Ferreolus, also called Ferreolus of Rodez (b. 470 or ca 475) was a senator of Narbonne

Narbonne

Narbonne is a commune in southern France in the Languedoc-Roussillon region. It lies from Paris in the Aude department, of which it is a sub-prefecture. Once a prosperous port, it is now located about from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea...

, then Narbo, who lived in Rodez

Rodez

Rodez is a town and commune in southern France, in the Aveyron department, of which it is the capital. Its inhabitants are called Ruthénois.-History:Existing from at least the 5th century BC, Rodez was founded by the Celts...

 and was also a senator there. He was the son of Tonantius Ferreolus

Tonantius Ferreolus (senator)

Tonantius Ferreolus , was a vir clarissimus, or Gallo-Roman senator, and Praetorian prefect of Gaul.He lived in Narbo...

 and wife Industria.

He firstly married, about 531, an unidentified daughter of Clovis I

Clovis I

Clovis Leuthwig was the first King of the Franks to unite all the Frankish tribes under one ruler, changing the leadership from a group of royal chieftains, to rule by kings, ensuring that the kingship was held by his heirs. He was also the first Catholic King to rule over Gaul . He was the son...

 of the Salian Franks

Salian Franks

The Salian Franks or Salii were a subgroup of the early Franks who originally had been living north of the limes in the area above the Rhine. The Merovingian kings responsible for the conquest of Gaul were Salians. From the 3rd century on, the Salian Franks appear in the historical records as...

 (born before 511), without issue. He secondly married Saint Dode

Dode, Abbess of Saint Pierre de Reims

Saint Dode was an Abbess of Saint Pierre de Reims and a French Saint whose Feast Day is April 24. She was the daughter of Chloderic, King of the Franks, and the sister of Munderic. She married ca...

, daughter of Chloderic of the Ripuarian Franks

Ripuarian Franks

Ripuarian Franks is a distinction of the Frankish people made by a number of writers in the Latin language of the first several centuries of the Christian Era...

 (born before 509), with the following issue:

• Ansbertus
  Ansbertus
  Ansbertus was a mythical Gallo-Roman Senator. It is proposed by some modern genealogists, that he is the son of Ferreolus, Senator of Narbonne and his wife Saint Dode...
  
  
• Agilulf or Aigulf
  Agilulf, Bishop of Metz
  Agilulf, also called Aigulf , was a Bishop of Metz between 590 or 591 and 601, and was the predecessor of Arnual or Arnoldus or Arnoald...
  
   (born 537), Bishop of Metz (590/591 – 601)
• Babon
• Deotarius, Bishop of Arisitum
• Ragenfred

Ancestry

Sources and citations

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  Christian Settipani is the Technical Director of an IT company in Paris and a genealogist and historian.He has a Master of Advanced Studies degree from the Paris-Sorbonne University and is currently preparing his doctoral thesis, while he often gives lectures to students undergraduates at the...
  
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  Christian Settipani
  Christian Settipani is the Technical Director of an IT company in Paris and a genealogist and historian.He has a Master of Advanced Studies degree from the Paris-Sorbonne University and is currently preparing his doctoral thesis, while he often gives lectures to students undergraduates at the...
  
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