FRUIDBERT

FULARTACH

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FRUIDBERT (Bed. v. 24, append.), bishopof Hexham. [Frithobert.] [C. H.]

FRUIDUUALD (Bed. v. 24, append.), bishopof Whithern. [Frithwald.] [G. H.]

FRUISCLUS, bishop of Mentesa. [Fro-isclus.]

FRUMARIUS, Suevian king of Spain fromcir. 460 to cir. 463. He belongs to the periodfrom 456 to 463, when the Suevi were strugglingagainst the allied Gothic and Roman armies.Theodoric II., who had been the ally of theSuevian king Rekiar (448-456) up to 456,fell back in that year upon the foedus withRome, which his successor Euric was soon toset aside altogether. The Suevi, attacked bythe allied Goths and Provincials, were hardpressed. In the course of the campaign Rekiarwas taken and executed, and Theodoric ap-pointed Aiulf governor of the Suevian terri-tory. In the extreme north-west of Gallicia,howevei, a band of Suevi made Maldra king.(Idat. ann. 460.) A time of great confusionfollows. Maldra, Aiulf, and Franta all appearas Suevian kings between 456 and 460. In

459 (?) Maldra made his son Remismund district-king ( Bezirks-Konig, regulus, Jord , c. 44), and in460, after Maldra’s murder, we have the firstappearance of Frumari (Idat. ann. 460). WhoFrumari was is far from clear. He may havebeen a son of the brother murdered by Maldra in

460 (Dahn, vi. 566), and if so, a cousin ofRemismund. At any rate, he seems to repre-sent a time of anarchy and confusion, when theWest Suevi, who after Rekiar’s defeat and death,made Maldra king, appear as distinct from,and at one time even in disunion with theEast Suevi under Remismund. Under theyear 460 Idatius speaks of the descent ofFrumari upon Aquae Flaviae, of the captureof himself, “capto Idatio Episcopo, septimoKalendas Augusti in Aquae Flaviensi Ecclesia,”and the devastation of the district. [Idatius.]Meanwhile Remismund, who appears so far tohave acted in concert with Frumari, wasravaging the country of the Auregfliises on theMinho and the coast about Lugo. Immediatelyafterwards dissensions arose between the twochiefs, followed by a short truce between the Suevrand Provincials, and negotiations between theSuevi and the Goths, at that time occupying theposition of Roman foederati in various towns ofthe peninsula, possibly set on foot by Remismundwith the object of obtaining help against Frumari.(Dahn, l. c.) The Gothic and Suevian legates meetin Lugo, awd Remismund goes twice to Theodoricat Toulouse. During his absence, in spite of thepresence of certain Gothic troops commanded byCyrila in Gallicia, collisions occurred betweenthe Provincials and Frumari’s Suevi. (Idat.ann. 462.) In 463 (according to Dahn; Florezgives 464) Frumari died, and Remismund there-upon united all the Suevian districts in onekingdom, strengthening his position moreover,by a close alliance with Theodoric II.

The supposition that after Maldra’s death Fru-mari at first ruled the West Suevi as district-king(Bezirks-Konig) in dependence on Remismund,and that he subsequently broke loose and assumedan independent pcaition, Dahn thinks “ not likely ”—though it, remains quite .possible. (Idatius,

Chron. apud Esp. Sagr. iv., Migne, Pafcr. Lat. li.887 ; Isidore, Hist. Sueuorum, idem, vi.; Dahn,Kdnige der Germanen, vi. 566.) [M. A. W.]

FRUMENTIUS (1), founder of the Ethiopianchurch. He was consecrated as bishop ofAuxume (modern Axum) by Athanasius beforea.d. 368, and, under the title of Abba Salama,was regarded as the apostle of Ethiopia, tra-ditionally credited with the translation of theScriptures and the Apostolic Canons. Foir hisromantic history, preserved by Rufinus, see arts.Edesius and Etiiiopic Church. [H. R. R,]

FRUMENTIUS (2)—March 23. Two Afri-can martyrs of the same name are commemoratedon this day. They were merchants who suffered 1for the Catholic faith, at the hands of the Arians,in the Vandal persecution under Hunneric, a.d.477. (Mart. Bom. Vet.; Adonis, Usuardi; Victor.Vitensis, de Persecut. Wandal. lib. 3.)

[G. T. S.]

FRUMENTIES ( 3 ), the name of twoAfrican bishops, viz. of Tibursica near Tagaste rin Numidia, and of Telepte in the inland part ofthe Byzacene, banished by Hunneric a.d. 484,(Victor. Vit. Noiitia, 56, 58 ; Patrol. Lat. lviii. fMorcelli, Africa Christ, i. 311, 318.) [L. D.]

FRYGES. (Cod, Theod. XVI. v. 40, 59,65, v ][Phryges.] [T. W. D.]

FUGAT1US, a form of Fagan (Cressy, CfuHist. Brit. iv. cc. 5^7); also used by Baronius(Arm. Eccl a.d. 183, i. 227). [J. G.]

FUGITIVUS, metropolitan of Seville in Dec.656, when the tenth council of Toledo was held.Florez identifies him with the abbat Fugitives,whose signature, together with that of the abbatIldefonsus, afterwards the famous Ildefonsus ofToledo, occurs among those of the ninth councilof Toledo (provincial not national), which metDec. 2, 655. (Esp. Sagr. ix. 219; Aguirre-Catalani, iv. 145, 15B.) [Marceelus.]

[M. A. W.]

FULARTACH (Falertus-, Felertus, Fo-LARATaig, Fulartus). (1) Son. of Brec, com-memorated Mar. 29, Dec. 21. Colgan (ActaSS.787) gives a brief notice- of this hermit, whosesanctity is more carefully recorded' in kalendarsand festilogies than- in other histories. He wasdescended from the most illustrious family ofRudhraighe, and of the race of Conal Cearnaeh,in Ulster. He had a hermit-cell at Offally, onthe borders of Kildare and King’s County: thiswas named Disert-Fulartaagh. Some say thehermit afterwards became bishop at Glonard, butthe Annals, like the Four Masters, place thedeath of “'Fulartaeh, sen of Breac, an anchoret,”at A.D-. 755, and that of the* bishop of Clonard atA.D. 774 (O’Conor, Ber. Hib. Scriptor. ii. 255,.iv. 108). Evidently the Armais contemplate dif-ferent persons, but O’Gorman and later writers-regard them as one.

(2) Of Donaghpatriek, bishop. In the Tri~partite Life of St. Patrick there is mention made-of Felartus, whom Colgan (Acta SS. 788) callsFulartus, giving at the same time a memoir ofSt. Fulartus, bishop. In the middle of the fifth-century he was a steady aud active disciple oflSt. Patrick, and for many years was his constantcompanion and assistant. It is said m the 1 ita