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[Usurper of the Roman Empire (died 261)] [Other uses] {{Infobox royalty | name
=Quietus | full name =Titus Fulvius Junius Quietus | title =Usurper of the
Roman Empire | image= Antoninianus-Quietus-RIC 0009.jpg | caption =Quietus on
a coin <br />celebrating _Eternal Rome_.[1] | reign =260-261 (with <br
/>Macrianus Minor) | predecessor =Gallienus | successor =Gallienus | spouse 1
= | spouse 2 = | issue = | dynasty = | father =Macrianus Major | mother =? (of
senatorial descent) | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date =261 |
death_place =Emesa, Syria | place of burial = ||regnal name=Imperator Caesar
Titus Fulvius Junius Quietus Augustus}} [Campaignbox Crisis of the Third
Century] TITUS FULVIUS JUNIUS QUIETUS (died 261) was a Roman usurper against
Roman Emperor Gallienus.
** History
Quietus was the son of Fulvius Macrianus[2] and a noblewoman, possibly named
Junia. According to _Historia Augusta_, he was a military tribune under
Valerian,[3] but this information is challenged by historians.[date=August
2018]
He gained the imperial office with his brother Macrianus Minor, after the
capture of Emperor Valerian in the Sassanid campaign of 260.[4] With the
lawful heir, Gallienus, being far away in the West, the soldiers elected the
two emperors. The support of his father, controller of the imperial treasure,
and the influence of Balista, Praetorian prefect of the late Emperor Valerian,
proved instrumental in his promotion.[5]
Quietus and Macrianus, elected consuls,[6] had to face the Emperor Gallienus,
at the time in the West. Quietus and Balista stayed in the eastern provinces,
while his brother and father marched their army to Europe to seize control of
the Roman Empire. After the defeat and deaths of his brother and father in
Thrace in 261, Quietus lost the control of the provinces in favour of Septimus
Odaenathus of Palmyra, a loyal client king of the Romans who had helped push
the Persians out of the eastern provinces and recovered Roman Mesopotamia in
260.[date=August 2018] Forced to flee to the city of Emesa,[7] he was besieged
there by Odaenathus,[date=August 2018] during the course of which he was
killed by its inhabitants, possibly instigated by Balista.[8]
** Cultural depictions
Quietus appears in Harry Sidebottom's historical fiction novel series as one
of the series' antagonists.
** References
[reflist]
** Sources
- [url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303171631/http://www.roman-emperors.org/galusurp.htm#Note%202]
- Jones, A.H.M., Martindale, J.R. _The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. I: AD260-395_ , Cambridge University Press, 1971
** External links
[Quietus]
[s-start] [s-off] [ before= Publius Cornelius Saecularis , <br/> Gaius Junius
Donatus , <br/> Postumus , <br/> Honoratianus] [ title= Consul of the Roman
Empire] [ after= Gallienus , <br/> Nummius Faustianus ] [s-end]
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(Roman) Category:3rd-century Roman consuls Category:Year of birth unknown
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