Marcus Valerius Messala Corvinus (consul 58)

Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus was a Roman who lived in the 1st century and was the oldest son of Domitia Lepida and consul Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus. He was named for his famous great-grandfather, the orator and patron of literature Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus.

Marcus was consul with Nero in 58. During his consulship, the senate paid him half a million sesterces to support himself.

Extended family

Marcus was the brother of the Empress Valeria Messalina and half-brother of Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix, maternal uncle of Claudia Octavia and Britannicus, great-grandnephew of the Emperor Augustus, second cousin of the Emperor Caligula, brother-in-law and second cousin of the Emperor Claudius, and first cousin of the Emperor Nero. Through his mother Domitia Lepida, Marcus was a great-grandnephew of Augustus. Domitia's mother Antonia Major was the elder daughter of Octavia the Younger and Mark Antony, and sister of Claudius's own mother Antonia Minor. Octavia the Younger was Augustus's full-blooded sister. This also made him second cousin to both Claudius and Caligula. Domitia Lepida had two siblings: Domitia Lepida the Elder and Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, who married to Caligula's sister Agrippina the Younger and was the father of the Emperor Nero.

References

• Tacitus, Annals of Imperial Rome - Claudius and Nero - Chapter 11: "The Fall of Agrippina".

Preceded by Nero and Lucius Calpurnius Piso

Consul of the Roman Empire together with Nero 58

Succeeded by Gaius Vipstanus Apronianus and Gaius Fonteius Capito