Flavius Dagalaiphus was a politician of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Biography

Son of Areobindus

Areobindus (consul 434)

Flavius Areobindus was a general of the Eastern Roman Empire of Gothic origin, who became commander in chief of the East.-Biography:...

 (consul in 434), Dagalaiphus married Godisthea, the daughter of Ardabur

Ardabur

Ardabur was the son of Flavius Ardabur Aspar, Master of Horse and Magister Militum of the Eastern Roman Empire in the fifth century. Ardabur apparently often served under his famous father during his campaigns. In 466 Ardabur was accused of a treasonous plot, probably by his father's political...

 (consul in 447) and granddaughter of Aspar

Aspar

Flavius Ardabur Aspar was an Alan patrician and magister militum of the Eastern Roman Empire. Aspar's family exerted a great influence on the Eastern Roman Emperors for half a century, from the 420s to his death in 471, over Theodosius II, Marcian and Leo I, who, in the end, had him killed.Alans...

 (consul in 434 and colleague of Areobindus). They had a son, the consul of 506, Areobindus Dagalaiphus Areobindus, who married the daughter of the Western Roman Emperor Olybrius

Olybrius

Anicius Olybrius was Western Roman Emperor from April or May 472 to his death. He was in reality a puppet ruler, put on the throne by the Roman general of Germanic descent Ricimer, and was mainly interested in religion, while the actual power was held by Ricimer and his nephew Gundobad.-Family and...

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In 461 he was consul in the East. During the reign of Basiliscus

Basiliscus

Basiliscus was Eastern Roman Emperor from 475 to 476. A member of the House of Leo, he came to power when Emperor Zeno had been forced out of Constantinople by a revolt....

 (475-476), Dagalaiphus, attested by sources as Patricius, received in his home in Constantinople Daniel the Stylite

Daniel the Stylite

Saint Daniel the Stylite is a saint of the Eastern Orthodox, and Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic Churches. He was born in a village by the name of Maratha in upper Mesopotamia near Samosata, in today what is now a region of Turkey. He entered a monastery at the age of twelve and lived there...

, to allow him to rest during a demonstration against the Emperor.