Pupienus

Names:

• ±164: Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus 
• February 238: Imperator Caesar Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus Augustus
• May 238: lynched by soldiers

Relatives:

• father: Clodius Maximus
• mother: Prima (?)
• married to: Pulchra (?)
• children: Titus Clodius Pupienus Pulcher Maximus; Marcus Pupienus Africanus; Pupiena Sextia Paulina Cethegilla

Early career:

• 164 Born
• Military tribune
• Praetor
• Proconsul in Bithynia
• Propraetor of Greece
• Propraetor of Narbonensis
• Commander of a legion along the Danube
• 205 or 217 Consul
• Propraetor in Germania Inferior or Superior
• Proconsul in Asia
• 234 Consul II
• Praefectus urbi

Main deeds:

• January 238: Insurrection of Gordian I and Gordian II; they are defeated by Capellianus;
• February 238: the Senate elects Pupienus and Balbinus; they adopt Gordianus III; Pupienus marches to the north
• Maximinus is killed by his own soldiers near Aquileia
• On Pupienus' return, he and Balbinus start to quarrel; both are killed by soldiers
• Damnatio memoriae

Links:

• biography included in the Historia Augusta,
• Herodian's History of the Roman Empire (Book 7 and 8)