Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix

Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix (c. 22;? † 62) was a Roman politician and senator of the first century AD

Father's side he was descended from the son of Cornelius Sulla Felix and brother of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix by the dictator Sulla. His mother was Domitia Lepida, a granddaughter of Octavia and Mark Antony. Thus he was a member of the Julio- Claudian imperial family. As a half-brother Valeria Messalina ( she was the daughter of his mother's first marriage with Marcus Valerius Messala barbatus), he was also brother of the Emperor Claudius.

In AD 47, his half-sister arranged his marriage to Claudius ' daughter Antonia from the brief marriage to Aelia Paetina. Cassius Dio writes that Messalina had assassinated for this purpose Antonia's first husband. He also stressed that it would have been a good decision of Claudius, not to let the birth of Sulla and Antonia's son celebrate publicly.

Like his father, he was frater arvalis and in the year 52 together with Lucius Salvius Otho Titianus consul.

As a near- relatives, and son in law of Claudius Nero saw in Sulla a competitor in the occupation of the imperial throne. Even 56 was an indictment of Burrus, he had conspired together with the freedman Pallas against Nero to make his place Sulla to Caesar. It was based obviously on a malicious slander and therefore remained without consequences. Two years later, let Nero fake an assassination, he anhängte Sulla, because he thought its " apathetic character " for crafty adjustment of its ambitions to the throne. Sulla was exiled to Massilia. Although the Stoics Sulla lived modestly in exile, Nero saw him continue as a threat and had him murdered 62. It was only after his assassination, the concealed Nero in Rome, urged the Emperor that he and the also murdered Rubellius Plautus were excluded from the Senate, because they represented a threat to the state. Sulla's wife was also murdered by Nero, because she refused after death Poppaeas 65 to marry Nero.