Comments posted to GEN-MEDIEVAL by Don Stone:
. . . "Settipani (1989 and 1991, pp. 198-9) says that Ferreolus's wife Papianilla was probably a niece of the emperor Avitus. Harries (1994, p. 34, n. 30) says that she was a generation older, perhaps a sister or cousin of Avitus, while Mommaerts and Kelley (1992, pp. 112- 3) propose
that she might be a generation younger. . . . Ferreolus's wife was a partner who shared his troubles, according to Sidonius."