Flavius ​​Florence (consul 361 years)

Flavius ​​Florentius ( Latin Flavius ​​Florentius ) - military and politician of the Roman Empire .

Florence was the prefect of Praetorium in Gaul (357–360), Illyric (360–361); he was consul in 361.

In the year of his consulate, Caesar Julian , proclaimed August 360 in Gaul, marched with his army against Constantius II , who was in the East. When the news came to Rome that Julian was already in the Alps , the consuls Flavius ​​Florence and Flavius ​​Taurus , supporters of Constantius, left the city. Julian forced them to abandon the consulate ^[1] . Then Florence was convicted in Chalcedon , during the trial of many close associates of Constantius II. In fear of the verdict, he fled with his wife, hid for a long time, and, being sentenced in absentia to death, could not return until the death of Julian in 363 ^[2] .