What is "gaudentius"

Gaudentius may refer to

• Flavius Gaudentius (died 432), the father of the Roman magister militum Flavius Aëtius
• Gaudentius (son of Aëtius), son of Flavius Aëtius
• St. Gaudentius of Brescia (died 410), bishop of Brescia, defender of John Chrysostom
• St. Gaudentius of Novara (5th century), to whom the Basilica of San Gaudenzio is dedicated.
• St. Gaudentius of Verona (5th century), Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Verona
• Gaudentius of Celeia, (5th–6th century), Bishop of Celeia (a Roman town at the site of modern Celje, Slovenia)
• Radim Gaudentius (970- 106/1020), a member of Slavnik's dynasty, was the first archbishop of Gniezno from 1000 until 1006/1020.

Gaudentius (c. 440 in Rome – after 455) was the son of Flavius Aetius. F. M. Clover has persuasively argued that his mother was Pelagia, a Gothic noblewoman and the widow of Bonifacius.

He was born in Rome, probably in 440, and was baptized before his first birthday. Scholars identify him as the unnamed subject of a poem of Flavius Merobaudes. In 454 his father and emperor Valentinian III arranged a marriage alliance, which included the marriage between Gaudentius and Placidia, but that year his father was killed by Valentinian himself. In 455, the Vandals sacked Rome; Gaudentius was one of the countless thousands made a prisoner and brought back to Africa. Gaiseric claimed that his following attacks to Italy were to recover Gaudentius's legacy.