Titus Clodius Pupienus Pulcher Maximus

3rd century Roman politician and consul

Titus Clodius Pupienus Pulcher Maximus (c. 195 – aft. 224/226 or aft. 235 AD) was a Roman politician.

Life

He was appointed consul suffectus in the nundinium of 224 or 226, or perhaps of July 235. Titius Clodius was the son of Pupienus, later Emperor, and wife Sextia Cethegilla.^[1]

He married Tineia, the daughter of Quintus Tineius Sacerdos and Volusia Laodice. Together they had a son:

Lucius Clodius Tineius Pupienus Bassus – who assumed the Toga virilis at Rome early in the third century and was made proconsul of Crete and Cyrenaica in 240 A.D.^[2] He married Ovinia Paterna, daughter of Lucius Ovinius Pacatianus and Cornelia Optata Aquilia Flavia, and had a son:
- Marcus Tineius Ovinius Castus Pulcher – consul suffectus and pontiff before 274 AD. He had a son by an unknown mother:^[3]
  - Ovinius Tineius Tarrutenius Nonius Atticus (fl. 290 AD) – praetor and quindecimvir sacris faciundis. He married a woman named Maxima.^[3]

Family tree

Quintus Tineius Sacerdos Clemens
consul ordinarius

Marcus Pupienus Maximus

Quintus Tineius Clemens
consul ordinarius

Quintius Tineius Rufus
consul 182

Quintus Tineius Sacerdos
consul suffectus
∞ Volusia Laodice

Pupienus
Roman Emperor
(238)
∞ Sextia Cethegilla

Marcus Ulpius Leurus
senator

Tineia

Titus Clodius Pupienus Pulcher Maximus
consul suffectus

Marcus Pupienus Africanus Maximus
consul ordinarius
∞ Cornelia Marullina

Pupiena Sextia Paulina Cethegilla

Marcus Ulpius Eubiotus Leurus
suffect consul

Lucius Clodius Tineius Pupienus Bassus
proconsul
∞ Ovinia Paterna

References

^ Ronald Syme, Emperors and biography: studies in the Historia Augusta (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), p. 173
^ CIL VI, 41182.
^ ^a ^b Christian Settipani, Linacre College, Oxford University, coll. « Prosopographica & Genealogica », 2000, 597 p. ISBN 1-900934-02-7

Sources

Christian Settipani. Continuité gentilice et continuité sénatoriale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale, 2000^{[page needed]}