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Filiation meaning
The condition of being a child of a specified parent. | The ancestry or lineage shared by a group having the same bloodline. | The determination of paternity.
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Filiation Apart from the praenomen, the filiation was the oldest element of the Roman name.
Although filiation was common throughout the history of the Republic and well into imperial times, no law governed its use or inclusion in writing.
As with the filiation, it was common to abbreviate the name of the tribe.
Both inscriptions are from Roman Spain, and are also notable for the doubled nomen and for the cognomen Secunda, which in this case is really a praenomen placed after the filiation, a common practice in Roman women's names of this period.
In such cases, the filiation, if present, would indicate if someone were a freedman; but in these particular instances the nomina suggest citizens of provincial origin, who have been enfranchised by imperial decree.
Richter, p 154 Absenteeism among Irish abbots at the General Chapter became a persistent and much criticised problem in the 13th century, and escalated into the conspiratio Mellifontis, a "rebellion" by the abbeys of the Mellifont filiation.
The name of the tribe normally follows the filiation and precedes any cognomina, suggesting that it occurred before the cognomen was recognized as a formal part of the Roman name; so probably no later than the second century BC.
Watt, pp 56–57 Stephen dissolved the Mellifont filiation altogether, and subjected 15 monasteries to houses outside Ireland.