Flavius Theodorus
Flavius Theodorus was a Roman patrician and consul in the early 6th century AD
Theodorus belonged to the old aristocratic family of the Decier. He was the son of the consul of 480, Caecina Decius Maximus Basilius . After a visit by the Ostrogoth king Theodoric to Rome in 500, Theodorus was appointed by him as the successor of Liberius as Praetorian prefect of Italy. In 505, Theodorus held the consulate . In the year 509, he had already been appointed Patricius at this time , Theodorus and his brother Inportunus had to answer for violence at the races in Rome.
His older brother Flavius Albinus iunior (consul of the year 493) was involved in a political affair in 522/23, which ultimately probably cost him his life. In the autumn of 525 Theodorus accompanied Pope John I to Ravenna with Inportunus and Agapitus in order to change Theodoric's mind to a more lenient policy towards the Catholic Church. Theodorus was sent with them, the Pope and some bishops from Theodoric to Constantinople to enforce the king's demands on the Emperor Justin I. After returning to Ravenna, Theodorus and the others were thrown into prison by Theodoric around the beginning of May 526. His further fate is unknown.
literature
- Johannes Sundwall : Treatises on the history of late Romanism (= Öfversigt af Finska Vetenskaps-Societenens förhandlingar. B: Humanistiska vetenskaper. Vol. 60, No. 2, 1917/18, ZDB -ID 448249-9 ). Finska Vetenskaps-Societeten, Helsingfors 1919, pp. 162-163, (Reprinted by Arno Press, New York NY 1975, ISBN 0-405-07065-9 ).
- John Robert Martindale: Fl. Theodorus 62. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4 , pp. 1097-1098.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flavius Theodorus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Theodorus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman consul 505 and Patricius |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 500 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 525 |