Reparatus (died 539) was a Roman aristocrat, and politician under
Ostrogothic rule. He held the offices of
Urban prefect (527) and
Praetorian prefect of Italy.
Reparatus was the brother of
Pope Vigilius; according to the ''
Liber pontificalis
The ''Liber Pontificalis'' (Latin for 'pontifical book' or ''Book of the Popes'') is a book of biographies of popes from Saint Peter until the 15th century. The original publication of the ''Liber Pontificalis'' stopped with Pope Adrian II (867� ...
'', their father was Johannes and identified as a
consul having received that title from the emperor. He was one of the
senator
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...
s taken hostage by
Witigis
Vitiges or Vitigis or Witiges (died 542) was king of Ostrogothic Italy from 536 to 540.
He succeeded to the throne of Italy in the early stages of the Gothic War of 535–554, as Belisarius had quickly captured Sicily the previous year an ...
in November/December 536, but managed to escape along with his fellow senator Vergentius (also known as Bergantinus) before the Ostrogoths ordered their slaughter in Spring 537, only to be trapped in
Milan during the siege of that city in Summer 538 to March 539. While Reparatus was killed when the city fell, Vergentius managed to escape with his life and left Italy for
Constantinople.
Responsibility for Reparatus' fatherless children fell to their uncle the Pope. Pope Vigilius married his niece, Vigilia, to
Turcius Rufius Apronianus Asterius, the consul of 494, and provided for his nephew Rusticus by ordaining him as a deacon in the Roman church.
[Richards, ''Popes and the Papacy'', p. 241]
References
539 deaths
6th-century Italo-Roman people
People of the Ostrogothic Kingdom
Praetorian prefects of Italy
Year of birth unknown
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