Marcus Pupienus Africanus Maximus

Summary

Marcus Pupienus Africanus Maximus (c. 200 – aft. 236 AD) was a Roman Senator.

Life edit

He was consul ordinarius in 236 as the colleague of emperor Maximinus I.[1] Maximus was the son of Pupienus, later emperor, and Sextia Cethegilla.[2]

He married Cornelia Marullina, born c. 205, daughter of Lucius Cornelius Cossonius Scipio Salvidius Orfitus and wife, and had two children: Pupiena Sextia Paulina Cethegilla, born c. 225 and named after her paternal aunt, who married Marcus Maecius Probus, and Publius Pupienus Maximus.

Family tree edit

Quintus Tineius Sacerdos Clemens
consul ordinarius
Marcus Pupienus Maximus
Quintus Tineius Clemens
consul ordinarius
Quintius Tineius Rufus
consul 182
Quintus Tineius Sacerdos
consul suffectus
∞ Volusia Laodice
Pupienus
Roman Emperor
(238)
∞ Sextia Cethegilla
Marcus Ulpius Leurus
senator
TineiaTitus Clodius Pupienus Pulcher Maximus
consul suffectus
Marcus Pupienus Africanus Maximus
consul ordinarius
∞ Cornelia Marullina
Pupiena Sextia Paulina CethegillaMarcus Ulpius Eubiotus Leurus
suffect consul
Lucius Clodius Tineius Pupienus Bassus
proconsul
∞ Ovinia Paterna

References edit

  1. ^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 476
  2. ^ Ronald Syme, Emperors and biography : studies in the Historia Augusta (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), pp. 173f
  • Christian Settipani. Continuité gentilice et continuité sénatoriale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale, 2000[page needed]
Political offices
Preceded by
Gnaeus Claudius Severus,
and Lucius Titus Claudius Quintianus
Consul of the Roman Empire
236
with Maximinus Thrax
Succeeded by
Lucius Marius Perpetuus, and
Lucius Mummius Felix Cornelianus