Quintus Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius

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Quintus Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius (born ca 335 - died 380), was the Consul of Rome in 379 with Decimus Magnus Ausonius. He was the son of Clodius Celsinus Adelphus, Prefect of Rome. Hermogenianus was also known as Claudius Pontius Petronius Probus of Limoges.

He married before 365 to Turrenia Anicia Juliana or Anicia Faltonia Proba (ca 345 or 360 – 410 or 432), daughter of Anicius Auchenius Bassus, Prefect of Rome in 382 and Consul of Rome in 408, and wife Turrenia Honorata, and a descendant of the Amnii, the Pincii and the Anicii, and they had three children:

• Anicia, married before 390 to Pontius (born ca 360), the son of (Pontius) Paulinus, Nobleman at Bordeaux, then Burdigala, the parents of Hermogenianus and Adelphius, Bishop of Limoges
• Anicia Faltonia Proba (born ca 365), married to her first cousin once removed on her father's side Sextus Claudius Petronius Probus, holder of an administrative post in Africa, Prefect of Illyricum in 364, Prefect of Gaul in 366, Prefect of Italy in 368 – 375 and again in 383 and Consul of Rome in 371, by whom she had two sons, Probinus and Olybrius, one of them the father of Petronius Maximus
• Flavius Anicius Hermogenianus Olybrius (born ca 365), Consul of Rome in 395 (this is his grandson, not his son)

[edit] Sources

• Christian Settipani, Les Ancêtres de Charlemagne (France: Éditions Christian, 1989).
• Christian Settipani, Continuité gentilice et continuité familiale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l’époque impériale: mythe et réalité, Prosopographica et Genealogica vol. 2 (Linacre College, Oxford, 2000), Addenda et Corrigenda