Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus (July/August 238 AD) was Roman emperor with Pupienus for three months in 238, the Year of the Six Emperors.
Balbinus was a Roman emperor who ruled jointly with another emperor named Pupienus for just three months during 238 AD, a chaotic year when six different men claimed the imperial throne. He represents one of the many short-lived attempts to stabilize Rome's leadership during a period of extreme political instability.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Top works
via Open Library + Wikidata
Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus (July/August 238 AD) was Roman emperor with Pupienus for three months in 238, the Year of the Six Emperors.
== Origins and career == Not much is known about Balbinus before his elevation to emperor. It has been conjectured that he descended from Publius Coelius Balbinus Vibullius Pius, the consul ordinarius of 137, and wife Aquilia. If this were true, he was also related to the family of Q. Pompeius Falco, which supplied many politicians of consular rank throughout the 3rd century, and to the 1st-century politician, engineer and author Julius Frontinus. He was born around 178. He was a patrician from birth, and was the son (either by birth or adoption) of Caelius Calvinus, who was legate of Cappadocia in 184. He was one of the Salii priests of Mars. According to Herodian he had governed provinces, but the list of seven provinces given in the unreliable Historia Augusta, as well as the statement that Balbinus had been both Proconsul of Asia and of Africa, are likely to be mere invention. He had certainly been twice consul; his first consulate is not certainly known but is believed to have been about 203 or in July 211; he was consul for the second time in 213 as colleague of Caracalla, which suggests he enjoyed that emperor's favour.
via Wikipedia infobox
via Wikidata · CC0
via Wikidata · CC0
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).