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.
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...
If we look deeper in the history, the ancient Greek kings were just gens elders. Take for example, Sparte where initially was four and later two tribes with their respective "kings", the two considered the equal kings of Sparta. I think the most ancient concept of "king" was exactly that of a tribe's elder, the head of a family.
As priest of familia, gens and genius The domestic responsibilities of the pater familias included his priestly duties (sacra familiae) to his "household gods" (the lares and penates) and the ancestral gods of his own gens. The latter were represented by the di parentes as ancestral shades of the departed, and by the genius cult.
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 first of the gens to appear in history was Marcus Foslius Flaccinator, consular tribune in 433 BC.
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