Valeria (gens)
Valerius was the gentile name of Roman gens Valeria, one of the oldest families of the city ( gentes maiores ). The name was throughout Roman history in use.
Identity
The ancient patrician family should have immigrated under the king Titus Tatius. The name derived from the Old Individual names Valesus / Valerus (variant caused by rhotacism ), originally was Valesios; 312 BC led the censor Appius Claudius the new spelling Valerius. Since the name in antiquity ( etymologically correct) was derived from valere ( to be strong in Latin ), he was especially true in the military as a good omen. The literary tradition about the family history, which was probably heavily embellished by the annalist Valerius Antias, paints a picture of one - unlike the proverbial arrogance of Claudian - "people friendly " attitude of the first Valerii what the talking epithet Poblicola and the introduction or. renewal of the laws on provocatio is by Valerii.
The palace of the Valerii was until the late Roman period on the Caelian Hill. Testified that honor right of a sella curulis in the Circus Maximus, and since time immemorial, a house and a later disused burial ground on the Velia in Rome, a family monument adorned with honorary inscriptions.
Branches of the gene
The family shared in the 5th century BC in the Maximilian and the Poplicolae. In the 3rd century BC, the epithet Poplicola by Flaccus and Laevinus, Maximus was replaced by Messala. The most important branch formed since the Flacci who presented six generations of C. Valerius Flaccus consuls since. The line of Messalae continued until well into the first century.
Still a consul Lucius Valerius Proculus Aradius (340 ), was considered a descendant of the Republican Valerii.
Plebeian branches of the family were the Tappones and the Triarii.
Poplicolae
- Publius Valerius Poplicola, Consul 509, 508, 507 and 504 BC
- Publius Valerius Poplicola, consul 475 and 460 BC
- Lucius Valerius Poplicola Potitus, Roman consul 449 BC
- Lucius Valerius Poplicola, Konsulartribun 394, 389, 387, 383 and 380 BC
- Publius Valerius Potitus Poplicola, Konsulartribun 386, 384, 380, 377, 370 and 367 BC
- Marcus Valerius Poplicola, consul 355 and 353 BC
- Publius Valerius Poplicola, 352 BC
Volusi and Potiti
- Marcus Valerius ( Volusus? ), Consul 505 BC
- Lucius Valerius Potitus, consul 483 and 470 BC
- Lucius Valerius Poli Cola Potitus, consul 449 BC
- Gaius Valerius Potitus Volusus, Konsulartribun 415 BC; Consul 410 BC
- Lucius Valerius Potitus, Konsulartribun 414, 406, 403, 401, 398 BC; Consul in 393 and 392 BC
- Gaius Valerius Potitus (consul 331 BC ), Roman consul in 331 BC
Maximilian
- Marcus Valerius Maximus, consul 456 BC
- Manius Valerius Maximus Corvinus Messala, consul 263 BC
- Marcus Valerius Maximus Corvinus, consul 312 and 289 BC; Censor 307 BC
- Marcus Valerius Maximus ( Potitus? ), Consul 286 BC
- Marcus Valerius Maximus Messala, consul 226 BC
- Valerius Maximus, historian, 1st century.
- Lucius Valerius Claudius Acilius Priscilianus Maximus, Consul 233 and 256
- Lucius Valerius Poplicola Balbinus Maximus, Consul 253
Laevini
- Publius Valerius Laevinus, consul in 280 BC
- Marcus Valerius Laevinus, Suffektkonsul 220 BC, consul 210 BC
- Gaius Valerius Laevinus, Suffektkonsul 176 BC
Faltones
- Quintus Valerius FALTO, consul 239 BC
- Publius Valerius FALTO, consul 238 BC
- Marcus Valerius FALTO, praetor 201 BC
Flacci
- Publius Valerius Flaccus, consul 227 BC
- Gaius Valerius Flaccus ( praetor 183 BC), praetor 183 BC
- Gaius Valerius Flaccus (consul 93 BC), consul 93 BC
- Lucius Valerius Flaccus (consul 261 BC ), Roman politician
- Lucius Valerius Flaccus (consul 195 BC ), Roman politician
- Lucius Valerius Flaccus (consul 152 BC ), Roman politician
- Lucius Valerius Flaccus (consul 131 BC ), Roman politician
- Lucius Valerius Flaccus (consul 100 BC) († between 73 BC and 69 BC ), Roman politician
- Lucius Valerius Flaccus ( Suffektkonsul 86 BC) († 85 BC ), Roman politician
- Lucius Valerius Flaccus ( praetor 63 BC ) ( † after 56 BC ), Roman politician
- Lucius Valerius Flaccus ( Suffektkonsul 128 ), Roman politician
- Gaius Valerius Flaccus, poet 1st century.
Messallae
- Manius Valerius Maximus Corvinus Messala, consul 263 BC
- Marcus Valerius Messala (consul 188 BC ), Roman consul 161 BC
- Marcus Valerius Messala (consul 161 BC ), Roman consul 161 BC
- Valerius Aedituus, poet around 100 BC
- Marcus Valerius Messala Niger, consul 61 BC
- Marcus Valerius Messala Rufus, consul 53 BC
- Marcus Valerius Messala Corvinus, consul in 31 BC
- Potitus Valerius Messala, consul 29 BC
- Marcus Valerius Messala Barbatus Appianus, consul 12 BC
- Marcus Valerius Messala Messallinus, Consul 3 BC
- Lucius Valerius Messala Volesus, Consul 5
- Marcus Valerius Messala Messallinus, Consul 20
- Marcus Valerius Messala Corvinus, consul 58
- Lucius Valerius Messala Thrasea Priscus, consul 196
- Lucius Valerius Messala, consul 214
Other
- Marcus Valerius Maximus Lactuca, Roman consul 437 BC
- Marcus Valerius Maximus Lactucinus, Roman Konsulartribun 398 BC
- Marcus Valerius Corvus, Consul 348, 346, 343, 335, 300 and 299 BC, Dictator 342 and 301 BC
- Lucius Valerius Proculus Aradius, Roman politician and consul (340 )
- Valerius Antias, chronicler 1st century BC
- Quintus Valerius Soranus, tribune of 82 BC
- Publius Valerius Cato, scholar, poet 1st century BC
- Decimus Valerius asiaticus, Suffektkonsul 35 and Consul 46
- Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial ), poet 1st century.
- Gaius Valerius Festus, Suffektkonsul 71
- Decimus Valerius asiaticus Saturninus, Roman consul Suffektkonsul 94 and 125
- Lucius Valerius Licinianus, lawyer first century.
- Valerius Probus, a grammarian 1st century.
- Marcus Valerius Bradua Mauricus, Consul 191
- Gaius Valerius Pudens, a Roman consul and senator
- Publius Valerius Comazon, Consul 220
- Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletian ( Diocletian ), emperor.
- Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus ( Maximian ), emperor.
- Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus ( Galerius ), emperor.
- Flavius Valerius Constantinus ( Constantius Chlorus ), emperor.
- Flavius Valerius Severus, Emperor 306-307.
- Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius ( Maxentius ), Emperor 306-312.
- Valerius Romulus, son of the former things; Consul 308 and 309
- Flavius Julius Valerius Crispus ( Crispus ).
- Flavius Valerius Licinius Licinianus ( Licinius ), emperor.
- Flavius Valerius Constantinus ( Constantine I ), emperor.
- Galerius Valerius Maximinus ( Maximinus Daia ), emperor.
- Julius Valerius Alexander Polemius, scholar 4th century.
- Julius Valerius Polemius, late antique Translator
- Julius Valerius Majorian ( Majorian ), Emperor 457-461.
- Flavius Valerius Leo, Emperor 457-474.
The family also includes Valeria Messalina, third wife of the Emperor Claudius.