Libérius (Prefect of the court of Gaules)
Libérius (c.465 - c.555), prefect of the court of Gaules (510-534)
Biography
After the release of the town of Arles in 508, Théodoric names in 510, Libérius, Préfet of the court of Gaules in ostrogoth-Roman field which extends from Italy in Spain while passing by the south of France (Provence and Septimanie). The prefect has an auxiliary, called by Avitus: the Gemellus vicar, assistant of the prefect .Libérius resides as a Gaulle in a final way only as from the year 512. Then begin a mandature which coincides about with the long episcopate of Césaire, the archbishop of Arles. With died of Théodoric in 526, Libérius remains prefect under the government of Athalaric. It is also known that it is seriously wounded at the time of an operation against the Burgondes when those try to put the hand on Provence. In 529, converted in Catholicism, it takes part in the councils of Vaison and Orange. The character sits at the sides of Césaire and subscribed the guns, thus marking a certain control of the laic capacity, for meetings held in the grounds given up in 523 by the Burgondes.
The end of its life is more hypothetical: it is thought that there remains prefect until in 534 or 536 and certain historians evoke his name like that of a Patrice directing an intervention in Septimanie or Spain in 554. He would have been however almost 90 years old.