Anastasius (consul 517)


Flavius Anastasius Paulus Probus Sabinianus Pompeius Anastasius was a politician of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Life

Anastasius was the son of Sabinianus, consul in 505, and of a niece of emperor Anastasius I, making him the emperor's great-nephew. He may have been the brother of Anastasius Paulus Probus Moschianus Probus Magnus, consul in 518.
He held the consulship for the year 517. One of his consular diptychs is preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. According to the inscription he held the honorary title of comes domesticorum equitum.

Marriage and Descendants

He married Theodora, born c. 515, natural daughter of Empress Theodora, although Emperor Justinian I apparently treated her and her son Athanasius as fully legitimate, and had: