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The Piso family of ancient Rome
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 was a prominent plebeian branch of the gens Calpurnia
Gens Calpurnia

Gens Calpurnia was a family in ancient Rome. The patriarch was a plebeian who claimed descent from Calpus, the third of the four sons of Numa Pompilius, the second King of Rome; and accordingly we find the head of Numa Pompilius on some of the coins of this gens....
, with at least 50 prominent Roman family members recognized. Members are known into the 2nd century.

Notable members:












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The Piso family of ancient Rome
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 was a prominent plebeian branch of the gens Calpurnia
Gens Calpurnia

Gens Calpurnia was a family in ancient Rome. The patriarch was a plebeian who claimed descent from Calpus, the third of the four sons of Numa Pompilius, the second King of Rome; and accordingly we find the head of Numa Pompilius on some of the coins of this gens....
, with at least 50 prominent Roman family members recognized. Members are known into the 2nd century.

Notable members:

  • Lucius Calpurnius Piso (consul 175)
  • Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi (consul 133 BC)
    Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi (consul 133 BC)

    Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi was a Roman consul in 133 BC, historian and representative of older Roman annalists. He was of plebeian origin.In 149 BC held the office of tribune....
  • Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (consul 112 BC)
    Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (consul 112 BC)

    Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus was the son of Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus , consul in 148 BC.He was consul in 112 BC, with Marcus Livius Drusus ....
  • Gaius Calpurnius Piso (consul 111)
  • Gaius Calpurnius Piso (consul 67 BC)
  • Marcus Pupius Piso Frugi - consul 61 BC
  • Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus
    Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus

    Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus was a statesman of ancient Rome and the father-in-law of Julius Caesar through his daughter Calpurnia Pisonis....
     - consul 58 BC, father-in-law of Julius Caesar
  • Lucius Calpurnius Piso (consul 27)
  • Lucius Calpurnius Piso (consul 15 BC)
    Lucius Calpurnius Piso (consul 15 BC)

    Lucius Calpurnius Piso "the Pontifex" was a prominent ancient Rome senator of the early principate. He was the son of Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus and brother of Calpurnia Pisonis, wife of Julius Caesar....
    , pontifex
  • Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso
    Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso

    Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso , Roman statesman, was consul in 7 BC; subsequently, he was governor of Hispania and proconsul of North Africa during the Classical Period....
    , consul 7 BC, was charged of being involved in the death of Germanicus
    Germanicus

    Germanicus Julius Caesar Claudianus . Born in Lugdunum, Gaul , was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty of the early Roman Empire. At birth he was named either Nero Claudius Drusus after his father or Tiberius Claudius Nero after his uncle and received the agnomen Germanicus, by which he is principally known, in 9 BC, when...
  • Lucius Calpurnius Piso (consul 1 BC), augur


  • Gaius Calpurnius Piso
    Gaius Calpurnius Piso

    Gaius Calpurnius Piso was a Roman senator in the 1st century. He was the focal figure in the Pisonian conspiracy of 65 A.D., the most famous and wide-ranging plot against the throne of Nero....
    , senator, leader of the Pisonian conspiracy
    Pisonian conspiracy

    The conspiracy of Gaius Calpurnius Piso in 65 represented one of the major turning points in the reign of the Roman emperor Nero ....
     in AD 68.
  • Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus
    Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus

    Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi Licinianus was a Ancient Rome nobleman that lived in the 1st century. Licinianus was one among the sons of consul of 27 Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi and Scribonia ....
     - briefly deputy emperor of Galba
    Galba

    Servius Sulpicius Galba , also called Servius Sulpicius Galba Caesar Augustus, was Roman Emperor from June 8, 68 until his death. He was the first emperor of the Year of the Four Emperors....
     for five days in 69.
  • Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi
    Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi

    Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi was a Roman usurper, whose existence is questionable, as based only on the unreliable Historia Augusta.His name was Piso, and is said to be descendant of the gens Calpurnia and that he received the title Frugi for his severe virtues; he also possibly received the title Thessalicus....
    , usurper against Gallienus
    Gallienus

    Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus ruled the Roman Empire as co-emperor with his father Valerian from 253 to 260, and then as the sole Roman Emperor from 260 to 268....
     and Valens
    Valens

    Flamin Julius Valens was Roman Emperor , after he was given the Eastern part of the empire by his brother Valentinian I. Valens, sometimes known as the Last of the Romans, was defeated and killed in the Battle of Adrianople, which marked the beginning of the fall of the Western Roman Empire....
     in 261. His existence is unclear.


  • Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso (quaestor)