Roman governors of Germania Inferior
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Roman governor
A Roman governor was an official either elected or appointed to be the chief administrator of Roman law throughout one or more of the many provinces constituting the Roman Empire...
s of Germania Inferior
Germania Inferior
Germania Inferior was a Roman province located on the left bank of the Rhine, in today's Luxembourg, southern Netherlands, parts of Belgium, and North Rhine-Westphalia left of the Rhine....
(and Germania Secunda
Germania Secunda
In the early fourth-century Notitia Dignitatum, Germania Secunda , situated along the Lower Rhine and administered by a Consularis, was the name under the Dominate of Germania Inferior, a military border territory which had been established under the Flavian reorganization of the Roman Empire, out...
from 395 until the deposition of Romulus Augustulus in 475). Capital and largest city of Germania Inferior was Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium
Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium
Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium was the name of the Roman colony in the Rhineland out of which the German city of Cologne developed.It was the capital of the Roman province of Germania Inferior and the headquarters of the military in the region. With the administrative reforms under Diocletian,...
(CCAA), modern-day Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
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BC 27-AD 68: Julio-Claudian dynasty
- AD 7-9: Publius Quinctilius VarusPublius Quinctilius VarusPublius Quinctilius Varus was a Roman politician and general under Emperor Augustus, mainly remembered for having lost three Roman legions and his own life when attacked by Germanic leader Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.-Life:His paternal grandfather was senator Sextus Quinctilius...
- AD 10-14: ?
- AD 14-16: Aulus Caecina SeverusAulus Caecina SeverusAulus Caecina, son of Aulus Caecina who was defended by Cicero in a speech still extant, took the side of Pompey in the civil wars, and published a violent tirade against Caesar, for which he was banished....
- AD 21: Gaius SiliusGaius SiliusGaius Silius was the name of two consuls of the Roman Empire, during the 1st century. The elder was a consul and commander in the Roman Army during the reign of Emperors Augustus and Tiberius and the younger a consul in the reign of Emperor Claudius....
- AD 21-2?: Gaius Visellius Varro
- AD 28-34: Lucius AproniusLucius AproniusLucius Apronius was a Roman military commander and a father-in-law of praetor Plautius Silvanus. Apronius shared in the achievements of Vibius Postumus and earned the ornaments of a triumph for his distinguished valor in Dalmatian revolt and Germanic Wars, along with Aulus Caecina Severus and Gaius...
- AD 34-39: ?
- AD 40-41: Publius Gabinius Secundus
- AD 41-46: Aulus Gabinius Secundus
- AD 46-47: Quintus Sanavius Maximus
- AD 47-51: Gnaeus Domitius CorbuloGnaeus Domitius CorbuloGnaeus Domitius Corbulo was a Roman general and a brother-in-law of the emperor Caligula.-Descent:Corbulo was born in Italy into a senatorial family...
- AD 51-54: ?
- AD 54-58: Pompeius Paulinus
- AD 58-60: Lucius Duvius Avitus
- AD 63-67: Publius Sulpicius Scribonius Rufus
- AD 67-68: Gaius Fonteius CapitoGaius Fonteius CapitoGaius Fonteius Capito was a consul of the Roman Empire on 59, succeeding Nero. As governor of Lower Germany, he drove Julius Civilis to rebellion in 69. He was replaced by Vitellius under Galba....
- AD 68-69: Aulus Vitellius Germanicus
AD 69-96: Year of the Four Emperors and Flavian Dynasty
- AD 69-70: Gaius Dillius VoculaGaius Dillius VoculaGaius Dillius Vocula was a Roman commander of the twenty-second legion Primigenia during the Batavian revolt. Defending Xanten, he was murdered by rebellious Roman troops.- External links :*...
(?) - AD 70-71: Quintus Petillius CerialisQuintus Petillius CerialisQuintus Petilius Cerialis Caesius Rufus was a Roman general and administrator who served in Britain during Boudica's rebellion and who went on to participate in the civil wars after the death of Nero. He later defeated the rebellion of Julius Civilis and returned to Britain as its governor.His...
- AD 71-73: Aulus Marius Celsus
- AD 73-78: Lucius Acilius Strabo
- AD 78: Gaius Rutilius Gallicus
- AD 78-80: Decimus Iunius Novius Priscus
- AD 80-83: Sextus Julius FrontinusSextus Julius FrontinusSextus Julius Frontinus was one of the most distinguished Roman aristocrats of the late 1st century AD, but is best known to the post-Classical world as an author of technical treatises, especially one dealing with the aqueducts of Rome....
(?) - AD 87-89: Aulus Bucius Lappius Maximus
- AD 91-96: Marcus Ulpius Trajanus
AD 96-192: Nervan-Antonian dynasty
- AD 96-97: Marcus Ulpius Trajanus
- AD 97: Titus Vestricius SpurinnaTitus Vestricius SpurinnaTitus Vestricius Spurinna was an Etruscan haruspex most famous for warning Julius Caesar to be wary of the Ides of March a month before his assassination....
(?) - AD 97-98: Lucius Licinius SuraLucius Licinius SuraLucius Licinius Sura was an influential Roman Senator from Tarraco, a close friend of the Emperor Trajan and three times consul - in a period when three consulates were very rare for non-members of the Imperial family - in AD 93 , 102 and 107....
- AD 98-99: Lucius Neratius Priscus
- AD 99-100: ?
- AD 101-102: Quintus Acutius Nerva
- AD 103-116: ?
- AD 117-119: Aulus Platorius NeposAulus Platorius NeposAulus Platorius Nepos was a Roman politician of the early 2nd century.Platorius Nepos was governor of Germania Inferior. He was a close friend and possible kinsman of the Emperor Hadrian and may have accompanied Hadrian on his visit to Britain in 122. In this year he was made governor of Roman...
(?) - AD 119-122: Manilianus Gaius Licinius Pollio
- AD 122-129: ?
- AD 130-13?: Granius [Fabianus] Grattius [Cerealis?] Geminius
- AD 135-139: Quintus Lollius UrbicusQuintus Lollius UrbicusQuintus Lollius Urbicus was governor of Roman Britain between the years 139 and 142, during the reign of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius. He is named in the text known as the Augustan History, and his name appears on five Roman inscriptions from Britain; his career is set out in detail on a pair...
- AD 140-142: ?
- AD 142-150: Gaius Julius Severus IIGaius Julius Severus IIGaius Julius Severus was a Proconsul of Asia between 152 and 153. He was the son of Julius Quadratus, a Roman Cavalry Officer.He was a descendant of Attalus , Deiotaros , and Amyntas, as well as cousin of Iulius Quadratus .-Sources:* Christian Settipani, Les Ancêtres de Charlemagne...
- AD 150-151: Publius Septimius Aper (?)
- AD 151-152: Lucius Octavius Cornelius Salvius Iulianus Aemillianus
- AD 152-158: Gnaeus Julius VerusGnaeus Julius VerusGnaeus Iulius Verus was Roman general and senator of the mid-2nd century AD, eventually becoming governor of Britain.Verus came from Aequum in Dalmatia, probably the son of Sextus Julius Severus , born in 112. He served as tribune in the legio X Fretensis when his father was governor of Judaea in...
- AD 158: Sextus Calpurnius AgricolaSextus Calpurnius AgricolaSextus Calpurnius Agricola was a Roman general and politician of the 2nd century.Calpurnius Agricola was governor of Germania Superior around 158....
(?) - AD 158-160: Tiberius Claudius Julianus
- AD 15?-161: Salvius JulianusSalvius JulianusLucius Octavius Cornelius Publius Salvius Julianus Aemilianus , generally referred to as Salvius Julianus, or Julian the Jurist, or simply Julianus [Iulianus], was a well known and respected jurist, public official, and politician who served in the Roman imperial state...
(?) - AD 161-16?: Gaius Septimius Severus
- AD 170-17?: Quintus Antistius AdventusQuintus Antistius AdventusQuintus Antistius Adventus was a Roman politician and general.He served in the Parthian War under Lucius Verus. Antistius Adventus became governor of Germania Inferior, and then of Roman Britain between c. 175 and 178. In 175, 5,500 Sarmatian cavalry troops arrived in Britain...
- AD 17?-180: Junius Macr[er] (?)
- AD 180-185: Marcus Didius Julianus
- AD 18?-192: Gaius Allius Fuscianus
AD 193-235: Year of the Five Emperors & Severan dynasty
- AD 193-197: Virius LupusVirius LupusVirius Lupus was a Roman soldier and politician of the late second and early 3rd century.His parents were Lucius Virius, born c. 140, and wife Antonia, also born c. 140 and daughter of Marcus Antonius Zeno. His paternal grandparents were Quintus Virius, born c. 110, and wife Larcia, born c...
- AD 197-19?: Gaius Valerius PudensGaius Valerius PudensGaius Valerius Pudens was a Roman politician and general of the late 2nd - early 3rd centuries.Valerius Pudens, a native of Cuicul, now Djémila, held command in Pannonia Inferior before becoming governor of Germania Inferior. Around 202 or 203 he became governor of Roman Britain, serving until c...
- AD 199-20?: Novius Priscus
- AD 201-204: Marius MaximusMarius MaximusMarius Maximus was a Roman biographer, writing in Latin, who in the early decades of the 3rd century AD wrote a series of biographies of twelve Emperors, imitating and continuing Suetonius. Marius’s work is lost, but it was still being read in the late 4th century and was used as a source by...
Perpetuus Aurelianus - AD 205: Quintus Venidius Rufus
- AD 20?-20?: Quintus Tarquitius Catulus
- AD 206-210: Gnaeus Fulvius Maximus Centumalus
- AD 211-212: Lucius Lucceius Martinus
- AD 212-21?: Marcius Claudius Agrippa
- AD 216-21?: Marcus Valerius Senecio
- AD 222-22?: Flavius Aper Commodianus
- AD 230-231: Clodius Aurelius Saturninus
- AD 231: Flavius Janus
- AD 23?-235: Gaius Messius Quintus DeciusDeciusTrajan Decius , was Roman Emperor from 249 to 251. In the last year of his reign, he co-ruled with his son Herennius Etruscus until they were both killed in the Battle of Abrittus.-Early life and rise to power:...
AD 235-285: Emperors during the Crisis of the Third Century
- AD 23?-23?: Iasdius Domitianus (?)
- AD 233-238: Gaius Furius Sabinus Aquila Timesitheus
- AD 238-24?: Lucius Domitius Gallicanus Papinianus
- AD 25?: Quintus Tarquinius Catulus
- AD 259-260: Marcus Cassianus Postumus
- AD 260–274: (!) Gallic EmpireGallic EmpireThe Gallic Empire is the modern name for a breakaway realm that existed from 260 to 274. It originated during the Roman Empire's Crisis of the Third Century....
- Marcus Cassianus Postumus
- Marcus Aurelius MariusMarcus Aurelius MariusMarcus Aurelius Marius was emperor of the Gallic Empire in 269 following the assassination of Postumus.-Reign:According to later tradition, he was a blacksmith by trade who rose through the ranks of the Roman army to become an officer. He was present with the army that revolted at Moguntiacum...
- VictorinusVictorinusMarcus Piavonius Victorinus was emperor of the secessionist Gallic Empire from 269 to 271, following the brief reign of Marius. He was murdered by a jealous husband whose wife he tried to seduce.-Reign:...
- TetricusTetricusTetricus may refer to:* Tetricus I, emperor of the Gallic Empire was the last of the Gallic Emperors as Tetricus I from 270/271 to 273.* his son, Tetricus II, was his co-ruler...
- AD 274:
See also
- List of Frankish kings
- List of bishops and archbishops of Cologne
- Römisch-Germanisches MuseumRömisch-Germanisches MuseumThe Roman-Germanic Museum is an important archaeological museum in Cologne, Germany. It has a large collection of Roman artifacts from the Roman settlement of Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, on which modern Cologne is built...