Marcus Petronius Sura Mamertinus
Marcus Petronius Sura Mamertinus (died between 190-192 AD) was a Roman consul who lived in the 2nd century and was one of the sons-in-law of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Mamertinus came from a wealthy, well-connected family of African origin—possibly from Egypt. His father, Marcus Petronius Mamertinus, was suffect consul in 150 and his mother's name is unknown. He had a brother, Marcus Petronius Sura Septimianus, who served as consul in 190, and a sister whose husband was the illustrious senator Marcus Antoninus Antius Lupus. Mamertinus was a kinsman of the grammarian Marcus Cornelius Fronto.
During the reign of Marcus Aurelius (161-180) and Faustina the Younger (161-175), Mamertinus married their daughter Annia Cornificia Faustina Minor in Rome.
Sometime after 173, Cornificia Faustina bore Mamertinus a son, Petronius Antoninus.
Mamertinus and his family could have been at the winter camp of Marcus Aurelius in early 180. When Marcus Aurelius died later that year, Mamertinus' brother-in-law Commodus succeeded him as Emperor. In 182, Mamertinus served as consul. Sometime between 190-192, Commodus ordered the deaths of Mamertinus, his son, his brother and his sister’s family. Cornificia Faustina survived the political persecutions of her brother and later remarried.
Nerva–Antonine family tree[]
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- Martin M. Winkler, The Fall of the Roman Empire: Film and History (2009)
- Michael Petrus Josephus van den Hout, A commentary on the Letters of M. Cornelius Fronto (1999)
- Albino Garzetti, From Tiberius to the Antonines: a history of the Roman Empire AD 14-192 (1974)
- Faustina II livius.org (last accessed 27 February 2020)
- 2nd-century Romans
- Imperial Roman consuls
- Nerva–Antonine dynasty
- Petronii
- 190s deaths
- Executed ancient Roman people
- People executed by the Roman Empire