MarcusClodiusPupienusMaximus and Decius Caelius Calvinus Balbinus (both died on July 29, 238) were elected co-emperors by the Roman senate on April 22, 238 after the failure of Gordian I and Gordian II to defeat the usurper Maximinus Thrax.
Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius, the thirteen-year-old grandson of Gordian I, was nominated as Caesar to appease the population of capital, which was still loyal to the Gordian family.
Pupienus was sent at the head of an army to face Maximinus, and Balbinus stayed in Rome.
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Clodius is the Roman nomen Claudius altered to a spelling that would have sounded plebeian to Roman ears.
The original alteration was a political maneuver by P. Clodius Pulcher.
Clodio the Longhair, a chieftain of the Salian Franks, is sometime called "Clodius I".
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With previous joint emperors, such as Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, there had been a clear understanding that one of the two was the senior emperor.
This measure was a very shrewd one, as it was not only popular but also granted the emperors access to Gordian's considerable family wealth with the help of which one distributed a cash bonus to the Roman population.
Pupienus now left Rome to lead an army north against Maximinus, whilst Balbinus staid in the capital.
Marcus Aurelius was son of Trajanus's great-grandnephew (and consequently grandson of the half-sister of Hadrianus's wife), and subsequently married Antoninus Pius's daughter Annia Galeria Faustina, and Lucius Verus was son of Lucius Ceionius Commodus, who had been Hadrianus's first choice as Caesar and Emperor-designate.
Petronius Maximus he was killed trying to flee Rome — presently under imminent threat of attack by Geiseric's Vandals — eleven weeks after donning the purple; Rome was plundered ("Vandalised") but spared a full-fledged due in large part to the intervention of the Bishop of Rome, St.
Petronius Maximus was succeeded by his master of the soldiers, Avitus, who was acclaimed at Tolosa with the backing of the Visigothic king, Theodoric II.
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Maximus, on the other hand, was of lowly origin, the son, according to some, of a flsmith, according to others, of a coacbmaker.
The populace, still clinging with aifection to the family of Gordian, and dreading the severity of Maximus, refused for a while to ratify the decision of the senate, and a serious tumult arose, which was not quelled until the grandson of Gordian, a boy of fourteen, was presented to the crowd and proclaimed Caesar.
While Pupienus was hastening to encounter Maximin, now under the walls of Aquileia, a formidable strife broke out at Rome between the citizens and the praetorians.
Pupienus was a distinguished soldier, who at the advanced age of 74 was chosen by the Senate with Balbinus to resist the barbarian Maximinus.
It was arranged that Pupienus should take the field against Maximinus, while Balbinus remained at Rome to maintain order, a task in which he signally failed.
With four bells there are 24 possible changes; with eight, 40,320; and with twelve, called the maximus, 479,001,600.
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On his march, Pupienus, having received the news that Maximinus had been assassinated by his own troops, returned in triumph to Rome.
Shortly afterwards, when both emperors were on the point of leaving the city on an expeditionPupienus against the Persians and Balbinus against the Gothsthe praetorians, who had always resented the appointment of the senatorial emperors and cherished the memory of the soldier-emperor Maximinus, seized the opportunity of revenge.
When most of the people were at the Capitoline games, they forced their way into the palace, dragged Balbinus and Pupienus through the streets, and put them to death.
This would mean that he was born in 178, at the end of the reign of the last of the "good emperors", Marcus Aurelius.
A riot in the city forced them to adopt the young Gordian III as their caesar, and other riots followed, in which the citizens of Rome attacked the soldiers of the imperial guard.
The soldiers knew that their relatives could be used as hostages by the two rebel emperors, and therefore killed the legitimate ruler of the Roman world.
They were not successful, reigning March 22, 238 - April 12, 238, and their coins, while available, are more expensive than I'm willing to pay.
The Senate next settled on Decius Caelius Calvinus Balbinus and MarcusClodiusPupienusMaximus as suitable replacements.
Balbinus is remembered as the favorite of the wealthy patricians, and got along poorly with his partner, said to have failed to protect themselves from assassination in July 238, each fearing a ruse by the other.
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Pupienus (Imperator Cæsar Maximi MarcusClodiusPupienus Augustus); sünninimi MarcusClodiusPupienusMaximus; 164 - mai 238 oli Vana-Rooma keiser veebruar 238 kuni surmani.
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Nice planchet Dark green and sand patina A very desirable and rare coin This coin refers to the defeat of Maximinus I engineered by Pupienus.
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