Petronius Probinus (''
fl.
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'' 341346 AD) was an aristocrat and statesman of the
Roman Empire. He was
Roman consul in the year 341 and ''
praefectus urbi'' of Rome from July 345 to December 346.
Biography
Probinus was the son of
Petronius Probianus
Petronius Probianus ( 315–331 AD) was a politician of the Roman Empire.
Life
Probianus was a member of the '' Petronii Probi'', a family of the senatorial aristocracy. He was the son of Pompeius Probus, consul in 310, the father of Petroniu ...
, a consul and praefectus urbi, and was from the ''
gens
In ancient Rome, a gens ( or , ; plural: ''gentes'' ) was a family consisting of individuals who shared the same Roman naming conventions#Nomen, nomen and who claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a ''stirps'' (p ...
'' Petronia, an influential
patrician family that provided several high-ranking officers for the imperial administration between the
4th and
5th centuries AD. Probinus himself was consul in 341 and ''praefectus urbi'' of Rome from July 5, 345, to December 26, 346.
His wife was, according to Drinkwater and Elton,
[John Drinkwater and Hugh Elton, ''Fifth-century Gaul: A Crisis of Identity?'' (1992), page 112.] "Claudia"/"Clodia", a sister of
Clodius Celsinus Adelphus,
[Anthony Wagner, op. cit. Pedigree 22, page 180] who in turn was married to his sister
Faltonia Betitia Proba, one of the most influential
Roman Christian
Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρι ...
poets during
Late Antiquity.
[Anthony Wagner, "Pedigree and Progress - Essays in the genealogical interpretation of history, Phillimore, London, (1975) Pedigree 22, page 180]
Issue
He had a son,
Sextus Claudius Petronius Probus, consul in 371 and four-time ''
Praetorian prefect
The praetorian prefect ( la, praefectus praetorio, el, ) was a high office in the Roman Empire. Originating as the commander of the Praetorian Guard, the office gradually acquired extensive legal and administrative functions, with its holders be ...
''. His grandchildren include
Anicius Probinus and
Anicius Hermogenianus Olybrius consuls of 395, and the consul of 406,
Anicius Probus Anicius Probus (''fl''. 459) was a Roman politician.
A Christians, Christian, he is attested in an inscription dated to 30 August 459, found in Aquileia, but now lost; it was the inscription on the tomb of Anicia Ulfina (emended in Iuliana by recen ...
. The aristocrat
Anicia Faltonia Proba Anicia Faltonia Proba (died in Africa, 432) was a Roman noblewoman of the ''gens'' Anicia.
Biography
Proba's father was Quintus Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius (consul in 379); the famous poet Faltonia Betitia Proba was her grandmother. She marri ...
was his grand-niece - and his daughter in law.
Notes
Sources
* Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, "Petronius Probinus 2", ''Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'', Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, 1992, , p. 735.
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