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Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus (consul 58)

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Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus
Consul of the Roman Empire
In office
January 58 – June 58Serving with Nero (January to April), Gaius Fonteius Agrippa (May to June)
Personal details
Parent(s)Possibly Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus or Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus and Domitia Lepida the Younger
RelativesPossibly the brother of Valeria Messalina
Known forMember of the Arval Brethren

Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus was a Roman Senator who lived in the Roman Empire in the 1st century. He might have been the brother of empress Messalina.

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. 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, 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.

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 and then from May to June in 58AD, as a suffect consul with Gaius Fonteius Agrippa. Starting with his consulship, he was granted an annual half a million sesterces to maintain his senatorial qualifications.

References

  1. Biographischer Index der Antike, p.979
  2. Lucan, Civil War
  3. Paterculus, The Roman History, p.127
  4. Lucan, Civil War
  5. Shotter, Nero
  6. Der Neue Pauly, Stuttgart 1999, T. 12/1 c.1110
  7. 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 byNero II, and
Lucius Caesius Martialisas Suffect consuls 		Consul of the Roman Empire
58
with Nero III,
followed by Gaius Fonteius Agrippa 		Succeeded byAulus Petronius Lurco,
and Aulus Paconius Sabinusas Suffect consuls
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