Lucius Aurelius Commodus Pompeianus ( 177 – 211/212) was a

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active in the early 3rd century. He was the son of Lucilla, the daughter of

Marcus Aurelius Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Latin: áːɾkus̠ auɾέːli.us̠ antɔ́ːni.us̠ English: ; 26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 AD and a Stoic philosopher. He was the last of the rulers known as the Five Good E ...

, and her second husband Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus, a general active politically during the reigns of Emperors

Commodus Commodus (; 31 August 161 – 31 December 192) was a Roman emperor who ruled from 177 to 192. He served jointly with his father Marcus Aurelius from 176 until the latter's death in 180, and thereafter he reigned alone until his assassination. ...

and

Pertinax Publius Helvius Pertinax (; 1 August 126 – 28 March 193) was Roman emperor for the first three months of 193. He succeeded Commodus to become the first emperor during the tumultuous Year of the Five Emperors. Born the son of a freed slav ...

.John F. Oates
"A Sailor's Discharge and the Consuls of A. D. 209"
''Phoenix'', 30 (1976), pp. 282-287. Little is known of Pompeianus himself. As Oates expresses it, "He has a ringing name of great ''auctoritas'', but we do not know if he was ''capax imperii''." He dedicated an altar for the welfare of

Septimius Severus Lucius Septimius Severus (; 11 April 145 – 4 February 211) was Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He was born in Leptis Magna (present-day Al-Khums, Libya) in the Roman province of Africa. As a young man he advanced through the customary suc ...

and his family in

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while serving as military tribune in the Legio I Minervia, which would date his commission to the early years of Severus' reign, in the 190s.

Hans-Georg Pflaum Hans-Georg Pflaum (3 June 1902, Berlin – 26 December 1979, Linz) was a German-born French historian. Life Pflaum, who came from a Jewish family of industrialists, at first studied law in Breslau and Heidelberg, afterwards taking a position i ...

"Les gendres de Marc-Aurèle"
''Journal des savants'', 1 (1961), p. 33. In 209, he achieved the rank of

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. If Pompeianus became consul ''suo anno'', as John Oates suggests, then he was born in 177, and was five years old when his mother Lucilla was executed in the aftermath of a failed attempt to assassinate her brother Commodus. John Oates opines that he and his father Tiberius had retired to their country estates in 180 when Commodus ascended to the throne. In 211/212, he was executed by

Caracalla Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (born Lucius Septimius Bassianus, 4 April 188 – 8 April 217), better known by his nickname "Caracalla" () was Roman emperor from 198 to 217. He was a member of the Severan dynasty, the elder son of Emperor ...

, following the murder of Caracalla's brother Geta. H.-G. Pflaum notes that Caracalla took the precaution of making the murder appear to have been perpetrated by bandits. Lucius Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus (cos. ord. 231) and Clodius Pompeianus (cos. ord. 241) are likely to have been his sons.Pflaum, "Les gendres", p. 41.

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* Mennen, Inge, ''Power and Status in the Roman Empire, AD 193-284'' (2011) {{DEFAULTSORT:Aurelius Commodus Pompeianus, Lucius 177 births 210s deaths 2nd-century Romans category:3rd-century Romans category:Imperial Roman consuls Nerva–Antonine dynasty Commodus Pompeianus Executed ancient Roman people People executed by the Roman Empire