Lucius Aurelius Commodus Pompeianus (c. 177 – 211/212) was a Roman senator active in the early 3rd century. He was the son of Lucilla, the daughter of Marcus Aurelius, and her second husband Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus, a general active politically during the reigns of Emperors Commodus and Pertinax.[1]
Little is known of Pompeianus himself. As Oates expresses it, "He has a ringing name of great auctoritas, but we do not know if he was capax imperii."[1] He dedicated an altar for the welfare of Septimius Severus and his family in Lyon while serving as military tribune in the Legio I Minervia, which would date his commission to the early years of Severus' reign, in the 190s.[2] In 209, he achieved the rank of consul.[3][4] If Pompeianus became consul suo anno, as John Oates suggests, then he was born in 177, and was five years old when his mother Lucilla was executed in the aftermath of a failed attempt to assassinate her brother Commodus. John Oates opines that he and his father Tiberius had retired to their country estates in 180 when Commodus ascended to the throne.[1]
In 211/212, he was executed by Caracalla, following the murder of Caracalla's brother Geta.[5] H.-G. Pflaum notes that Caracalla took the precaution of making the murder appear to have been perpetrated by bandits.[2]
Lucius Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus (cos. ord. 231) and Clodius Pompeianus (cos. ord. 241) are likely to have been his sons.[6]
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| Preceded by
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus III, |
Consul of the Roman Empire 209 with Quintus Hedius Lollianus Plautius Avitus |
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