Petronius Probinus ('' fl.'' 341346 AD) was an aristocrat and statesman of the

Roman Empire The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post- Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediter ...

. He was

Roman consul A consul held the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic ( to 27 BC), and ancient Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the ''cursus honorum'' (an ascending sequence of public offices to which politic ...

in the year 341 and ''

praefectus urbi The ''praefectus urbanus'', also called ''praefectus urbi'' or urban prefect in English, was prefect of the city of Rome, and later also of Constantinople. The office originated under the Roman kings, continued during the Republic and Empire, an ...

'' of Rome from July 345 to December 346.

Biography

Probinus was the son of Petronius Probianus, a consul and praefectus urbi, and was from the '' gens'' Petronia, an influential

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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 Faltonia Betitia Proba (c. AD 306/315 – c. 353/366) was a Latin Roman Christian poet, perhaps the earliest female Christian poet whose work survives. A member of one of the most influential aristocratic families, she composed the '' Cento Ver ...

, one of the most influential

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Christian poets during

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.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 Sextus Claudius Petronius Probus ( 358–390) was a leading Roman aristocrat of the later 4th century AD, renowned for his wealth, power and social connections. The son of the consul Petronius Probinus, he married Anicia Faltonia Proba and h ...

, consul in 371 and four-time '' Praetorian prefect''. His grandchildren include

Anicius Probinus Anicius Probinus ( 395–397) was a politician and aristocrat of the Roman Empire. Biography A member of the noble gens Anicia, Probinus was the son of Sextus Claudius Petronius Probus, one of the most influential men of his era and consul in ...

and

Anicius Hermogenianus Olybrius Anicius Hermogenianus Olybrius ( 395–397) was a politician and aristocrat of the Roman Empire. Life Olybrius was a son of Sextus Petronius Probus, one of the most influential men of his era and consul in 371, and wife and cousin Anicia Faltonia ...

consuls of 395, and the consul of 406, Anicius Probus. The aristocrat Anicia Faltonia Proba 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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Petronius Probinus 4th-century Romans Imperial Roman consuls Urban prefects of Rome Petronii