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Flavius Liberalis
- Preferred Name: Flavius Liberalis[1] [2]
- Gender: M
- Occupation: Quaestor - A quaestor (UK: /ˈkwiːstər/, US: /ˈkwɛstər/, Latin for investigator)[1] was a public official in Ancient Rome. The position served different functions depending on the period. with note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaestor
- FSID: LXSJ-VR9
- Death: Y
- Birth: 16 BC
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Flavius Liberalis was a Roman of the 1st century and was a man of equestrian rank, who came from Ferentium (modern Ferento) a country town in Italy. This man of humble origins was a quaestor and later a law clerk.
Liberalis had his daughter Flavia Domitilla appear before a board of arbitration to prove her claim for Roman Citizenship, instead of a Latin one. She later married the future Emperor Vespasian. Her children with Vespasian were Domitilla the Younger and Emperors Titus and Domitian.
A quaestor (UK: /ˈkwiːstər/, US: /ˈkwɛstər/, Latin for investigator)[1] was a public official in Ancient Rome. The position served different functions depending on the period. In the Roman Kingdom, quaestores parricidii (quaestors with judicial powers) were appointed by the king to investigate and handle murders. In the Roman Republic, quaestors (also pluralized quaestores) were elected officials that supervised the state treasury and conducted audits. It was the lowest ranking position in the cursus honorum (course of offices). However, this means that in the political environment of Rome, it was quite common for many aspiring politicians to take the position of quaestor as an early rung on the political ladder. In the Roman Empire, the position, which was initially replaced by the praefectus (prefect), reemerged during the late empire as quaestor intra Palatium, a position appointed by the emperor to lead the imperial council and respond to petitioners.[2]
In modern usage in Italy and Romania, a quaestor is a senior ranking officer on the police force. In some organizations, a quaestor is the officer that oversees its finances, similar to a treasurer in other organizations.
See Wikipedia in sources below.
Family 1: Cornlia Cinna de Rome, b. 15 BC
- Flavia Domitilla die Ältere, b. 52 in Roma, Lazio, Italy d. 130 in Rome City, Italy
Sources:
- Title: Wikipedia: Flavius Liberalis
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavius_Liberalis;
- Title: Wikipedia: Quaestor
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaestor;
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