Julius Patricius

Patricius Flavius ​​(also Patriciolus, Greek Πατρίκιος, † probably 471 in Constantinople Opel ) was under the Emperor ( Caesar ) of the Eastern Roman Emperor Leo I from 469/470 to 471

Patricius was the second son of the mighty army of Alans Master Aspar, who had helped Leo 457 for imperial dignity. In return, Patricius was the consulate of the year 459, he - in mutual non-recognition - held in conjunction with the Western Roman rulers Ricimer.

Disqualified as Arians for the purple, Aspar tried in succession, build up his sons by marrying into the imperial family as a possible heir to the throne. Patricius was engaged to Leo's younger daughter Leontia. He was thus in direct competition with the later Emperor Zeno, who had 467 get the older sister of Ariadne as his wife. In the year 469, or ( more likely) 470 Patricius was appointed to pressure Aspar from Leo to Caesar. When it came to about turmoil in the Orthodox clergy and the circus parties, Patricius was obliged to take off as a condition for the successor of Leo and the marriage to the Emperor's daughter, the Arian creed. His only known official act was a trip to Alexandria, where he was received with all a Caesar rightful honor.

But 471 Aspar was overthrown by the Isaurian faction at court and invaded at the behest of the emperor in the palace of Constantinople Opel and murdered. In the massacre found according to the evidence of most sources also Patricius and his older brother Ardabur death - although, for example, Candidus suggests, Patricius could have survived seriously injured; the younger brother Ermenerich was spared. Then Patricius disappears from the tradition. It is not identical with the magister officiorum Patricius, who was involved in 475 as a lover of Leo's widow Verina at the disempowerment Emperor Zeno. Leontia was still 471 with Flavius ​​Marcian, the son of the Western Roman Emperor Anthemius, married. The Caesar title passed to Zeno's son Leo.

From Patricius no coins are known.