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What happened to the numerous (patrician) families of Rome? Like the Gens Julia for example. There are no ancestors today leading back to them like for example the famous Medici family from renai...
The first gens you mentioned was in my question and did have a consular tribune: The gens Foslia, later Folia, was a patrician family at Rome. ... The remaining three appear to be correct.
New Perspectives on the Conflict of the Orders", Wiley-Blackwell: Malden, Oxford, 2005. (Quote cut short for SE reasons. Read that book.) CJ Smith: "The Roman Clan. The Gens from Ancient Ideology to Modern Anthropology (W.B. Stanford Memorial Lectures)", Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, New York, 2006.
In a recent question it was noted, as is well known, that Roman girls were not given praenomen, but took the feminine form of their father's gens - eg Valeria, Cornelia. I have even read the assert...
By the eighth century, however, a sense of unity had somehow developed that enabled Bede to write in Latin of the gens Anglorum and, perhaps, to speak in the vernacular of the Angelcynn or Angeldeode — or both.
The gens Iulia and the triumphatores of the republic formed a continuum, which had its origins in the founder of the Julii and in the king, son of the god Mars, who had first held imperium and (according to the Augustan Fasti Triumphales) first celebrated a triumph on the first day of the first year of the foundation of the city.