Lucius Vipstanus Messalla (consul 115)
Lucius Vipstanus Messalla was a Roman Senator who was consul ordinarius in AD 115 with Marcus Pedo Vergilianus as his colleague. Vergilianus was killed in an earthquake at the end of January and was replaced by Titus Statilius Maximus Severus Hadrianus, who completed the nundinium with Messalla.[1]
Ronald Syme states that Vipstanus Messalla was the son of Lucius Vipstanus Messalla.[2] The younger Messalla had a son named Lucius Vipstanus Poplicola Messalla.[3]
Descendants
- Lucius Vipstanus Messalla (c. 75 – after 115)
- Lucius Vipstanus Poplicola Messalla (c. 105 – after 140)
- Lucius Valerius Messalla Thrasea Priscus[4] (c. 156 – c. 212)
- Lucius Valerius Messalla Apollinaris[5] (? – ?)
- Lucius Valerius Claudius Acilius Priscillianus Maximus[6][7] (? – ?)
- Lucius Valerius Poplicola Balbinus Maximus[7] (? – ?)
- Lucius Valerius Messalla[8] (? – ?)
- Lucius Valerius Maximus Basilius[8][9] (? – ?)
- Lucius Valerius Maximus Basilius[10][9] (? – ?)
- Lucius Valerius Septimius Bassus (c. 328 – after 379 or 383)
- Valerius Adelphius Bassus (c. 360 – after 383)
- Valerius Adelphius (born c. 385)
- Adelphia (c. 410 – aft. 459)
- Valerius Adelphius (born c. 385)
- Valerius Adelphius Bassus (c. 360 – after 383)
- Valerius Maximus Basilius[8][9] (c. 330 – after 364)
- Valerius Publicola (? – ?)
- Melania the Younger[11] (c. 383 – December 31, 439)
- Two children, died young
- Melania the Younger[11] (c. 383 – December 31, 439)
- Other two sons
- Valerius Publicola (? – ?)
- Valeria (? – ?), issue unknown
- Lucius Valerius Septimius Bassus (c. 328 – after 379 or 383)
- Lucius Valerius Maximus Basilius[10][9] (? – ?)
- Lucius Valerius Maximus Basilius[8][9] (? – ?)
- Lucius Valerius Messalla[8] (? – ?)
- Lucius Valerius Poplicola Balbinus Maximus[7] (? – ?)
- Lucius Valerius Claudius Acilius Priscillianus Maximus[6][7] (? – ?)
- Lucius Valerius Messalla Apollinaris[5] (? – ?)
- Lucius Valerius Messalla Thrasea Priscus[4] (c. 156 – c. 212)
- Lucius Vipstanus Poplicola Messalla (c. 105 – after 140)
References
- ^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 468
- ^ Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press: 1986), p. 242
- ^ Syme, "Missing Persons III", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 11 (1962), p. 153
- ^ Mennen, Inge. Power and Status in the Roman Empire, AD 193-284 (2011), pg. 123.
- ^ Mennen, Inge. Power and Status in the Roman Empire, AD 193-284 (2011), pg. 125.
- ^ Settipani, Christian. Continuité gentilice et continuité sénatoriale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale (2000), pgs. 227-228.
- ^ a b Mennen, Inge. Power and Status in the Roman Empire, AD 193-284 (2011), pg. 124.
- ^ a b c Mennen, Inge. Power and Status in the Roman Empire, AD 193-284 (2011), pg. 127.
- ^ a b c Settipani, Christian, Continuité gentilice et continuité sénatoriale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale, (2000), pg. 229.
- ^ Potter, David S., The Roman Empire at Bay: AD 180-395 (2004), pg. 389
- ^ Schlitz, Carl. "St. Melania (the Younger)." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 15 Mar. 2013