Valens as a Title Author(s): Norman H. Baynes Reviewed work(s): Source: The English Historical Review, Vol. 28, No.

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Valens as a Title
IN a paper on Rore and Armenia in the Fourth Centuryl I hazarded the suggestion that Faustus, in his history of Armenia, had used the name Valens in the sense of Caesar, and that this title according to the context really referred to Constantius, Julian, or the true Valens. This in itself seemed so unlikely a confusion that I am glad to find that it is probably not without a parallel. In the Syriac life of the Nestorian patriarch Jabalaha III (or perhaps II Duval 2), who accompanied the monk Sauma when the latter was dispatched to Rome from China by Il-Chan Argun in 1287,3 we read that from the shore of the Black Sea the patriarch sailed to Byzantium, where he was received by the king, BSLIWS. Chabot, in his translation,4 writes, ' I a pris le titre de /acro-LXE pour le nom du prince.' On this, however, Vollers 5 remarks, 'Bei dieser Annahme muss das I im Namen auffallen. K6nnte man nicht annehmen, dass der Name des iiberragenden Basilius des Bulgarent6ters in Vorderasien zum "'Byzantinerkaiser " verallgemeinert ist, wie Kisra-Chosrau zum Perserk6nig und Kaisar-Caesar zum R6merkaiser ?' This I believe to be the true explanation, and if this is so the passage lends some support to the suggested use of the name Valens in the
history of Faustus. NORMAN H. BAYNES.

Burgundian Notes
III.1 THE UNION OF THE TWO KINGDOMS OF BURGUNDY

are HISTORIANS agreed that about the year 933 a treaty was made between two Burgundian rivals for the crown of Lombardy, which resulted in the kingdom of Lower Burgundy, or Provence, becoming joined to that of Upper or Jurane Burgundy. The
1 Ante, xxv. (1910) 625-43. 3Ante, xiv. (1899) 299-318.
4

Journ. Asiat. (1889).

Histoire de Mar Jabalaha III et du moine Cauma(Paris, 1895), p. 55, n. 1.

5Byz. Zeitschr., vi. (1897) 592, n. 7.

The preceding notes appeared in vol. xxvi. 310 and xxvii. 299.