Gnaeus Claudius Severus

Gnaeus Claudius Severus (c. 133) was a Roman politician and senator in the 2nd century AD

Severus came from Pompeiopolis in Paphlagonia and was a son of Gnaeus Claudius Severus Arabianus who held the consulship in 146. Severus was Peripatetics and married to his second wife Annia Aurelia 167 Galeria Faustina, the daughter of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. In 200, his son from this marriage, Tiberius Claudius Severus Proculus was consul. In Gnaeus Claudius Severus first marriage was probably married to Ummidia Quadrata, a niece of Marcus Aurelius. Marcus Claudius Ummidius Quadratus, who was involved in the assassination of Commodus in the context of Lucilla Conspiracy and 182 executed by his orders, was probably his son from this marriage.

Severus' first consulate is not precisely datable; he has but it probably started later than 162. His second consulate had Severus held in the year 173. In the following years, he entered politics no longer produced, but was one of the intellectual centers of the circles in the Rome of his time and had great influence on Marcus Aurelius. So the connection between the Emperor and the Sophists Cornelianus Sulpicius Severus and was probably made about the famous physician Galen was his recommendation of the emperor 's personal physician. 176 he accompanied his father Marcus Aurelius to Athens.