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	Pupienus and Balbinus - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus and Decius Caelius Calvinus Balbinus (both died on July 29, 238) were two Roman co-emperors elected by the Roman senate on April 22, 238 after the failure of Gordian I and Gordian II to defeat the usurper Maximinus Thrax.
		Pupienus, born about 178, was an example of ascension in the Roman hierarchical system due to military success.
		Pupienus was sent at the head of an army to face Maximinus, and Balbinus stayed in Rome.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Pupienus_and_Balbinus (513 words)

	Pupienus and Balbinus: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus and Decius Caelius Calvinus Balbinus (both died on July 29, 238 (238: more facts about this subject)) were elected co-emperors (co-emperors: more facts about this subject) by the Roman senate (Roman senate: the roman senate (lat., senatus) was a deliberative body which was important in the government...
		Pupienus, born about 178 (178: more facts about this subject), was an example of ascension in the Roman hierarchical system due to military success.
		They were planning an enormous double campaign, Pupienus against the Parthians and Balbinus against the Carpians (Carpians: the carpi or carpians were a dacian tribe that were originally located on the eastern...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/pupienus_and_balbinus (637 words)

	Pupienus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Meeting in the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitol, the senate now chose from these twenty Balbinus and Pupienus, to be their new emperors, - and to defeat the despised Maximinus.
		Meanwhile Balbinus back in Rome had a serious crisis on his hands, when two senators, Gallicanus and Maecenas, had a group of praetorians, entering the senate, killed.
		Balbinus whose standing had suffered greatly during the mayhem which had befallen the capital felt threatened by his colleagues triumphant return.
	www.roman-empire.net /decline/pupienus.html (726 words)

	The Roman Principate: The Barrack Emperors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Balbinus and Pupienus: A patrician, Balbinus was a Salian priest, twice a consul, and proconsul in Asia.
		When the enraged populace besieged the Senate and emperors in the Capitol, Balbinus and Pupienus extricated themselves by appointing as caesar the young Gordianus, grandson of the original leader of the revolt.
		After the defeat of the deposed emperor Maximinus, the guards rioted and killed Balbinus and Pupienus; in August 238 Gordianus III became sole emperor.
	www.societasviaromana.org /Collegium_Historicum/principate6.php?lang=ne (2401 words)

	Pupienus - Portrait Gallery of Roman Emperors on Coins
		Pupienus and Balbinus were appointed jointly and died together, so we give below their joint history.
		Balbinus and Pupienus were chosen by the Senate to be joint-emperors in AD244 after the deaths of Gordian I and Gordian II.
		Balbinus and Pupienus deserved a better fate but their attempts to restore order were too heavy-handed.
	www.24carat.co.uk /pupienus.html (503 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Pupienus and Balbinus
		Since Pupienus and Balbinus were in Rome, the coins probably feature a good likeness of the emperors.Pupienus appears as rather thin with a full beard, in sharp contrast to the "heavily jowled" and short-bearded Balbinus.
		Pupienus and Balbinus were assassinated and Gordian III proclaimed as sole Augustus.
		[[4]]Herodian, VII, 5-6; SHA, Maximus and Balbinus, VIII.
	www.roman-emperors.org /pupi.htm (1684 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Gordian III
		Pupienus, moreover, had been an unpopular urban prefect, and many ordinary Romans were quite willing to take part in rioting against his accession.
		After the death of Maximinus at the siege of Aquileia, perhaps in early June 238, [[8]] conflicts between the two emperors Pupienus and Balbinus, and among the emperors, soldiers and ordinary Romans, came to the fore.
		Pupienus and Balbinus suffered damnatio memoriae, though it is difficult to ascertain how many other members of the senatorial elite (if any) were either dismissed from their posts or executed by the new regime.
	www.roman-emperors.org /gordo3.htm (1963 words)

	Balbinus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The date of birth of Balbinus is not clearly known.
		Balbinus was the son, either by birth or by adoption, of a high standing Roman named Caelius Calvinus (a member of the Salian priesthood and therefore a patrician).
		He had a distinguished senatorial career, becoming consul in AD 203 and 213,and held governorships of no less than seven provinces, the last two being Asia and Africa.
	www.roman-empire.net /decline/balbinus.html (742 words)

	Gordian III
		Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius (224-244), grandson of the elder Gordian was raised to emperor (238 - 244) as a boy of thirteen following the death of his father and grandfather against Maximinus Thrax.
		Maximinus forthwith invaded Italy, but was murdered by his own troops while besieging Aquileia, and a revolt of the Praetorian Guards, to which Pupienus and Balbinus fell victims, left Gordian sole emperor.
		For some time he was under the control of his mother's eunuchs, till Timesitheus[?], his father-in-law and praefect of the praetorian guard, persuaded him to assert his independence.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/go/Gordian_III.html (186 words)

	Detail Page
		Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus was possibly of low birth, although the details of his life are rendered unclear by the wholly unreliable account in the Historia Augusta (see Scriptores Historiae Augustae).
		Both Gordians, whom the Senate had supported, were killed in 238, and Pupienus was raised with Balbinus to the throne.
		The wild reception given to Pupienus upon his return to Rome was irksome to Balbinus, who also resented the German bodyguard retained by his colleague.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=ROME1414 (404 words)

	Roman timeline from 235AD to 268AD
		The revolt continued in Rome, with the senators Pupienus and Balbinus proclaimed emperors, and Gordian's grandson Gordian III proclaimed Caesar.
		The uprising against Maximinus Thrax continued in Rome, with the senators Pupienus and Balbinus proclaimed emperors, and Gordian II's sister's son Gordian III proclaimed Caesar.
		Before their deaths Pupienus was planning an expedition against the Persians and Balbinus against the Germans The length of their joint rule is generally given as 99 days.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /temetfutue/timeline/tl_Imperial-b.htm (17307 words)

	Gordian I; Gordian II; Pupienus and Balbinus
		Pupienus appears to have been from Etruria, and to have been born between 170 and 175 AD.
		The careers of the four emperors accepted by the senate who did not survive 238 (Pupienus and Balbinus were murdered in May) offer a good cross section of the different types of people who had risen to the top of the governing aristocracy at this time.
		This led to a riot, sparked by friends of the deceased Gordian, and Gordian's thirteen-year old grandson was proclaimed as Caesar to Pupienus and Balbinus.
	www.umich.edu /~classics/programs/class/cc/372/sibyl/en/Gordian_I;_Gordian_II;_Pupienus_and_Balbinus.html (1653 words)

	R1601
		They therefore elected two of their number, Pupienus and Balbinus, as joint rulers.
		The assassins took the heads of Maximinus and his son to Ravenna, where Pupienus was mustering troops, and then to Rome.
		Pupienus disbanded the forces of both sides and he returned to Rome.
	www.aoti76.dsl.pipex.com /coins/r4/r1601.htm (349 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Pupienus Pupienus (Louvre, Paris) Pupienus: emperor of the Roman world (238), co-emperor of Balbinus.
		In 238 A.D., Balbinus and Pupienus were appointed as joint Roman Emperors, their reign lasted 98 days, we show a Roman silver antoninianus of each issued that year.
		Pupienus Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus was possibly of low birth, although the details of his life are rendered unclear by the wholly unreliable account in the Historia Augusta (see Scriptores...
	pupienus.iqexpand.com /index.php?title=Carpians&action=edit (691 words)

	Balbinus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Balbinus was a Roman senator who was proclaimed emperor by the Senate along with another senator, Pupienus on April 22, A.D. Much of the empire was in revolt against the hated Maximinus I, who had imposed a harsh taxation policy upon the Senate and citizens of Rome.
		Pupienus was to take an army north to meet Maximinus, while Balbinus remained in Rome to control rioting between the people and members of the Praetorian Guard.
		When Pupienus tried to impose stricter discipline over the Praetorian Guard, both he and Balbinus were kidnapped and murdered by the Guard on July 29.
	users2.ev1.net /~legionary/mainevent/coins/Balbinus.html (186 words)

	Pupienus and Balbinus: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Pupienus was sent at the head of an army to face Maximinus, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
		Balbinus had not managed to control the situation and the city had burned in a fire resulting in mutiny, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
		Pupienus against the Parthians and Balbinus against the Carpians (The carpi or carpians were a dacian tribe that were originally located on the eastern slopes of the carpathian...)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/pupienus_and_balbinus (1316 words)

	238 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		April 22 - Pupienus and Balbinus become Roman Emperors.
		July 29 - Gordian III becomes Emperor on the deaths of Pupienus and Balbinus.
		July 29 - Pupienus and Balbinus, Roman Emperors
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/238 (154 words)

	Pupienus and Balbinus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Decius Caelius Calvinus Balbinus and Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus were elected co-emperors by the Roman Senate in 238 after the deaths of the two Gordians.
		After news of Maximinus's murder reached Rome, tensions increased between the Senate and the Praetorian Guard.
		While the rest of the city was preoccupied with the Capitoline Games[?], members of the Guard entered the imperial palace and dragged the two Emperors into the street, where Pupienus and Balbinus were killed.
	www.termsdefined.net /pu/pupienus-and-balbinus.html (277 words)

	Tyre - GordianIII - Ambrosial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Senate, having supported the Gordian rebellion, expecting no mercy, so in defiance they gambled and declared two elderly senators "Pupienus" and "Balbinus" as joint emperors.
		However, the Roman people did not have any regard for the two patricians and demanded that the new emperor be from the Gordian family.
		Pupienus and Balbinus were seized dragged naked through the streets of Rome, mutilated and murdered.
	www.ancientcash.info /page-3/romeprovential-GordianIII-15.html (317 words)

	Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus, marble bust; in the Villa Albani, Rome.
		A patrician, Balbinus was a Salian priest, twice a consul, and proconsul in Asia.
		In 238, when the Senate led a rebellion of the Italian cities against Maximinus (emperor 235–238), it placed the government in the hands of a board of 20, one of whom was Balbinus, and then chose Balbinus and Pupienus Maximus to be joint emperors.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9011915?tocId=9011915 (429 words)

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		Pupienus then contacted spies in Maximinus's camp, who charged his tent in the middle of the night and stabbed him to death.
		But Pupienus and Balbinus would not survive him for long.
		Later that year, they were murdered by their own guards, and leaving the 13 year old Gordian III as the sole Emperor of Rome.
	www.wildwinds.com /coins/sear/s2488.2.txt (683 words)

	Clodius Pupienus Maximus et D. Caelius Calvinus Balbinus - Last Gasp of the Senate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		His short reign is marked by constant wars with the barbarians and fellow claimants: Gordian I and Gordian II, then Pupienus and Balbinus.
		Pupienus' family may also have had connections to some of the richest individuals in Athens.[[8]]
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	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/411031 (1629 words)

	Roman Coins of Pupienus
		Pupienus, 22 April - 29 July 238 A.D. Pupienus was elected along with Balbinus to end the reign of the brutal thug Maximinus.
		However, the general population and more importantly the Praetorian guard held little respect for the two ex-senators and they were murdered after a reign of 99 days.
		The reverse refers to the mutual clarity or shared vision of the emperors Balbinus and Pupienus.
	www.forumancientcoins.com /roman-coins.asp?vpar=739&pos=0 (417 words)

	Wikipedia: 238
		Ancient Town of Aquileia took the side of senate against Roman Emperor Maximinus Thrax
		Gordian III becomes Roman Emperor on the deaths of Pupienus and Balbinus.
		The Roman Colosseum is restored after being damaged.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/2/23/238.html (128 words)

	Balbinus and Pupienus (238) - Reviews on RateItAll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		When the Senate rebelled against Maximinus, they chose Balbinus and Pupienus to be joint emperors.
		Pupienus was extremely unpopular with the citizens of Rome, who promptly besieged the Senate.
		When he returned, the two emperors quarrelled and were kidnapped and later murdered by the Praetorian guard.
	www.rateitall.com /i-58190-balbinus-and-pupienus-238.aspx (123 words)

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		They elected two of their own, Pupienus and Balbinus, as new Emperors.
		Pupienus contacted spies in Maximinus's camp, who charged his tent in the middle of the night and stabbed him to death.
		Later that year, they were murdered by their own guards, making the year 238 the single bloodiest year for Roman emperors, with five emperors dying violently in a single year.
	www.wildwinds.com /coins/ric/maximinus_I/RIC_0012.3.txt (823 words)

	Eutropius: Abridgement of Roman History, Book 9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		—Three emperors at once, Pupienus, Balbinus, and Gordian; Gordian becomes sole emperor, and goes to war with Persia, II.
		There were then three emperors at the same time, PUPIENUS, BALBINUS, and GORDIAN, the two former of very obscure origin, the last of noble birth; for the elder Gordian, his father, had been chosen prince by the consent of the soldiery in the reign of Maximin, when he held the proconsulship of Africa.
		When Balbinus and Pupienus came to Rome, they were killed in the palace; and the empire was given to Gordian alone.
	www.forumromanum.org /literature/eutropius/trans9.html (3119 words)

	DIRECTORY - HISTORY BALBINUS AND PUPIENUS - SOCIETY AND HISTORY BALBINUS AND PUPIENUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		»Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus - Biography of the life and brief reign of the Roman Emperor Balbinus.
		»The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire - Vol 1 - Chapter VII Part II - From Edward Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire," details the co-rule of the empire by Balbinus and Pupienus.
		»Pupienus and Balbinus - Overview of the lives and reigns of these two co-rulers of the Roman Empire.
	www.themusichype.com /dir/Society/History/By_Time_Period/Ancient/Rome/People/Roman_Emperors/Balbinus_and_Pupienus (134 words)

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