Titus Clodius Pupienus Pulcher Maximus Explained

Titus Clodius Pupienus Pulcher Maximus (c. 195  - aft. 224/226 or aft. 235 AD) was a Roman politician.

Life

He was appointed consul suffectus in the nundinium of 224 or 226, or perhaps of July 235. Titius Clodius was the son of Pupienus, later Emperor, and wife Sextia Cethegilla.^[1]

He married Tineia, the daughter of Quintus Tineius Sacerdos and Volusia Laodice. Together they had a son:

• Lucius Clodius Tineius Pupienus Bassus – who assumed the Toga virilis at Rome early in the third century and was made proconsul of Crete and Cyrenaica in 240 A.D.^[2] He married Ovinia Paterna, daughter of Lucius Ovinius Pacatianus and Cornelia Optata Aquilia Flavia, and had a son:
  • Marcus Tineius Ovinius Castus Pulcher – consul suffectus and pontiff before 274 AD. He had a son by an unknown mother:^[3]
    • Ovinius Tineius Tarrutenius Nonius Atticus (fl. 290 AD) – praetor and quindecimvir sacris faciundis. He married a woman named Maxima.

Sources

• Christian Settipani. Continuité gentilice et continuité sénatoriale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale, 2000

Notes and References

1. Ronald Syme, Emperors and biography: studies in the Historia Augusta (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), p. 173
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3. [Christian Settipani]