Petronius Probinus was a Roman aristocrat during the reign of King

Odoacer Odoacer ( – 15 March 493 AD), also spelled Odovacer or Odovacar, was a barbarian soldier and statesman from the Middle Danube who deposed the Western Roman child emperor Romulus Augustulus and became the ruler of Italy (476–493). Odoacer' ...

. He was the Western consul in 489 AD (with Flavius Eusebius as his Eastern colleague) and a prominent supporter of

Antipope Laurentius Laurentius (possibly Caelius) was the Archpriest of Santa Prassede and later antipope of the See of Rome. Elected in 498 at the Basilica Saint Mariae (presumably Saint Maria Maggiore) with the support of a dissenting faction with Byzantine symp ...

. Probinus is believed to be the son of Rufius Achilius Maecius Placidus, consul in 481, and the father of

Rufius Petronius Nicomachus Cethegus Rufius Petronius Nicomachus Cethegus was a politician of Ostrogothic Italy and the Eastern Roman Empire. He was appointed consul for 504 AD, and held the post without a colleague. His father was Petronius Probinus, the consul for 489 and prominent ...

, consul in 504.

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5th-century western Roman consuls Petronii {{AncientRome-bio-stub