Augustalis (bishop)

Augustalis (fl. 5th century) was the first bishop of Toulon, according to some authorities.[1] He was appointed in 441.[2] He attended the Council of Orange that year, and the Council of Vaison the following.[3] He is associated with the civitas of Arles (ancient Arelate) by the Martyrologium Hieronymianum,[4] which honors him on September 7.[5] He is also named by the Martyrologium romanum on that day, with his location noted as in Gallia.[6] An Augustalis, most likely this man, appears among a group of bishops addressed by Pope Leo I in letters dated 22 August 449 and 5 May 450, the latter of which addresses issues of jurisdiction between Arles and Vienne.[7]

  1. ^ Louis Duchesne, Fastes épiscopaux de l'ancienne Gaule: Provinces du Sud-est (Paris, 1984), vol. 1, pp. 19 online, 250, 269, 349, citing the Latin sources.
  2. ^ Christine Barnel, "Town and Country in Provence: Toulon, Its Notaries, and Their Clients," in Urban and Rural Communities in Medieval France: Provence and Languedoc, 1000–1500 (Brill, 1998), p. 240 online.
  3. ^ Auguste Allmer, Revue épigraphique du Midi de la France 2 (1884–1889), pp. 374–375 online.
  4. ^ Duchesne, Fastes épiscopaux, p. 250.
  5. ^ Martyrologium Hieronymianum VII id. sept., as cited by S.T. Loseby, "Bishops and Cathedrals: Order and Density in the Fifth-Century Urban Landscape of Southern Gaul," in Fifth-Century Gaul: A Crisis of Identity (Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 147 online.
  6. ^ Martyrologium romanum Gregorii XIII, Pontificis Maximi. Urbani VIII et Clementis Papae X auctoritate recognitum (1807).
  7. ^ St. Leo the Great: Letters, translated by Edmund Hunt (Fathers of the Church, 1957), pp. 120–121 and 134–135. See also Jacques Paul Migne, Flavii Lucii Dextri Chronicon in Patrologiae latina cursus completus (Paris, 1846), vol. 31, 507/508 online, especially note 7.