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Rusticiania

Legg inn av Doug Smith » 22 aug 2004 18:37:14

Hi all

Christian Settipani, in his Additions and corrections to "Continuite
gentilice et continuite familiale dans les familles senatoriale
Romaines a l'epoque imperiale" which is available online, has an
interesting hypothetical stemma on pps 81-82. The stemma shows Apion
II, consul in 539 (525-578/9)as son of Leontia and Strategius I. His
first wife is not identified. She is called nn ill. fem., consul fem.?

Pope Gregory the Great(540-604)wrote series of epistles to one
Rusticiana, patrician. See Book II, epistle 27, IV.46, VIII.2, XI.44,
XIII.22. These letters identify her as having (by birth or marriage)
the following children: Appios Eusebia Eudoxius and Gregoria. Appios
and Eusebia where apparently married and had a son Strategios as well
as daughters based on the letters. Eudoxius and Gregoria may also have
been married so only two of the four appear to have been her children
by birth.

Rusticiania as a name brings to mind the Bishops of Lyon and Clermont,
of course. Also, there was an earlier Rusticiania, wife of Q. Aurelius
Symmachius Eusebius, consul 391.

It would appear possible that the unidentified first wife of Apion II
might be the Eusebia daughter of Rusticiania. This would fit nicely
in the stemma with the known individuals. Obviously proof is needed.
This would have Eusebia born 530 and therefore Rusticiania born before
515. She was a widow in the letters and had apparently moved from Rome
to Constantinople.

Does anyone have any thoughts or evidence about this family?


Doug Smith

Doug Smith

Re: Rusticiania

Legg inn av Doug Smith » 22 aug 2004 23:53:16

alden@mindspring.com (Doug Smith) wrote in message news:<4fad4bf0.0408220837.742a4516@posting.google.com>...
Hi all

Christian Settipani, in his Additions and corrections to "Continuite
gentilice et continuite familiale dans les familles senatoriale
Romaines a l'epoque imperiale" which is available online, has an
interesting hypothetical stemma on pps 81-82. The stemma shows Apion
II, consul in 539 (525-578/9)as son of Leontia and Strategius I. His
first wife is not identified. She is called nn ill. fem., consul fem.?

Pope Gregory the Great(540-604)wrote series of epistles to one
Rusticiana, patrician. See Book II, epistle 27, IV.46, VIII.2, XI.44,
XIII.22. These letters identify her as having (by birth or marriage)
the following children: Appios Eusebia Eudoxius and Gregoria. Appios
and Eusebia where apparently married and had a son Strategios as well
as daughters based on the letters. Eudoxius and Gregoria may also have
been married so only two of the four appear to have been her children
by birth.

Rusticiania as a name brings to mind the Bishops of Lyon and Clermont,
of course. Also, there was an earlier Rusticiania, wife of Q. Aurelius
Symmachius Eusebius, consul 391.

It would appear possible that the unidentified first wife of Apion II
might be the Eusebia daughter of Rusticiania. This would fit nicely
in the stemma with the known individuals. Obviously proof is needed.
This would have Eusebia born 530 and therefore Rusticiania born before
515. She was a widow in the letters and had apparently moved from Rome
to Constantinople.

Does anyone have any thoughts or evidence about this family?


Doug Smith


The following appears to relate to this Rusticiana (excuse the bad
machine translation):

Rusticiana ,* in aristokratischer Roman family, verh. with
distinguished, but in particular well-known man, Patricia, does not
have possession on Sicilies and in Italy, nut/mother and others from
Eusebia 2 , 594 Pilgerin to Palestine and Egypt, lives 598 in
Konstantinopel, Adressatin of letters Pope Gregors of the large one,
in which it concerns among other things the well-being of the
daughters of the Italica and the Venantius 2, donates ransom for
prisoner, Adressatin of a poem of the Orators Andreas to the virgin
Maria,(+ after 603). Konstantinopel PLRE 3, 2, S. 1101f.

Doug

Doug Smith

Re: Rusticiania

Legg inn av Doug Smith » 24 aug 2004 19:36:43

Update:

Eusebia daughter of Rusticiana was the wife of Appion III on the same
chart not Appion II as I proposed. See Walter E. Kaegi, Heraclius of
Byzantium, Cambridge, 2003, p. 38, footnote 50. The chart does not
identify the wife of Appion III.

Doug Smith

Doug Smith

Re: Rusticiania

Legg inn av Doug Smith » 25 aug 2004 23:29:30

alden@mindspring.com (Doug Smith) wrote in message news:<4fad4bf0.0408240936.280008cc@posting.google.com>...
Update:

Eusebia daughter of Rusticiana was the wife of Appion III on the same
chart not Appion II as I proposed. See Walter E. Kaegi, Heraclius of
Byzantium, Cambridge, 2003, p. 38, footnote 50. The chart does not
identify the wife of Appion III.

Doug Smith

Interestingly enough, Pope Gregory's Epistle XLIV to Rusticiana refers
to a letters of hers delivered by "my son, the magnificent lord
Symmachus" indicating that she may have been kin to this Symmachus and
possibly to the Rusticiana married to Q. Aurelius Symmachus (d. ca.
402/410)as I mentioned in an earlier post. This would also likely
make her related to the Rusticiana who married Boethius (d. 524. The
Apiones were clearly involved in Roman politics and married into a
patrician family.

Does anyone know where to find more information on this family?

Doug

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