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.
Family Background
Corvinus was a member of the Republican gens, Valeria. Corvinus was the namesake of Roman Senator and Augustan literacy patron Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus.[2] He could have been a son of the Roman Senator, consul Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus who was a son of Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus[3] or could have been a son of Roman consul Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus and Domitia Lepida the Younger, thus could have been a brother of Valeria Messalina, the third wife of Roman emperor Claudius.[4]
Political career
In 46/47, Corvinus was a member of the Arval Brethren. From January to April in 58, he served as an ordinary consul with the Roman emperor Nero[5] and then from May to June in 58, as a suffect consul with Gaius Fonteius Capito.[6] During his consulship, the Roman Senate paid him half a million sesterces as a subsidy for maintaining his senatorial census rank.[7]
References
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 Lucius Calpurnius Piso |
Consul of the Roman Empire with Nero III 58 |
Succeeded by Gaius Vipstanus Apronianus Gaius Fonteius Capito |