the imperial family [Ref: Moriarty v110p39]
  
  382: Praefectus Praetorio Italiae [Ref: Stone 1995]
  
  Gallo-Roman Consul 381 [Ref: Weis AR #180]
  
  buried beneath an imposing monument at the city gate of Lyons, and a
  statue of him was erected in the city [Ref: Stone 1995]
  
  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; at this time it was largely an
  honorary office with minimal political responsibilities.  Description of
  duties: The old capital, Rome, retains its Senate, over which the consuls
  preside; that of Constantinople has a pro-consul for its presiding officer.
  The Emperor selects these functionaries, and makes known his choice to the
  magistrates and the cities by sending out ivory tablets which bear the
  likeness of the consuls and their names; this is necessary since these names
  serve to date all legal acts, whether public or private.  These successors of
  the great consuls of the Republic still had their curule chairs, their purple
  robes embroidered with silk and gold, their gilded slippers, their lictors and
  rods surmounted by axes which were no longer used; and on the first of January
  they solemnly entered upon their office by going to the Forum, where they
  enfranchised a slave, and then to the circus, where they gave the signal for
  the games to begin. [Ref: Stone 1995]
  
  Family name of Afranius inducates descent from the Afranii, but exact
  descent is not known.  The Afranii appear early in South Eastern Gaul,
  several appearing in the first century.  In the year 51 Sextus Afranius
  of Vaisson (near Orange) was Pretorian Prefect.  In the third century
  Afranius Hannibalianus was Pretorian Prefect in the time of the Emperor
  Probus (276-282), Consul in 292, and Prefect of Rome in 297. [Ref: Moriarty
  v110p39]
  SOURCE NOTES:
  date: after 382 [Ref: Moriarty p7] consul in 382 [Ref: Stone 1995]

Details of Flavius Afranius' family