Felix (consul 428)
Aetius. For his consulate in 428 he issued some consular diptychs, one of which has been preserved until modern times.
Felix served during the reign of emperors
Aetius were considered more significant in this regard.[2] In 426 he ordered the death of Patroclus, bishop of Arelate
, and of Titus, deacon in Rome.
When Bonifacius revolted in Northern Africa in 427, Felix sent some troops to this province commanded by three generals: Mavortius, Gallio and Sanoeces. This force was defeated by the troops loyal to Bonifacius.[3] Afther this Felix sent a new force to Africa under the command of the Gothic general Sigisvult.
In 428 he was elected consul for the West. In May 430, Felix, his wife Padusia and a deacon named Grunnitus were murdered in
Basilica Ursiana in Ravenna for reasons that are not clear.[4] Priscus suggests Felix was accused of plotting against Aetius with the emperor's mother Galla Placidia and was killed by order of Aetius himself.[5]
His
lost.[6]
According to a recent reconstruction of his familial bonds, he was an ancestor of
Ennodius. Born about 380 he might have been the man who was the husband of a daughter (born 385) of Agricola, consul in 421 and perhaps the father of Emperor Avitus, being the parents of Magnus, consul in 460 and Felix Ennodius, proconsul in Africa in about 420 or 423.[7]
References
- ^ Bagnall, 1987
- ^ Bury, John Bagnall (1923). History of the Later Roman Empire. Macmillan. pp. 240ff. Retrieved 2007-05-07.
- ^ Adrian Goldsworthy, The Fall of the West: The Slow Death of the Roman Superpower, Orion Books Ltd, London. Paperback Edition, 2010, p.328.
- ISBN 9780199664818.
- ^ John of Antioch, fragment 201.3; translated by C.D Gordon, The Age of Attila: Fifth Century Byzantium and the Barbarians (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1966), p. 50
- ^ Kunz, George Frederick (1916). Ivory and the Elephant in Art, in Archaeology, and in Science. Doubleday.
- ^ 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).
Bibliography
- ISBN 978-0-521-20159-9.
- ISBN 1-55540-099-X.
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