TheSyagriiwere an aristocratic family inlate antiqueGaulduring the fourth and fifth centuries. The family was particularly associated withGallia Lugdunensis(Lyons), and theirfamily seatwas located in the area ofAugustodunum(Autun).[1]
Important members of the family were:
- Flavius Syagrius,Consulin 381.[2]
- Afranius Syagrius,Consul in 382
- Aegidius,magister militum per Gallias under Majorian from 458, and ruler of the Romanrump stateofSoissons(Noviodunum) from 461 to his death in 464 or 465.
- Syagrius,son of the preceding, Roman general and ruler of the rump state of Soissons from 464 to 486.
- Desideratus of Verdun(d. 554), bishop of Verdun and father of Syagrius of Autun.
- Syagrius of Autun,Bishop of Autun (d. 600)[3]son ofDesideratus of Verdun.
- Sigrada of Alsace,(d. 689) mother ofCount Warin of Poitiers
References
edit- ^Dill, Samuel (1898).Roman Society in the Last Century of the Western Empire.London: Macmillan. p. 168.RetrievedFeb 22,2021.
- ^Clinton, Henry Fynes.Fasti Romani: Appendix. From the death of Augustus to the death of Heraclius.Oxford University Press. p. 124.RetrievedFeb 22,2021.
- ^Halfond, Greg (2012)."All the King's Men: Episcopal Political Loyalties in the Merovingian Kingdoms".Medieval Prosopography.27:76–96.RetrievedFeb 22,2021."Although Syagrius was almost certainly a member of one of the most distinguished families of southern Gaul, the Syagrii, a precise genealogy has never been worked out for its numerous members;"