Messalla (consul 280)

(Lucius Valerius) Messalla^[1] (fl. 3rd century) was a Roman senator who was appointed consul in AD 280.

Biography

Messalla is assumed to be a member of the third century Patrician Gens Valeria, possibly the son of Lucius Valerius Poplicola Balbinus Maximus.^[2] In AD 280 he was appointed consul prior alongside Vettius Gratus.^[3]

It has been suggested that he had a son, Lucius Valerius Maximus Basilius, who was Praefectus Urbi of Rome in AD 319.^[4]

Martindale, J. R.; Jones, A. H. M, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. I AD 260-395, Cambridge University Press (1971)
Mennen, Inge, Power and Status in the Roman Empire, AD 193-284 (2011)

↑ Both the praenomen Lucius and the Nomen gentile Valerius are assumed.
↑ Mennen, pg. 127
↑ Martindale & Jones, pg. 599
↑ Settipani, Christian, Continuité gentilice et continuité sénatoriale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale, (2000) p. 229

Political offices
Preceded by Marcus Aurelius Probus, Nonius Paternus	Consul of the Roman Empire 280 with Vettius Gratus	Succeeded by Marcus Aurelius Probus, Junius Tiberianus

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