| Balbinus | |||||||||
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| Roman emperor | |||||||||
| Reign | April/May – July/August 238[1] | ||||||||
| Predecessor | Gordian I and II | ||||||||
| Successor | Gordian III | ||||||||
| Co-emperor | Pupienus | ||||||||
| Rival | Maximinus (until June) | ||||||||
| Born | c. 178[2] | ||||||||
| Died | 238 (aged approx. 60) Rome, Italy | ||||||||
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| Part of a series on Roman imperial dynasties |
| Year of the Six Emperors |
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| AD 238 |
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Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus[3] (died 238 AD) was Roman emperor with Pupienus for three months in 238, the Year of the Six Emperors.
- ^ For length stimations see: Rea, J.R. (1972). "O. Leid. 144 and the Chronology of A.D. 238". ZPE 9, 1–19. No contemporary or later sources give any definitive conclusion.
- ^ Zonaras (c. 1120) Epitome xvii.17. "[Pupienus] Maximus was seventy-four years old, Albinus sixty. According to some they reigned about twenty-two days [referring to Gordian I and Gordian II], but according to others not quite three months."
- ^ Cooley, Alison E. (2012). The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy. Cambridge University Press. p. 497. ISBN 978-0-521-84026-2.