Balbinus

Balbinus
Statue of Balbinus
Roman emperor
ReignApril/May – July/August 238[1]
PredecessorGordian I and II
SuccessorGordian III
Co-emperorPupienus
RivalMaximinus (until June)
Bornc. 178[2]
Died238 (aged approx. 60)
Rome, Italy
Names
Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus
Regnal name
Imperator Caesar Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus Pius Augustus

Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus[3] (died 238 AD) was Roman emperor with Pupienus for three months in 238, the Year of the Six Emperors.

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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."
  3. ^ Cooley, Alison E. (2012). The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy. Cambridge University Press. p. 497. ISBN 978-0-521-84026-2.