Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus (consul 58)
Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus[1] was a Roman Senator who lived in the Roman Empire in the 1st century.
Biography
Early life
Corvinus was a member of the Republican gens Valeria. Corvinus was the namesake of the Senator and Augustan literary patron Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus.[2] He may have been a son of the Senator and consul Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus, who was a son of Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus,[3] or possibly the son of the consul Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus and Domitia Lepida the Younger, thus making him the brother of Valeria Messalina, the third wife of the emperor Claudius.[4]
Political career
In 46/47AD, Corvinus was a member of the Arval Brethren. From January to April in 58AD, he served as an ordinary consul with the emperor Nero[5] and then from May to June in 58AD, as a suffect consul with Gaius Fonteius Agrippa.[6] Starting with his consulship, he was granted an annual half a million sesterces to maintain his senatorial qualifications.[7]
References
- Biographischer Index der Antike, p.979
- Lucan, Civil War
- Paterculus, The Roman History, p.127
- Lucan, Civil War
- Shotter, Nero
- Der Neue Pauly, Stuttgart 1999, T. 12/1 c.1110
- Tacitus, Annales xiii.34
Sources
- Tacitus, Annals of Imperial Rome
- D. Shotter, Nero (Google eBook) Routledge, 2012
- Lucan, Civil War (Google eBook), Penguin, 2012
- Velleius Paterculus – Translated with Introduction and Notes by J.C. Yardley & A.A. Barrett, The Roman History, Hackett Publishing, 2011
- Biographischer Index der Antike (Google eBook), Walter de Gruyter, 2001
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Nero II, and Lucius Caesius Martialis as Suffect consuls |
Consul of the Roman Empire 58 with Nero III, followed by Gaius Fonteius Agrippa |
Succeeded by Aulus Petronius Lurco, and Aulus Paconius Sabinus as Suffect consuls |