Inportunus

Flavius ​​Inportunus was a Roman patricius and consul at the beginning of the 6th century AD.

Inportunus belonged to the old aristocratic family of the Decier. He was the son of the consul of 480, Caecina Decius Maximus Basilius . In the year 509 Inportunus, still young, became a full consul. In the same year Inportunus and his brother Theodorus had to answer for violence at the races in Rome.

Between 509 and 511 Inportunus was appointed Patricius . 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 autumn 525 Inportunus accompanied Pope John I to Ravenna with his brother Theodorus and Agapitus in order to persuade the Ostrogoth king Theodoric to adopt a more lenient policy towards the Catholic Church. He was sent with the Pope and some bishops from Theodoric to Constantinople to enforce Theodoric's demands from Emperor Justin I (518-527). After his return from Constantinople Inportunus was thrown into prison with other ambassadors by Theodoric. It is uncertain whether he died there.

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, p. 128, (Reprint: Arno Press, New York NY 1975, ISBN 0-405-07065-9 ).
• John Robert Martindale: Fl. Inportunus. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4 , p. 592.