Valerian II

Valerian Valerian II Caesar or († 258), Publius Licinius Cornelius 's full name Egnatius Valerian, was the eldest son of the Roman Emperor Gallienus and the Empress Salonina and thus the grandson of the emperor Valerian, who reigned from 253 along with Gallienus. This epoch, the period of soldier-emperors, was marked by serious political, economic, social, and military shocks. Therefore, it is spoken by the imperial crisis of the 3rd century.

In the autumn of 256 Valerian to Caesar was charged. His upbringing familiar Gallienus to the officer Ingenuus, who held a larger military command in the province of Pannonia. The emperors Valerian and Gallienus took over on 1 January 257, the consulate in Rome, while the new Caesar, the responsibility for border security along the Danube fell to.

258 Valerian Caesar died in a military camp. After his death he was divinized, the Caesar title passed to his brother Saloninus. After the assassination of Gallienus (268 ), he was just like his father and his mother, at least temporarily under the Damnatio memoriae.