Biography

Agricola was the son of Avitus

Avitus

Eparchius Avitus was Western Roman Emperor from July 8 or July 9, 455 to October 17, 456. A Gallic-Roman aristocrat, he was a senator and a high-ranking officer both in the civil and military administration, as well as Bishop of Piacenza.A representative of the Gallic-Roman aristocracy, he...

, and therefore the brother of Ecdicius

Ecdicius

Ecdicius Avitus was a Gallo-Roman aristocrat, senator, and magister militum praesentalis from 474 until 475.As a son of the Emperor Avitus, Ecdicius was educated at Augustonemetum , where he lived and owned some land...

 and Papianilla. His grandfather was probably the Agricola consul in 421. Agricola was related to the poet Sidonius Apollinaris

Sidonius Apollinaris

Gaius Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius or Saint Sidonius Apollinaris was a poet, diplomat, and bishop. Sidonius is "the single most important surviving author from fifth-century Gaul" according to Eric Goldberg...

, who married Papianila, and with Ruricius of Limonges, who was his father-in-law. He married and had a son, Parthenius, who gave him some grandsons. Two letters addressed to him by Sidonius Apollinaris (Epistles I.2, 453/466; II.12, before 469) and one by Ruricius (II.32, 485/506).

He was a vir inlustris. When he received Ruricius' letter (485/506) he had been shortly ordained priest.