Tonantius Ferreolus (senator)

Tonantius Ferreolus (also called Tonance Ferréol) (440 or say 450 – 511 or after 517), "Vir clarissimus" between 507 and 511, was a Roman Senator who lived in Narbonne, then Narbo, and a Senator of Narbonne between 479 and 517. He was also present and seen at Rome in 469 and 475 and was known to be a friend and relative of Sidonius Apollinaris. He was the son of Tonantius Ferreolus and wife Papianilla. His wife's name was thought to have been lost to the ages but, according to the reference below she was Industria of Narbonne, then "Narbo", born ca 450 or 465, whom he married before 475, daughter of Flavius Probus, Roman Senator, and wife Eulalia (?) (a german cousin of Sidonius Apollinaris).

Tonantius Ferreolus was a witness when Sidonius Apollinaris, then bishop of Clermont, between 461 and 467, sent a letter to his friend, Donidius, describing a visit he made, a "most delightful time in the most beautiful country in the company of Tonantius Ferreolus (the elder) and Apollinaris, the most charming hosts in the world". He was on the estates of his father when Sidonius Appolinarius visited between 461 and 467. As Sidonius relates, "at Prusianum, as the other (estate) is called, (the young) Tonantius and his brothers turned out of their beds for us because we could not be always dragging our gear about: they are surely the elect among the nobles of our own age".

He was visited by his cousin St. Apollinaris of Valence in 517.

Issue

* Ferreolus, Senator of Narbonne, father of the Gallo-Roman Senator Ansbertus
* Ruricius (d. 506, 507 or shortly after 507), Bishop of Uzès
* Firminus, Bishop of Uzès in 507 (ca 490 – 538, 551 or October 11, 553), Feast Day October 11
* Fadentius, the father of St. Ferreolus, Bishop of Uzès (553 ; January 4, 581), Feast Day January 4, and Saint Tarsicia of Rodez (died ca 600), Feast Day January 15

References and sources

* "The Royal Ancestry Bible Royal Ancestors of 300 Colonial American Families" by Michel L. Call (chart 2074) ISBN 1-933194-22-7
* "New England Historic and Genealogical Register" 101:112
* Sidonius Apollinaris, The Letters of Sidonius (Oxford: Clarendon, 1915), pp. clx-clxxxiii
* Christian Settipani, Les Ancêtres de Charlemagne (France: Éditions Christian, 1989).
* 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).

ee also

* Descent from antiquity