Valerius Maximus Basilius


Valerius Maximus Basilius was a Proconsul of Achaea and a Praefectus Urbi Romae between AD 361 and 363.

Biography

He was the son of Lucius Valerius Maximus Basilius and second wife Vulcacia. He married Saint Melania the Elder or Maior, one of the wealthiest citizens of the empire, born in Hispania, when she was fourteen, and they lived in the suburbs of Rome. When his wife was twenty-two, he and two of their three sons died of disease; Melania moved to Rome with their remaining son, and she became a Christian.
Valerius Maximus Basilius's surviving son, Valerius Publicola, married Caeionia Albina, the daughter of Caeionius Rufius Albinus. Their daughter became Saint Melania the Younger or Minor.

Ancestry