Abt 420 - Aft 475 (56 years)
Has 2 ancestors and 2 descendants in this family tree.
Abt 432 - Yes, date unknown
Birth |
Abt 432 |
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Father |
Marcus Maecilius Avitus, b. Abt 400, Auvergne, France |
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Family |
Sidonius Apollinaris, b. Abt 5 Nov 430, Lugdunum |
Married |
452 |
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Abt 430 - 489 (58 years)
Birth |
Abt 5 Nov 430 |
Lugdunum |
Died |
Aug 489 |
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Father |
Apollinaris, b. Abt 405 |
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Family |
Papianilla, b. Abt 432 |
Married |
452 |
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Abt 420 - Aft 475 (56 years)
Birth |
Abt 420 |
Died |
Aft 475 |
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Father |
Marcus Maecilius Avitus, b. Abt 400, Auvergne, France |
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Children |
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440 - Aft 507 (68 years)
Birth |
440 |
Died |
Aft 507 |
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Father |
Marcus Maecilius Avitus, b. Abt 400, Auvergne, France |
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Children |
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Abt 400 - Aft 456 (56 years)
Birth |
Abt 400 |
Auvergne, France |
Died |
Aft 17 Oct 456 |
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Father |
Agricola |
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Children |
| 1. Papianilla, b. Abt 432 |
+ | 2. Ecdicius Avitus, b. Abt 420 |
+ | 3. Agricola, b. 440 |
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- Yes, date unknown
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Father |
Ecdicius Avitus, b. Abt 420 |
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Children |
| 1. Archbishop Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, b. Abt 494 |
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Name |
Ecdicius Avitus |
Birth |
Abt 420 |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
Aft 475 |
Siblings |
2 Siblings |
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Person ID |
I668943 |
Geneagraphie |
Last Modified |
8 Nov 2009 |
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Notes |
- magister militum
was educated at Augustonemetum (modern Clermont-Ferrand ), where he lived and owned some land. In the 460s he was one of the richest and most important persons in the western Empire and he was present at the court of Anthemius until 469.
Ecdicius and his brother-in-law Sidonius Apollinaris , the Bishop of Clermont , took charge of the defence of the Auvergne between 471 and 474 against the aggression of the Visigoths . The Visigothic king Euric besieged many cities, but Ecdicius, with a private army of horsemen paid for out of his own wealth, brought provisions to those cities, lifted their sieges, and fed a multitude of poor. According to legend, Ecdicius private warband consisted of only ten or eighteen men.
Ecdicius also obtained the submission of Chilperic II of Burgundy on behalf of the Empire.
In 471 Anthemius sent an army into Gaul under the command of his son Anthemiolus to attack the Visigoths, but he was defeated near Arles and in 473 the Visigoths had captured Arles and Marseille and were threatening Italia itself. Ecdicius, elevated to the rank of patrician by the new emperor Julius Nepos and invested with the title magister militum praesentialis, had just begun the fight to remove the Visigoths from Provence when, in 475, he was recalled to Italy by Julius and Flavius Orestes was sent in his place in Gaul. The emperor then promptly exchanged the Auvergne for Provence and gave the Visigoths what they had long been requesting.
Ecdicius probably fled the Auvergne and took refuge among the Burgundians after that. Some letters of Cassiodorus (Epistulae 2.4, 22) suggest that he survived into the early years of the sixth century. He was the father of Avitus of Vienne .
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