The Syagrii were an aristocratic family in
late antique
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Gaul
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during the fourth and fifth centuries. The family was particularly associated with
Gallia Lugdunensis
() was a province of the Roman Empire in what is now the modern country of France, part of the Celtic territory of Gaul formerly known as Celtica. It is named after its capital Lugdunum (today's Lyon), possibly Roman Europe's major city west of ...
(Lyons), and their
family seat
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was located in the area of
Augustodunum
Autun () is a subprefecture of the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of central-eastern France. It was founded during the Principate era of the early Roman Empire by Emperor Augustus as Augustodunum to give a Rom ...
(Autun).
Important members of the family were:
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Flavius Syagrius,
Consul
Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states thro ...
in 381.
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Afranius Syagrius, Consul in 382
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Aegidius
Aegidius (died 464 or 465) was the ruler of the short-lived Kingdom of Soissons from 461 to 464/465. Before his ascension he was an ardent supporter of the Western Roman emperor Majorian, who appointed him '' magister militum per Gallias'' (" ...
, magister militum per Gallias under Majorian from 458, and ruler of the Roman
rump state
A rump state is the remnant of a once much larger state that was reduced in the wake of secession, annexation, occupation, decolonization, a successful coup d'état or revolution on part of its former territory. In the last case, a government st ...
of
Soissons
Soissons () is a commune in the northern French department of Aisne, in the region of Hauts-de-France. Located on the river Aisne, about northeast of Paris, it is one of the most ancient towns of France, and is probably the ancient capital ...
(Noviodunum) from 461 to his death in 464 or 465.
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Syagrius
Syagrius (c. 430 – 486 or 487 or 493–4) was a Roman general and the last ruler of a Western Roman rump state in northern Gaul, now called the Kingdom of Soissons. Gregory of Tours referred to him as King of the Romans. Syagrius's defeat by K ...
, son of the preceding, Roman general and ruler of the rump state of Soissons from 464 to 486.
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Desideratus of Verdun (d. 554), bishop of Verdun and father of Syagrius of Autun.
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Syagrius of Autun, Bishop of Autun (d. 600)
["Although Syagrius was almost certainly a member of one of the most distinguished families of southern Gaul, the Syagrii, a precise genealogy has never been worked out for its numerous members;"] son of
Desideratus of Verdun.
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Sigrada of Alsace, (d. 689) mother of
Count Warin of Poitiers
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Ancient Roman families
French families
Roman Gaul