Anastasius (consul 517)
Eastern Roman Empire.
Life
Anastasius was the son of
Sabinian, consul in 505, and of a niece of emperor Anastasius I, making him the emperor's grandnephew. He may have been the brother of Flavius Anastasius Paulus Probus Moschianus Probus Magnus, consul in 518. He was married to the Empress Theodora's illegitimate daughter, whose name has not survived. They had one son, Anastasius, who married Juliana, the daughter of Probus (consul 525)
.
He held the consulship for the year 517. His
comes domesticorum
equitum.
Sources
- Croke, Brian (2001), Count Marcellinus and His Chronicle, Oxford University Press, p. 89.
- The Prosopography of the Later Roman EmpireII, Cambridge University Press,, pp. 82–83.