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Consularis is a Latin word, derived from cattle.

inally it was simple and adjective meaning "consular", but more interestingly it has also become a substantive, used in technical meanings.

-Any former Consul. This is worth mentioning, for it is a traditional qualification (in many case, prerequisite) for various appointments.

-During the Dominate
Dominate

The Dominate was the 'despotism' latter phase of government in the ancient Roman Empire from the conclusion of the Crisis of the Third Century of 235?284 until the formal date of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476....
 (late imperial period), Consularis was specifically used as one of the more frequently used titles for the Roman governor
Roman governor

A Roman governor was an official either elected or appointed to be the chief administrator of Roman law throughout one or more of the many Roman province constituting the Roman Empire....
 (the generic term was Rector provinciae) of an 'eparchy' (province).






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Consularis is a Latin word, derived from cattle.

Roman history

Originally it was simple and adjective meaning "consular", but more interestingly it has also become a substantive, used in technical meanings.

-Any former Consul. This is worth mentioning, for it is a traditional qualification (in many case, prerequisite) for various appointments.

-During the Dominate
Dominate

The Dominate was the 'despotism' latter phase of government in the ancient Roman Empire from the conclusion of the Crisis of the Third Century of 235?284 until the formal date of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476....
 (late imperial period), Consularis was specifically used as one of the more frequently used titles for the Roman governor
Roman governor

A Roman governor was an official either elected or appointed to be the chief administrator of Roman law throughout one or more of the many Roman province constituting the Roman Empire....
 (the generic term was Rector provinciae) of an 'eparchy' (province). According to the Notitia Dignitatum
Notitia Dignitatum

The Notitia Dignitatum is a unique document of the Ancient Rome imperial chanceries. One of the very few surviving documents of Roman government, it details the administrative organisation of the eastern and western Roman empires, listing several thousand offices from the imperial court down to the provincial level....
 (circa 400), the following provinces were administered by a Consularis, in the following dioceses:
  • in fifteen provinces in the eastern empire :
    • five in the diocese Oriens: Palaestina, Foenicia, Syria, Cilicia
      Cilicia

      In antiquity, Cilicia now known as ?ukurova, was a commonly used name of the south coastal region of the Anatolian peninsula, and a political entity in Roman times....
       and Cyprus
      Cyprus

      Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is an island country situated in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece, west of Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, south of Turkey and north of Egypt....
    • three in the diocese Asiana: Pamfylia, Hellespontus and Lydia
      Lydia

      Lydia was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern Turkey provinces of Manisa Province and inland Izmir Province....
    • two in the Pontic diocese: Galatia
      Galatia

      Ancient Galatia was an area in the highlands of central Anatolia in modern Turkey. Galatia, an ancient region of Asia Minor, was named for the immigrant Gauls from Thrace , who settled here and became its ruling caste in the 3rd century BC....
       and Bithynia
      Bithynia

      Bithynia was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thrace Bosporus and the Euxine ....
    • two in Thraciae: Europa
      Europa

      Europa is a beautiful Phoenician princess in Greek mythology. Her name is the name for Europe in Latin and other languages.Europa may also refer to:...
       and Thracia
    • three in Illyricum: Creta (Crete), Macedon
      Macedon

      Macedon or Macedonia was the name of a monarchy centred in the northernmost part of ancient Greece. The homeland of the ancient Macedonians, it was bordered by the kingdom of Epirus to the west and the region of Thrace to the east....
      ia and Dacia mediterranea;
    • while Egypt -sui generis, the imperial crown domain- is explicitely said to have none.
  • in twenty one provinces in the western empire:
    • one in the diocese Pannonia, itself called Pannonia
      Pannonia

      Pannonia is an ancient province of the Roman Empire bounded north and east by the Danube, coterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia....
    • eight in Italiae: Venetia et Histria, Aemilia
      Aemilia

      Aemilia can indicate several people and places in Classical history:* Aemilia, a vestal virgin who, when the Sacred fire of Vesta was extinguished on one occasion, prayed to Vesta for assistance, and mira?culously rekindled it by throwing a piece of her garment upon the extinct embers....
      , Liguria
      Liguria

      Liguria is a coastal Regions of Italy of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions. Its capital is Genoa. It is a popular region with tourists for its beautiful beaches, picturesque little towns, and food....
      , Flaminia et Picenum annonarium, Tuscia et Umbria, Picenum suburbicarium, Campania
      Campania

      Campania is a Regions of Italy of southern Italy in Europe. The region has a population of around 5.8 million people, making it the second-most-populous region of Italy, its total area of 13,595 km? makes it the most densely populated region in the country....
       and Sicilia
    • two in Africa: Byzacium and Numidia
      Numidia

      Numidia was an ancient Berber people kingdom in present-day Algeria and part of Tunisia that later alternated between being a Roman province and being a Roman client state, and is no longer in existence today....
      .
    • three in Hispaniae (half of the provinces in Spain & Portugal): Baetica, Lusitania
      Lusitania

      Lusitania was an ancient Ancient Rome Roman province including approximately all of modern Portugal south of the Douro river, and part of modern Spain ....
      , Callaecia (greater Galicia)
    • six in Galliae: Viennensis, Lugdunensis prima, Germania prima, Germania secunda, Belgica prima and Belgica secunda
    • two in Britanniae: Maxima Caesariensis
      Maxima Caesariensis

      Maxima Caesariensis was the name of one of the four provinces of later Roman Britain . Its capital was Londinium and probably encompassed what is now south east England....
       and Valentia
      Valentia

      Valentia may refer to:*Valentia Island, off the coast of Ireland*Valentia , a province of Roman Britain*Valentia III, a fictional planet in the Lensmen books....
      .


Yet the title Consularis was also used in the Dominate for a department chief, notably a Consularis aquarum ('Count of the waterworks') under the Praefectus Urbis of Rome

Modern use

The Latin term consularis 'adviser' has also been adopted, notably in Dutch, by a foundation for retired professionals (managers, consultants etc.) who help young businesses by donating some of their know-how, within the framework of a foundation called De Consularis ('de' is Dutch for the)

See also

  • Notitia dignitatum
    Notitia Dignitatum

    The Notitia Dignitatum is a unique document of the Ancient Rome imperial chanceries. One of the very few surviving documents of Roman government, it details the administrative organisation of the eastern and western Roman empires, listing several thousand offices from the imperial court down to the provincial level....
  • Pauly-Wissowa
    Pauly-Wissowa

    The Realencyclop?die der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, commonly called the Pauly-Wissowa or simply RE, is a German language encyclopedia of classical antiquity scholarship....