Valerius Maximus (praetorian prefect)

Valerius Maximus (fl. 325–337) was a Roman senator.

Life

Valerius Maximus was a member of the fourth century

During this period, in 327, Valerius Maximus was appointed consul posterior, alongside Flavius Constantius. Then in late 331, he was probably sent to Gaul with the Caesar Constantius II, serving as Constantius' praetorian prefect. Valerius Maximus served him there until late 333 or early 334, when Constantius returned to his father's court at Constantinople.

In around 336, Valerius Maximus was appointed praetorian prefect for a third time, this time accompanying the Caesar Dalmatius to the provinces along the Danubian frontier, which had been assigned to him as the territory he was to manage, in Constantine's planned administrative division of the empire. He served under Dalmatius until 337, when Valerius Maximus was replaced shortly before the murder of Dalmatius in the wake of the death of Constantine I.^[3]

It is speculated that Valerius Maximus was married twice. Christian Settipani has speculated that his first marriage may have been to Septimia Bassa, daughter of Septimius Bassus. They possibly had one son together, as his second nomen and cognomen suggest, named Lucius Valerius Septimius Bassus. His second marriage was possibly to a Vulcacia, supposedly the daughter of Neratius Junius Flavianus and wife Vulcacia. It has been postulated that they had two children, a son, Maximus, and a daughter, Valeria, who may have become a Christian through her possible marriage, as the nomina and cognomen of one of their children supports, to Rufius Maecius Placidus, consularis vir in 370, son of Postumius Rufius Festus Avienus and wife Maecia Placida.^[4]

Ancestry

References

Sources

• Martindale, J. R.; Jones, A. H. M, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. I AD 260–395, Cambridge University Press (1971)