Marcus_Pupienus_Africanus_Maximus

Marcus Pupienus Africanus Maximus

Marcus Pupienus Africanus Maximus

Consul of the Roman Empire in 236

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

Life

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

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

  1. [1]
    Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 476
  2. [2]
    Ronald Syme, Emperors and biography : studies in the Historia Augusta (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), pp. 173f
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