Licinius Valerianus (brother of Gallienus)

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Licinius Valerianus Minor (died 268) was the son of Roman emperor Valerian and his second wife Cornelia Gallonia, and half-brother of Gallienus.

Life[]

In a nundinium sometime between 253 and 264 he was made suffect consul, and was appointed ordinary consul in 265.[1] He died in the wake of his brother's assassination in the autumn of 268 as his paternal nephew Publius Licinius Egnatius Marinianus, in a purge against Gallienus' partisans; Joannes Zonaras reported that he was killed at Rome, whereas Eutropius and the Historia Augusta state that he was murdered at Mediolanum.[2]

Family tree of Licinia gens[]

Aulus Egnatius Priscillianus
philosopher
Quintus Egnatius Proculus
consul suffectus
Lucius Egnatius Victor
Egnatius Victor Marinianus
consul suffectus
1.MarinianaVexilloid of the Roman Empire.svg
Valerian
Roman Emperor
253-260
2.Cornelia Gallonia
previous
Aemilianus
Roman Emperor
253
Vexilloid of the Roman Empire.svg
(1) Gallienus
Roman Emperor
253-268
Cornelia Salonina
(2) Valerianus Minor
consul suffectus
Claudius Gothicus
Roman Emperor
268-270
Quintillus
Roman Emperor
270
next
Aurelian
Roman Emperor
270-275
Valerian II
caesar
Saloninus
co-emperor
Publius Licinius Egnatius Marinianus
consul 268

References[]

  1. ^ Jones, A. H. M.; Martindale, J. R.; Morris, J, The Prosopography of the later Roman Empire, Vol. I, AD 260-395 (1971), pgs 939 & 1046
  2. ^ Jones & Martindale, pg. 939
Political offices
Preceded by
Gallienus
Saturninus
Roman consul
265
with Egnatius Lucillus
Succeeded by


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