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Flavius Anicius Olybrius

Male Abt 430 - 472  (42 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Flavius Anicius Olybrius  
    Birth Abt 430 
    Gender Male 
    Death 2 Nov 472 
    Siblings 1 Sibling 
    Person ID I250899  Geneagraphie | Ahnen BvS
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2010 

    Father Anicius Probus,   b. Abt 405   d. 453 (Age 48 years) 
    Mother Adelphia,   b. Abt 410   d. Aft 459 (Age 50 years) 
    Family ID F229601  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Placidia,   b. 441-442   d. Aft 480 (Age 39 years) 
    Children 
    +1. Anicia Iuliana,   b. 462, Constantinople, Thrace, Byzantium Empire Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 527-528 (Age 66 years)
    Family ID F101582  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2010 

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    • Ks. v. Westrom
      Wassersucht, oström. cos. 464, von Ricimer im Frühjahr 472 zum weström. Kaiser erhoben

      the sack of the city by the Vandal King Geiseric in 455, Olybrius fled to Constantinople , where in 464 he was made Consul , and about the same time ca 454 married Placidia , daughter of Valentinian III and Licinia Eudoxia . This afforded Geiseric, whose son Huneric had married Princess Eudocia , the elder sister of Placidia, the opportunity of claiming the empire of the West for Olybrius. In fact, Geiseric had attempted in 461 and again in 465 to get Olybrius made emperor. He was made Roman Consul in 464.
      In 472 Olybrius was sent to Italy by the emperor Leo I to assist the emperor Anthemius against his son-in-law Ricimer , but, having entered into negotiations with the latter, was himself proclaimed emperor against his will, and on the murder of his rival ascended the throne unopposed. Because of his marriage to Placidia, Olybrius can be considered the last member of the House of Theodosius . His reign was otherwise as uneventful as it was brief. He died of hydropsy later in 472, being the only Emperor of his time to die of natural causes.
      Olybrius was survived by his wife and their daughter, Anicia Juliana . He appears, in a wholly unhistorical light, in the medieval Golden Legend as the persecutor of Saint Margaret the Virgin after she refused to marry him.



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