sentences:  The details of his ancestry has been a subject of debate; Mathisen's explanation is that Ruricius was the son of a "Constantius" and a "Leontia" based on his premise that his paternal grandfather may have been Flavius Constantius Felix and his mother a member of the aristocratic familia Pontii Leontii of Burdigalia in Aquitania.Further evidence he provides includes (1) for Constantius, on the existence of an ivory consular diptych for Fl.Constantius Felix ("cos." 428), patrician and "magister militum" from 425-430 at Limoges  and the fact that Ruricius had a son of that name, and (2) for Leontia, the use of the name Leontius for Ruricius' brother and son.