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Valerius Maximus Basilius,
- Preferred Name: Valerius Maximus Basilius,[1] [2]
- Gender: M
- Clan Name: with note: Description: Patrician of gens Valeria
- Death: 337 in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France at LATI: N5.829 LONG: E0.2663
- Occupation: Praetorian prefect in Gaul - under Caesar Constantius II, serving as Constantius'BET 331 AND 334
- Birth: 310 in Rome, Rome, Lazio, Italy at LATI: N1.9051 LONG: E2.4971
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Roman Consul - with Flavius Constantius327
- FSID: L2TT-1PF
- Occupation: eastern Praetorian Prefect of Rome - under emperor Constantine IBET 326 AND 329
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: appointed Praetorian Prefect - for a third time - under Caesar DalmatiusBET 336 AND 337
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Valerius Maximus (fl. 325–337) was a Roman senator.
Valerius Maximus was a member of the fourth century patrician gens Valeria, and probably the son of Valerius Maximus signo Basilius, urban prefect of Rome in 319. He served as the vicarius orientis in 325 before being appointed the eastern praetorian prefect, probably in late 326, when the emperor Constantine I returned from Italy. This was an unusual appointment, as the office of praetorian prefect was reserved for members of the Equestrian order, not senators, and it displayed the emperor's confidence in Valerius Maximus, allowing him to exercise command over the extensive resources of the East. He continued to serve Constantine in this role throughout 327 and 328, relinquishing the office in early 329 after Constantine returned from Gaul.
During this period, in 327, Valerius Maximus was appointed consul posterior, alongside Flavius Constantius. Then in late 331, he was probably sent to Gaul with the Caesar Constantius II, serving as Constantius' praetorian prefect. Valerius Maximus served him there until late 333 or early 334, when Constantius returned to his father's court at Constantinople.
In around 336, Valerius Maximus was appointed praetorian prefect for a third time, this time accompanying the Caesar Dalmatius to the provinces along the Danubian frontier, which had been assigned to him as the territory he was to manage, in Constantine's planned administrative division of the empire. He served under Dalmatius until 337, when Valerius Maximus was replaced shortly before the murder of Dalmatius in the wake of the death of Constantine I.
It is speculated that Valerius Maximus was married twice. Christian Settipani has speculated that his first marriage may have been to Septimia Bassa, daughter of Septimius Bassus. They possibly had one son together, as his second nomen and cognomen suggest, named Lucius Valerius Septimius Bassus. His second marriage was possibly to a Vulcacia, supposedly the daughter of Neratius Junius Flavianus and wife Vulcacia. It has been postulated that they had two children, a son, Maximus, and a daughter, Valeria, who may have become a Christian through her possible marriage, as the nomina and cognomen of one of their children supports, to Rufius Maecius Placidus, consularis vir in 370, son of Postumius Rufius Festus Avienus and wife Maecia Placida.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerius_Maximus_(praetorian_prefect)
=== http://fabpedigree.com/s068/f385520.htm ===
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Preferred Parents:
Father: Valerius Maximus signo Basilius, b. ABT 260 in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy d. AFT 323
Mother: Septima de Rome, b. 269 in Italy
Family 1: Nu Iunii Neratii, b. ABT 300 in ,, Europe
- Valeria Basilius, b. um 0335 in Roman Empire
Family 2: Septimia Bassa, b. ABT 300 in Italy
- Lucius Valerius Septimius Bassus, b. ABT 328 in Roma, Lazio, Italy d. AFT 383
Sources:
- Title: Lucius Valerius Messala Basilius Major De Rome
Publication: Name: https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-1-142582941-2-1868/lucius-valerius-messala-basilius-major-de-rome-in-myheritage-family-trees?fspid=G499-XX6;
- Title: Lucius Valerius Messala Basilius Major De Rome
Publication: Name: https://gw.geneanet.org/fedegrifo?lang=en&iz=58&p=lucius+valerius+messala+basilius+major&n=de+rome;
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