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==Origins== | ==Origins== | ||
The exact origins of the Julian dynasty - and the {{wp|Julia gens}} of [[Great Levantia]] generally - are unknown. Several mythical origin stories from the Medieval period indicate that they were the first [[Latinic people|Latinic]] settlers from [[Adonerum]] to both discover and settle [[Urceopolis (City)|Urceopolis]], although this story is considered by most modern historians to be a fabrication. The first historical record of the Julii occurs in 327 BC with one of its members being recorded as serving as {{wp|Praetor}} that year. The Julii continued as a relatively obscure noble family of [[Great Levantia]] for most of its existence, but historians believe the family's continued existence through the fifth century AD suggests it to be a relatively prodigious and wealthy - if politically irrelevant - family. The leading family of the Julii eventually built the fortified [[Julian Palace|Domus Julii]] in the [[Urceopolis_(City)#New_City|New City]] section of [[Urceopolis (City)|Urceopolis]] in the early sixth century as fortified noble complexes in the declining city were becoming increasingly common after the collapse of [[Great Levantia]]. | The exact origins of the Julian dynasty - and the {{wp|Julia gens}} of [[Great Levantia]] generally - are unknown. Several mythical origin stories from the Medieval period indicate that they were the first [[Latinic people|Latinic]] settlers from [[Adonerum]] to both discover and settle [[Urceopolis (City)|Urceopolis]], although this story is considered by most modern historians to be a fabrication. The first historical record of the Julii occurs in 327 BC with one of its members being recorded as serving as {{wp|Praetor}} that year. The Julii continued as a relatively obscure noble family of [[Great Levantia]] for most of its existence, but historians believe the family's continued existence through the fifth century AD suggests it to be a relatively prodigious and wealthy - if politically irrelevant - family. The leading family of the Julii eventually built the fortified [[Julian Palace|Domus Julii]] in the [[Urceopolis_(City)#New_City|New City]] section of [[Urceopolis (City)|Urceopolis]] in the early sixth century as fortified noble complexes in the declining city were becoming increasingly common after the collapse of [[Great Levantia]]. | ||
The "Julian legend" was a popular story in the early medieval period that suggested the Julii were the first clan with a paterfamilias to become Christian. According to this legend, in 202 AD, Gnaeus Julius Cicurninus converted to Christianity. He is supposed to have been killed by a family member in 205 AD for abjuring the family’s household gods and the state god, but legend claims he faked his death and continued to direct his family in secret until his death in 243 AD, making the Julii crypto-Christians. The legend persisted in popular imagination until the 7th century, with “Saint Cicurninus” emerging as a folk saint. | |||
==Dynastic houses== | ==Dynastic houses== | ||