Gaius Julius Erucius Clarus Vibianus (died 197 CE) was a

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politician and senator. He was '' consul ordinarius'' with Quintus Pompeius Sosius Falco in early 193, during the reign of

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Vibianus came from an Italian family or from one of the Western provinces. He was the son of

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, consul in 170 CE, who belonged to the powerful equestrian family of the Erucii. His paternal grandfather,

Sextus Erucius Clarus Sextus Erucius Clarus (died March 146) was a Roman senator and aristocrat. He was Urban prefect and twice consul, the second time for the year AD 146. Clarus was the nephew of Gaius Septicius Clarus, a friend of Pliny the Younger. Erucius Clarus ...

, was consul in 146 CE, and before that City Prefect of Rome. His great-grandfather, who was consul ''suffectus'' in 117 CE, was the brother (or perhaps half-brother) of

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. His mother was Pomponia Triaria, the sister of Triarius Maternus, the consul of 185 CE. Initially appointed to the consulate by the emperor Commodus, in the aftermath of the emperor's assassination, it was alleged by the conspirators that Commodus had planned to murder Vibianus and his colleague Falco on 1 January 193, and replace them with himself as sole consul. Possibly involved in the plot against Commodus, he may have also been involved in the aborted attempt to install his uncle Triarius Maternus as emperor on 3 January 193. After the assassination of Pertinax, Vibianus initially survived the purges of the new emperor

Septimius Severus Lucius Septimius Severus (; 11 April 145 – 4 February 211) was Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He was born in Leptis Magna (present-day Al-Khums, Libya) in the Roman province of Africa. As a young man he advanced through the customary suc ...

that claimed the lives of fellow consuls Quintus Pompeius Sosius Falco and Marcus Silius Messala. However, in 197, Vibianus threw his support behind

Clodius Albinus Decimus Clodius Albinus ( 150 – 19 February 197) was a Roman imperial pretender between 193 and 197. He was proclaimed emperor by the legions in Britain and Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, comprising modern Spain and Portugal) after the murder ...

, the former Governor of Britain. With Septimius Severus's victory, the emperor approached Vibianus and asked him to be an informer against people whom Severus wanted executed. When Vibianus refused, Severus had him killed and had his memory damned.Champlin, pg. 300

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* PIR ², E 97 * Rudolf Hanslik, "Erucius II.3", ''

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'', volume 2, p. 364. Stuttgart 1967 * Champlin, Edward, ''Notes on the Heirs of Commodus'', The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 100, No. 2 (Summer, 1979), pp. 288-306 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/293693) {{DEFAULTSORT:Julius Erucius Clarus Vibianus, Gaius 197 deaths 2nd-century Romans Senators of the Roman Empire Imperial Roman consuls Year of birth unknown Clarus Vibianus, Gaius Julius Erucius Clarus Vibianus, Gaius

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