Valeria gens
Valerius was a Roman nomen of the gens Valeria, one of the oldest families of the city. The name was in use throughout Roman history.
Possible forms:
- Valerius, male singular
- Valeria, female singular
- Valerii, male plural
- Valerianus, male adoptive
Brnaches of the gens Valeria
Among the branches of the Valerii, there were those who bore the cognomen Messalla. Messalla was originally assumed by Marcus Valerius Maximus after his relief of Messana in Sicily from blockade by the Carthaginians in the second year of the first Punic war, 263 BC.(Macrob. Sat. i. 6 ; Sen. Brev. Vit. 13.) They appear for the first time on the consular Fasti in 263 BC, and for the last in 506; and, during this period of nearly eight centuries, they held twenty-two consulships and three censorships.(Sidon. Apoll. Carm. ix. 302 ; Rutil. L c.; Symmach. Ep. vii. 90.) The cognomen Messalla, frequently written Messala, appears with the agnomens Barbatus, Niger, Rufus, with the nomens Ennodius, Pacatus, Silius, Thrasia Priscus, Vipstanus, and with the praenomens Potitus and Volesus, and was itself originally, and when combined with Corvinus, an agnomen, as M. Valerius Maximus Corvinus Messalla, i. e. of Messana.
Famous members of the gens Valeria
- Publius Valerius Publicola, consul 509 BC
- Marcus Valerius Volusi f. (Volusus?), consul 505 BC
- Lucius Valerius M.f. Potitus (Publicola), consul 483 BC, 470 BC
- Publius Valerius P.f. Poplicola, consul 475 BC, 460 BC
- Marcus Valerius M'. f. Maximus Lactuca, consul 456 BC
- Lucius Valerius Potitus, consul 449 BC
- Gaius Valerius Potitus, consular tribune 415 BC
- Lucius Valerius Potitus, consular tribune 414 BC
- Gaius Valerius L.f. Potitus Volusus, consul 410 BC
- Lucius Valerius L.f. Potitus, consul 393 BC-390 BC(?)
- Lucius Valerius Publicola, consular tribune 388 BC
- Titus Valerius, consular tribune 385 BC-382 BC
- Lucius Valerius, 379 BC
- Publius Valerius, 379 BC, 376 BC
- Gaius Valerius, 374 BC
- Marcus Valerius L.f. Poplicola, consul 355 BC, 353 BC
- Publius Valerius P.f. Poplicola, 352 BC
- Marcus Valerius Corvus, consul several times in 4th century BC
- Gaius Valerius L.f. Potitus (Flacus), consul 331 BC
- Marcus Valerius M.f. Maximus Corvinus (Corrinus?), consul 312 BC, 289 BC
- Marcus. Valerius Maximus (Potitus?), consul 286 BC
- Publius Valerius Laevinus, consul 281 BC
- Publius Valerius Laevinus, consul 281 BC
- Manius Valerius Maximus Corvinus Messalla, consul 263 BC
- Quintus Valerius Q.f. Falto, consul 239 BC
- Publius Valerius Q.f. Falto, consul 238 BC
- Publius Valerius L.f. Flaccus, consul 227 BC
- Marcus Valerius M'.f. Maximus Messala, consul 226 BC
- Marcus Valerius P.f. Laevinus, consul 221 BC, 210 BC
- Marcus Valerius M.f. Messalla, consul 188 BC
- Gaius Valerius M.f. Laevinus, suffect consul 176 BC
- Marcus Valerius Messalla, consul 166 BC
- Gaius Valerius Flaccus, consul 93 BC
- Valerius Aedituus, poet ca 100s BC
- Valerius Antias, annalist 1st century BC
- Quintus Valerius Soranus, plebeian tribune 82 BC
- Lucius Valerius Flaccus, several notable persons
- Marcus Valerius Messalla Niger, consul 61 BC
- Marcus Valerius Messalla Rufus, consul 53 BC
- Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, consul 31 BC
- Publis Valerius Cato, scholar, poet 1st century BC
- Marcus Valerius Messala Barbatus, married Domitia Lepida
- Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus, consul 3 BC
- Valerius Maximus, historian 1st century
- Lucius Valerius Messalla Volesus, possible consul 5
- Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus, consul 20
- Decimus Valerius Asiaticus, consul in 35 and 46
- Potitus Valerius Corvus Rufus Sulla, consul in 100
- Volsus Valerius Valus Sulla Valerianus, praetor in 132
- Poplicola Valerius Sulla Felix
- Phillipus Valerius Sulla Felix
- Phillipus Valerius Sulla Felix Cassianus, consul in 193
- Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial), poet 1st century
- Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, consul 58
- Gaius Calpetanus Rantius Quirinalis Valerius Festus, suffect consul 71
- Gaius Valerius Flaccus, poet 1st century
- Lucius Valerius Licinianus, advocate 1st century
- Valerius Probus, grammarian 1st century
- Marcus Valerius Bradua Mauricus, consul 191
- Lucius Valerius Messalla Thrasea Priscus, consul 196
- Lucius Valerius Messalla Apollinaris, consul 214
- Publius Valerius Comazon Eutychianus, consul 220
- Lucius Valerius Maximus, consul 233
- Valerius Maximus, consul 253
- Lucius Valerius Maximus, consul 256
- Imp. Caesar Marcus Aurelius Valerius Claudius Augustus (Claudius II), emperor
- Imp. Caesar Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus Augustus (Diocletian), emperor
- Imp. Caesar Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus Augustus (Maximian), emperor
- Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus Caesar (Galerius), emperor
- Flavius Valerius Constantinus Caesar (Constantius Chlorus), emperor
- Flavius Valerius Severus, short-lived emperor ca. 306
- Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius (Maxentius), emperor 306-312
- Marcus Valerius Romulus, consul 309
- Flavius Julius Valerius Crispus (Crispus)
- Flavius Galerius Valerius Licinianus Licinius (Licinius), emperor
- Imp. Caesar Flauius Valerius Constantinus Augustus (Constantine I), emperor
- Imp. Caesar Galerius Valerius Maximinus Augustus (Maximinus), emperor
- Julius Valerius Alexander Polemius, scholar 4th century
- Julius Valerius Majorianus (Majorian), emperor 457-461
Other uses of the name Valerius
- Adriaen Valerius, who composed or compiled an anthology of Dutch patriotic songs during the Eighty Years' War
- Valerius of Trèves, a 4th century bishop of Trèves
- Valerius, bishop of Zaragoza (Spain) in 290-315.
- Valerius II, bishop of Zaragoza (Spain) in ca. 380.