Lucius Iulius Ursus Servianus

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Lucius Iulius Ursus Servianus (* around 47; † 136 ) was a politician and senator during the Roman Empire . During his long political career he was consul three times .

Servianus probably came from Gallia Narbonensis . Born Servius Iulius Servianus, he was adopted before 102 by the three-time consul Lucius Iulius Ursus . Little is known about Servianus' youth and the beginning of his career. He was probably suffect consul under Emperor Domitian in 90 and succeeded the new Emperor Trajan as governor of Upper Germany in 98 . For his service in the First Dacian War of Trajan, he received a second consulate in 102, this time as a full consul together with Lucius Licinius Sura . Servianus was married to a sister of the future emperor Hadrian , Domitia Paulina . Servianus convinced Trajan, the younger Pliny , with whom Servianus was friends, to grant the right to three children , which facilitated access to public office and was associated with a tax reduction.

Hadrian granted his now over eighty-year-old brother-in-law the special honor of a third consulate, which in the previous three decades had only been granted to Lucius Licinius Sura and Marcus Annius Verus , the grandfather of the future Emperor Marcus Aurelius . But just two years later he fell out of favor. The always suspicious emperor suspected the aged Servianus of wanting to turn off Hadrian's designated successor Lucius Aelius Caesar together with his grandson Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator . Allegedly, Pedanius Fuscus, who as Hadrian's great-nephew was his closest living male relative, himself aspired to become emperor. Hadrian cracked down on all opposition to Lucius Aelius in the bud: Lucius Iulius Ursus Servianus, who protested his innocence, and his grandson were executed in 136.

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SURNAME Iulius Ursus Servianus, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ursus Servianus, Lucius Iulius; Servianus, Lucius Iulius Ursus; Julius Ursus Servianus, Lucius; Ursus Servianus, Lucius Julius; Servianus, Lucius Julius Ursus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician and senator, three-time consul
DATE OF BIRTH at 47
DATE OF DEATH 136