Syagrii

Important family of the Aristocracy Gallo-Roman of the late Antiquity, the Syagrii was present in all the history of the Gaulle of the IVe century at the VIIIe century. Perhaps the people finds his origin with Postumus Suagrus, which was Préfet of Rome in 275, and whose name or nickname could come from the Greek word meaning " porc" , entered the Latin vocabulary.

History

Two first member important of family, although one does not know well which are their relationship between them, are Flavius Syagrius and Flavius Afranius Syagrius, which had beautiful political careers and which were Consul S respectively in 381 and 382. Flavius Afranius Syagrius became perhaps even the brother-in-law of Théodose, Aelia Flacilla being the sister of one of the consuls of 382. The grandson of Afranius, Tonantius Ferreolus, was an important character but its career remained circumscribed in Gaulle, of which it was Préfet of the court in 451 - 452. The Carolingian genealogists made of it an ancestor of Charlemagne.

Syagrius, the Roman chief of Gaulle of the north overcome by Clovis with Soissons, belonged its doubt also to this family like her father Ægidius, perhaps husband of a Syagria .

After them, the Syagrii were integrated into the cruel royalties. One finds of them several, at various times, some in the entourage of the kings and the lords, certain bishops, until the end of the Mérovingiens. The first of them was undoubtedly with the Ve century the Syagrius correspondent of Sidoine Apollinaire, specialist in the right and the laws, which learned the Germanic language and went to be put at the service of the king Burgonde, and which was called a little ironically by Sidoine the Solon of Burgondes .

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