Flavius Anastasius Paulus Probus Sabinianus Pompeius Anastasius (floruit 517) was a politician of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Life

Anastasius was the son of Sabinianus, consul in 505, and of a nephew of emperor Anastasius I

Anastasius I (emperor)

Anastasius I was Byzantine Emperor from 491 to 518. During his reign the Roman eastern frontier underwent extensive re-fortification, including the construction of Dara, a stronghold intended to counter the Persian fortress of Nisibis....

. According to another possible reconstruction, he might be a great-nephew of Anastasius and a brother of Anastasius Paulus Probus Moschianus Probus Magnus, consul in 518.

He held the consulship for the year 517. One of his consular diptych

Consular diptych

In Late Antiquity a consular diptych was a particular type of diptych which could function as a writing tablet but was also intended as a deluxe commemorative object, commissioned by a consul ordinarius and then distributed to reward those who had supported his candidature as...

s is preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Bibliothèque nationale de France

The is the National Library of France, located in Paris. It is intended to be the repository of all that is published in France. The current president of the library is Bruno Racine.-History:...

. According to the inscription he held the honorary title of comes domesticorum equitum.

Marriage and Descendants

He married Theodora, born circa 515, natural daughter of Empress Theodora

Theodora (6th century)

Theodora , was empress of the Roman Empire and the wife of Emperor Justinian I. Like her husband, she is a saint in the Orthodox Church, commemorated on November 14...

, although Emperor Justinian I

Justinian I

Justinian I ; , ; 483– 13 or 14 November 565), commonly known as Justinian the Great, was Byzantine Emperor from 527 to 565. During his reign, Justinian sought to revive the Empire's greatness and reconquer the lost western half of the classical Roman Empire.One of the most important figures of...

 apparently treated her and her son Athanasius as fully legitimate, and had:

• Anastasius (ca 530 - aft. 571), married firstly to Joannina, only daughter of General Flavius Belisarius
  Belisarius
  Flavius Belisarius was a general of the Byzantine Empire. He was instrumental to Emperor Justinian's ambitious project of reconquering much of the Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman Empire, which had been lost less than a century previously....
  
   and wife Antonina, a marriage that lasted for eight months when they were forced to separate by her mother and father, without issue, and married secondly aft. 548 Juliana (b. ca 533), daughter of Flavius Anicius Probus Iunior
  Flavius Anicius Probus Iunior
  Flavius Anicius Probus Iunior was a Roman Consul in 525. He was the son of Flavius Anicius Olybrius , c.p. 476/83, PPo It. 503, paternal grandson of Flavius Anicius Probus and great-grandson of Flavius Anicius Probus , Praetor in 424 and v. ill. in 459, and wife Adelphia Flavius Anicius...
  
   (ca 495 - aft. 525), Roman
  Roman Empire
  The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
  
   Consul
  Roman consul
  A consul served in the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic.Each year, two consuls were elected together, to serve for a one-year term. Each consul was given veto power over his colleague and the officials would alternate each month...
  
   in 525, and wife and cousin Proba (b. ca 510 - ), and had by this second marriage:

• • Placidia (b. ca 552), married to John Mystacon
    John Mystacon
    John, surnamed Mystacon, "the mustachioed", , was a prominent East Roman general in the wars with Sassanid Persia during the reigns of Byzantine emperors Tiberius II and Maurice ....
    
     (ca 545 - 591), a magister militum
    Magister militum
    Magister militum was a top-level military command used in the later Roman Empire, dating from the reign of Constantine. Used alone, the term referred to the senior military officer of the Empire...
    
     per Orientem from 579 to his death in 591, and had issue

• • Areobindus (b. ca 550), married and had, apparently:

• • • Anastasia Areobinda (b. ca 570), married to Peter Augustus
      Peter (curopalates)
      Petrus |Cappadocia]] – 27 November 602 in Constantinople or Chalcedon) was a brother of the Byzantine Emperor Maurice, who reigned from 582 to 602.-Background:...
      
       (ca 550 - 602), curopalates
      Curopalates
      Kouropalatēs, Latinized as curopalates or curopalata and Anglicized as curopalate, was a Byzantine court title, one of the highest from the time of Emperor Justinian I to that of the Komnenoi in the 12th century...
      
      and brother of Emperor Maurice
      Maurice (emperor)
      Maurice was Byzantine Emperor from 582 to 602.A prominent general in his youth, Maurice fought with success against the Sassanid Persians...
      
      , killed at the same time of his brother, and had female issue:

• • • • Flavia Juliana (b. c. 590), married to Athanagild (b. c. 585), the son of Saint Hermenegild
        Hermenegild
        Saint Hermenegild or Ermengild , was the son of king Leovigild of Visigothic Spain. He fell out with his father in 579, then revolted the following year. During his rebellion, he converted from Arian Christianity to Roman Catholicism. Hermenegild was defeated in 584, and exiled...
        
         and wife Ingund, Princess of the Franks, and paternal grandson of Liuvigild
        Liuvigild
        Liuvigild, Leuvigild, Leovigild, or Leogild was a Visigothic King of Hispania and Septimania from 569 to April 21, 586. From 585 he was also king of Galicia. Known for his Codex Revisus or Code of Leovigild, a unifying law allowing equal rights between the Visigothic and Hispano-Roman population,...
        
        , the Visigoth King of Hispania

• John

• Athanasius