Flavia (gens)
Flavius ( from Latin flavus, " blond" ) is a Roman family name ( nomen gentile ). The plebeian gens Flavia was of little importance in the Republic, but set in the 1st century AD with the Flavians Vespasian, Titus and Domitian, a Roman imperial line.
The female form of the name is Flavia. Modern variants are Flavian or Flavian.
Bearers of the name
- Gaius Flavius Fimbria (consul 104 BC) ( † before 91 BC ), Roman politician
- Gaius Flavius Fimbria († 85 BC), Roman general
- Lucius Flavius Fimbria, Roman politician, Suffektkonsul in 71
- Gnaeus Flavius , the clerk of Appius Claudius Caecus ( around 300 BC )
- Lucius Flavius Silva Nonius Bassus, Roman senator and commander
- Marcus Annius Libo Flavius , Roman Consul 204
- Titus Flavius Caesar ( 73-82 ), son of the Roman Emperor Domitian
- Titus Flavius Clemens († 95 ), Roman consul 95
- Titus Flavius Constans, Roman prefect
- Titus Flavius Longinus, Roman Suffektkonsul 149
- Titus Flavius Sabinus ( tax collector ), Roman tax farmers and moneylenders
- Titus Flavius Sabinus ( Suffektkonsul 47) (~ 8-69 ), Roman senator
- Titus Flavius Sabinus ( Suffektkonsul 72 ), Roman military and Suffektkonsul 69 and 72
- Titus Flavius Sabinus (consul 82 ), Roman politician and Senator
- Flavius Aetius, Roman general
- Arrian ( Flavius Arrian ), historian
- Flavius Hypatius († 532), Eastern Roman senator and nephew of the Emperor Anastasius I
- Flavius Josephus, the Jewish historian
- Flavius Julius Constantius, Roman emperor
- Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus, a Roman statesman and writer
- Flavius Placidus Valentinian, Western Roman Emperor
- Flavius Quintus Cornelius
- Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Roman military theorist
In imperial times, many people wore the noun Flavius , who had acquired it as a freedman or awarding of Roman citizenship by the Flavian emperors. Of those was also the later Emperor Flavius Valerius Constantius Chlorus, so he founded the dynasty is sometimes referred to as "second Flavian dynasty ".
In late antiquity, finally Flavius was in fact a title: Almost all the senior officials in the imperial service featured in the 5th and 6th centuries, their proper name, preceded by a " Flavius " to demonstrate their membership of the Empire Elite - they then were called about Flavius Theodorus or Flavius Hypatius.