Eucherius of Lyon

Personal and Family Information

Eucherius was born about 0385, the son of unknown parents. The place is not known.

His wife was Gallia. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their only known child was Tulia (0410-?).

Events

Notes

Note 1

!StyleName: of Lyon, Saint Eucherius [~385 - ]

!Source: Rusticus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusticus_

Rusticus

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Saint Rusticus , the successor of Saint Lupicinus of Lyon , served as Archbishop of Lyon from 494 to April 501.[1] Later canonized and venerated in the Catholic Church, his feast day is 25 April.

Family

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He and his brother St. Viventiolus were the sons of Aquilinus , a nobleman at Lyon. Aquilinus was the son of Tullia , the daughter of Saint Eucherius and his wife Gallia. Tullia's husband, whose name is unknown, was the son of Decimus Rusticus and his wife Artemia, and was a vicarius of a province in Gaul between 423 and 448 under Apollinaris, the father of Aquilinus' schoolfellow and friend, Sidonius Apollinaris .[citation needed]

Bishop

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Rusticus served for many years as a magistrate.[2] Around 494 he succeeded Lupicinus of Lyon as bishop. Shortly after his consecration, Rusticus sent some financial aid to Pope Gelasius I. Gelasius wrote back in February 494, recommending to the bishop's good offices Epiphanius of Pavia, who was on his way to Gaul to see to the ransom of certain captives held by the Burgundian king Gundobad.[3][4] According to Ennodius, among those freed were 400 from Lyon.[5]

Marriage and issue

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Married before 480 to Hiberie de Limoges , daughter of Ruricius, Bishop of Limoges and his wife Hiberia, daughter of an Arvernian senator Ommatius.[6][7][8] Rusticus and his wife had three children:

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St. Sacerdos, Archbishop of Lyon[9]

Aurelianus of Arles[10]

Leontius, Archbishop of Lyon

Artemia,[9] the wife of Florentinus, born in 485, a senator, who were the parents of:

Gondulf of Provence, Duke, Bishop of Metz

Arthemia, wife of Munderic Vitrey, Pretender of Austrasia.[11][12][13]

St. Nicetius, Archbishop of Lyon[14]

!Source: Decimus Rusticus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimus_Rusticus

Decimus Junius Rusticus of Treves and Lyon was a Master of the Offices and the praetorian prefect of Gaul between 409 and 410 or 413. He was one of those responsible for the withdrawal from Britannia. [citation needed]

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Marriage and descendants

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He married before 400 Artemia , the daughter of Artemia of Clermont-Ferrand in Auvergne , and they were the parents of a son , who was a Vicarius of a province in Gaul under the father of Sidonius Apollinaris between 423 and 448.

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This son then married Tullia of Lyon , daughter of Eucherius of Lyon and wife Gallia, and they were the parents of Aquilinus , a nobleman at Lyon, schoolfellow and friend of Sidonius Apollinaris and the father of St. Viventiolus and his brother St. Rusticus, Archbishop of Lyon.