Papinilla

According to Sidonius, a contemporary source, Ferreolus' wife was a partner to her husband and shared his troubles. She was a relative of the Papinilla who was daughter of the emperor Avitus and wife of Sidonius Apollinaris. Therefore, she was most probably a niece of Avitus. [Settipani 1989 and 1991, pp. 198-9.] Harries says that she was a generation older, perhaps a sister or cousin of Avitus (1994, p.34, n. 30), while Mommaerts and Kelley suggest that she might have been a generation younger. [1992, pp. 112-13.]