Marcus Atius Balbus

105 BC - 51 BC

• Name	, Marcus Atius Balbus  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Birth	105 BC	Ariccia, Roma, Lazio, Italy   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Military	53 BC  [1, 2]
  	Exilium pro Ambitione
  House	gens Atia
  Life Event	62 BC
  	Elected Praetor
  Life Event	64 BC  [1, 2]
  	Military Tribune
  FSID	L6BJ-HL7  [1, 2]
  Death	51 BC	Roman Republic ( 509 BC - 27 BC )   [2, 3, 4, 5, 7]
  Person ID	I34055	The Thoma Family
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	Marcus Atius Balbus,   b. 147 BC, Ariccia, Roma, Lazio, Italy d. 86 BC, Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Pompeia Lucilla,   b. 138 BC, Marche, Italy d. 87 BC, Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	105 BC	Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy   [1]
  Family ID	F13370	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Julia Minor Caesarius,   b. 24 Jun 101 BC, Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy d. 51 BC, Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy
  Children	1. Atia Balba Caesonia,   b. 85 BC, Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy d. 43 BC, Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy  [natural]
  Family ID	F13353	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 105 BC - Ariccia, Roma, Lazio, Italy Death - 51 BC - Roman Republic ( 509 BC - 27 BC )  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Marcus Atius Balbus (105 – 51 BC) was a 1st-century BC Roman who served as a praetor in 62 BC, he was a cousin of the general Pompey on his mother's side and a brother-in-law of the Dictator Julius Caesar through his marriage to Caesar's sister Julia Minor. Through Julia he became the maternal grandfather of Augustus the first Roman Emperor. Balbus was born and raised in Aricia into a political family and was the son and heir of the elder Marcus Atius Balbus (148 – 87 BC). His mother was Pompeia, the sister to consul Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, father of Pompey Magnus, a member of the First Triumvirate with Julius Caesar and Marcus Licinius Crassus. The family of the elder Balbus came from a Roman senatorial family of plebs status from Aricia (modern Ariccia, Italy). "Balbus" in Latin means stammer. During the consulship of Julius Caesar in 59 BC, Balbus was appointed along with Pompey to a board of commissioners under a Julian Law to divide estates in Campania among the commoners. Cicero stated that Pompey would say as a joke about Balbus, that he was not a person of any importance. He married Julia Minor, the younger of the two elder sisters of the dictator Julius Caesar. Julia bore him two or more daughters and possibly a son.[1] One of the daughters married Gaius Octavius and became the mother of Octavia Minor (fourth wife of triumvir Mark Antony) and of the first Roman emperor Augustus. A younger daughter married Lucius Marcius Philippus and became the mother of Marcia.[2] Another Atia who was married to a Gaius Junius Silanus is attested.[3][4] This Atia may have been another daughter of Balbus and Julia or a granddaughter. Ronald Syme also speculated that this Atia may have been a daughter of Balbus by another wife named Claudia.[5] Balbus died in 51 BC.

  
  

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