Gnaeus Fulvius Maximus Centumalus

Gnaeus Fulvius Maximus Centumalus was a Roman statesman in the first half of the 3rd century, from the gens Fulvia, who had BC won from the end of the 4th century increasingly important.

After the fasti Capitolini was Centumalus son and grandson of Gnaeus, his brother might be because of the identical filiation Marcus Fulvius Paetinus, consul 299 BC, have been. Related to them are certainly the simultaneous Fulvii Curvi, but the praenomen Lucius led.

As a legacy of Marcus Valerius Maximus Corvus he distinguished himself from 302 BC in the battle against the Etruscans through cunning. 298 he was consul with Lucius Cornelius Scipio barbatus. About the struggles of the consuls there in the sources of disagreement: After Livy Centumalus defeated the Samnites in Bovianum and captured this then together with the city Aufidena; According to Frontinus, he marched after Lucania, where demonstrably his colleague stood. He celebrated for his success on 13 November 298 a triumph over the Samnites and Etruscans. In the year 295, he moved with proprätorischem empire towards Clusium in Etruria, thus ensuring the withdrawal of Etruscan contingents before the Battle of Sentinum.

About 30 years after his consulship he was 263 dictator clavi figendi causa - a post which was last applied 50 years previously. Soon he will have died. Descendants were the consul of 229, Gnaeus Fulvius Centumalus, and the same consul of 211, who fell 210 against Hannibal.