Gamaliel VI HaNasi

Gamaliel VI was the last Jewish patriarch (Nasi) in the Land of Israel, heir of a dynasty that traced itself to Hillel and had led Jewish life from Tiberias for generations. Roman law recognized the patriarch's authority over Jewish courts and over funds collected from Diaspora communities, and Gamaliel even held the honorary rank of praetorian prefect. In 415 a law of Theodosius II stripped him of that rank, accusing him of building new synagogues, judging disputes between Jews and Christians, and keeping Christian slaves (Theodosian Code 16.8.22).

He also appears in the work of the Latin physician Marcellus of Bordeaux, who records a remedy for ailments of the spleen attributed to "the patriarch Gamaliel." He died around 425 without a successor, and a law of 429 speaks of the time "after the passing of the patriarchs," sending the funds once paid to them to the imperial treasury.