Flavius Probus

See this discussion for the debates over Probus' place in this family tree: https://www.geni.com/discussions/265167?msg=1634361

Not the same as Flavius Probus

Probus was Consul in 502 and died after 542.

Cameron in his “Stemma” shows the three sons of the daughter of Theodora as the grandsons of Caesaria, sister of Emperor Anastasius, and Caesaria's husband Secundinus, who was consul in 511.

Cameron shows Theodora's son in law as an unnamed son either of Caesaria's son Probus (consul in 502 and alive in 542) or Caesaria's daughter Caesaria, who died in 556.

Settipani is not very convinced by Cameron's argument, writing in Continuité gentilice et continuité familiale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale : mythe et realité, page 420, that

"C'est la position de la Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire en dernier lieu, mais elle a été contestée par C. Capizzil et A. Cameron. Si l'opinion du premier est trop mal fondée pour avoir besoin d'être sérieusement combattue, il en va autrement pour le second."

If google translate is to be trusted, Settipani calls Cameron's theory too ill-founded to need to be seriously contested and difficult to follow.

Settipani follows Martindale's formulation that Probus is likely the son of Paulus and Magna, as Paulus is the only other known sibling of Emperor Anastasius and this placement would make him both the nephew of Anastasius and the cousin of Pompeius and Hypatius.

References

• Alan Cameron. Duke University, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies The House of Anastasius. Columbia University, pp 259-276. June 1978. Page 270. Accessed 9 April 2020. https://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/viewFile/7451/4919 page 17 of PDF. Probus, Consul in 502. Son of Caesaria & Secundinus. Father of (unnamed), who married Empress Theodora’s daughter.