Born circa 440 CE and related to the aristocratic Anician family of Rome, the Gallo-Roman Ruricius (d. 510 CE) became bishop of Limoges circa 485 CE. He is known primarily for his unpretentious collection of 83 letters, which survives in a single manuscript and portrays everyday life in Visigothic Aquitania in the decades after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.