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Faustus Cornelius Sulla (consul 31)

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Faustus Cornelius Sulla was a Roman senator who lived during the reign of the emperor Tiberius. He was suffect consul in AD 31 with Sextus Tedius Valerius Catullus as his colleague.[1] Faustus was the son of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Faustus, and a great-grandnephew of the famed statesman Lucius Cornelius Sulla. His mother was Sextia and his brother was Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix.[2]

In 21, Faustus married Domitia Lepida the Younger. She was a child of Antonia Major by Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 16 BC), a great niece of Emperor Augustus and a granddaughter to Octavia Minor and Triumvir Mark Antony. Lepida had two children from her previous marriage to Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus: Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, and the Empress Messalina, third wife of the Emperor Claudius.[3]

Domitia Lepida bore Faustus a son called Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix (22-62), who later married Claudia Antonia, a daughter of Claudius. Faustus died of uncertain causes around 40.

References

  1. ^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 460
  2. ^ Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 267
  3. ^ Bauer, p.538
Political offices
Preceded byas consul ordinarius Suffect consul of the Roman Empire
31
with Sextus Tedius Valerius Catullus,
followed by Lucius Fulcinius Trio 		Succeeded byas consul suffectus
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