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Gnaeus Cornelius
Cornelius (gens)

File:Sommer, Giorgio - n. 1236 - Pompei - Casa di Cornelio Ruffo.jpgCornelius was the nomen of the patrician gens Cornelia , one of the most important gens, or families, of Ancient Rome....
 Scipio
Scipio (cognomen)

File:Scipio.jpgScipio is a Ancient Rome Roman naming convention representing the Cornelii Scipiones, a branch of the Cornelius family....
 Calvus (died 211 BC) was a Roman
Roman Republic

The Roman Republic was the phase of the Ancient Rome characterized by a republican form of government; a period which began with the overthrow of the Roman Roman Kingdom, c....
 general and statesman.

His father was Lucius Cornelius Scipio
Lucius Cornelius Scipio (consul 259 BC)

Lucius Cornelius Scipio , consul in 259 BC during the First Punic War was a consul and Censor of ancient Rome. He was the son of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, himself consul and censor, and brother to Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina, himself twice consul....
 (Lucius Cornelius L.f. Scipio), son of the patrician censor of 280, Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus
Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus

Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus was one of the two elected Roman consuls in 298 BC. He led the Roman Republic army to victory against the Etruscans near Volterra....
. His younger brother was Publius Cornelius Scipio
Publius Cornelius Scipio

Publius Cornelius Scipio was a general and statesman of the Roman Republic.A member of the Cornelius gens, Scipio served as consul in 218 BC, the first year of the Second Punic War, and sailed with an army from Pisa to Massilia , with the intention of arresting Hannibal's advance on Italy....
, father of the most famous Scipio - Scipio Africanus
Scipio Africanus

Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus also known as Scipio Africanus, Scipio the Elder, and Africanus the Elder was a general in the Second Punic War and statesman of the Roman Republic....
. Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus served as consul
Consul

Consul was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Roman Empire. The title was also used in other city states, and revived in modern states, notably French Republic before the Napoleon I of Franceic counter-revolution....
 in 222 BC, his co-consul being Marcus Claudius Marcellus
Marcus Claudius Marcellus

Marcus Claudius Marcellus , five times elected as consul of the Roman Republic, was an important Roman military leader during the Gallic War of 225 BC and the Second Punic War....
, in the first of his five consulships. Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio was nicknamed Calvus (the bald) to distinguish him from his uncle, another Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina

Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina was a Roman Republic politician involved in the First Punic War.Scipio Asina was a patrician member of the Scipio nes branch of the famous Cornelius , a family with a history as old as the Roman Republic itself....
 nicknamed Asina (or donkey), who had been twice consul during the First Punic War.

Scipio Calvus fought in the Second Punic War
Second Punic War

The Second Punic War lasted from 218 BC to 201 BC and involved combatants in the western and eastern Mediterranean. It was the second of three major wars between Carthage and the Roman Republic....
 in Iberia
Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes modern-day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar and a very small area of France....
 (Hispania
Hispania

Hispania was the name given by the Ancient Rome to the whole of the Iberian Peninsula . When Rome was a Roman Republic, Hispania was divided into Roman provinces: Hispania Citerior and Hispania Ulterior....
), starting with a victory in the Battle of Cissa
Battle of Cissa

The Battle of Cissa was part of the Second Punic War. It was fought in the fall of 218 BC south of the Greece town of Tarragona in north-eastern Iberian Peninsula....
 in 218 BC until he was killed in the Battle of the Upper Baetis
Battle of the Upper Baetis

The Battle of the Upper Baetis was fought in 211 BC between a Carthaginian force led by Hasdrubal Barca and a Roman force led by Publius Cornelius Scipio and his brother Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus....
 in 211 BC shortly after the similar death of his younger brother.






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Gnaeus Cornelius
Cornelius (gens)

File:Sommer, Giorgio - n. 1236 - Pompei - Casa di Cornelio Ruffo.jpgCornelius was the nomen of the patrician gens Cornelia , one of the most important gens, or families, of Ancient Rome....
 Scipio
Scipio (cognomen)

File:Scipio.jpgScipio is a Ancient Rome Roman naming convention representing the Cornelii Scipiones, a branch of the Cornelius family....
 Calvus (died 211 BC) was a Roman
Roman Republic

The Roman Republic was the phase of the Ancient Rome characterized by a republican form of government; a period which began with the overthrow of the Roman Roman Kingdom, c....
 general and statesman.

His father was Lucius Cornelius Scipio
Lucius Cornelius Scipio (consul 259 BC)

Lucius Cornelius Scipio , consul in 259 BC during the First Punic War was a consul and Censor of ancient Rome. He was the son of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, himself consul and censor, and brother to Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina, himself twice consul....
 (Lucius Cornelius L.f. Scipio), son of the patrician censor of 280, Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus
Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus

Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus was one of the two elected Roman consuls in 298 BC. He led the Roman Republic army to victory against the Etruscans near Volterra....
. His younger brother was Publius Cornelius Scipio
Publius Cornelius Scipio

Publius Cornelius Scipio was a general and statesman of the Roman Republic.A member of the Cornelius gens, Scipio served as consul in 218 BC, the first year of the Second Punic War, and sailed with an army from Pisa to Massilia , with the intention of arresting Hannibal's advance on Italy....
, father of the most famous Scipio - Scipio Africanus
Scipio Africanus

Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus also known as Scipio Africanus, Scipio the Elder, and Africanus the Elder was a general in the Second Punic War and statesman of the Roman Republic....
. Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus served as consul
Consul

Consul was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Roman Empire. The title was also used in other city states, and revived in modern states, notably French Republic before the Napoleon I of Franceic counter-revolution....
 in 222 BC, his co-consul being Marcus Claudius Marcellus
Marcus Claudius Marcellus

Marcus Claudius Marcellus , five times elected as consul of the Roman Republic, was an important Roman military leader during the Gallic War of 225 BC and the Second Punic War....
, in the first of his five consulships. Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio was nicknamed Calvus (the bald) to distinguish him from his uncle, another Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina

Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina was a Roman Republic politician involved in the First Punic War.Scipio Asina was a patrician member of the Scipio nes branch of the famous Cornelius , a family with a history as old as the Roman Republic itself....
 nicknamed Asina (or donkey), who had been twice consul during the First Punic War.

Scipio Calvus fought in the Second Punic War
Second Punic War

The Second Punic War lasted from 218 BC to 201 BC and involved combatants in the western and eastern Mediterranean. It was the second of three major wars between Carthage and the Roman Republic....
 in Iberia
Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes modern-day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar and a very small area of France....
 (Hispania
Hispania

Hispania was the name given by the Ancient Rome to the whole of the Iberian Peninsula . When Rome was a Roman Republic, Hispania was divided into Roman provinces: Hispania Citerior and Hispania Ulterior....
), starting with a victory in the Battle of Cissa
Battle of Cissa

The Battle of Cissa was part of the Second Punic War. It was fought in the fall of 218 BC south of the Greece town of Tarragona in north-eastern Iberian Peninsula....
 in 218 BC until he was killed in the Battle of the Upper Baetis
Battle of the Upper Baetis

The Battle of the Upper Baetis was fought in 211 BC between a Carthaginian force led by Hasdrubal Barca and a Roman force led by Publius Cornelius Scipio and his brother Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus....
 in 211 BC shortly after the similar death of his younger brother. Both Scipios were capable commanders, both were consuls, and both were killed in Hispania after their armies had separated.

Descendants

His son was Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica, consul in 191 BC, the first Scipio Nasica
Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica

Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica was a consul of ancient Rome in 191 BC. He was a son of Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus. Sometimes referred to as Scipio Nasica the First to distinguish him from his Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum and Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio, he was a cousin of Scipio Africanus....
 (nicknamed Nasica for his pointed nose), who founded the Nasica branch of the Scipiades. Scipio Nasica's son, another Scipio Nasica (nicknamed Corculum, with his full name being Publius Cornelius P.f. G.n. Scipio Nasica Corculum
Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum

Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum was a Roman statesman and member of the gens Cornelius .Corculum was the son of Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica , and was thus a first cousin once removed of the Roman general Scipio Africanus....
), married his second cousin Cornelia Africana Major, the eldest daughter of Scipio Africanus and thus united the two lines. Their descendants in the male line continued until at least 46 BC, in the person of Metellus Scipio (adopted into the Caecilii Metelli family).

See also


  • Scipio-Paullus-Gracchus family tree
    Scipio-Paullus-Gracchus family tree

    The Scipio-Paullus-Gracchus family tree includes the Ancient Rome Scipio , Paullus and Gracchus families.See also: List of family trees...