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Titus Fulvius Iunius Quietus (died 261) was a Roman usurper
Roman usurper

Usurpers are individuals or groups of individuals who obtain and maintain the power or rights of another by force and without legal authority. Usurpers were a common feature of the late Roman Empire, especially from the crisis of the third century onwards, when political instability became the rule....
 against Roman Emperor
Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
 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....
.

Quietus was the son of Fulvius Macrianus
Macrianus Major

Fulvius Macrianus , also called Macrianus Major, was a Roman usurper. He was one of Valerian fiscal officers. More precisely, sources refer to him as being in the charge of the whole state accounts or, in the language of a later age, as count of the treasury and the person in charge of markets and provisions....
 and a noblewoman, possibly named Iunia. According to Historia Augusta, he was a military tribune
Tribune

Tribune was a title shared by 10 elected officials in the Roman Republic. Tribunes had the power to convene the Plebeian Council and to act as its president, which also gave them the exclusive right to propose legislation before it....
 under Valerian
Valerian (emperor)

Publius Licinius Valerianus , commonly known in English language as Valerian or Valerian I, was the Roman Emperor from 253 to 260....
, but this information is challenged by historians.

He gained the imperial office with his brother Macrianus Minor
Macrianus Minor

Titus Fulvius Iunius Macrianus , also known as Macrianus Minor, was a Roman usurper. He was the son of Macrianus Major, also known as Macrianus Major....
, after the death of Emperor Valerian in the Sassanid campaign of 260. With the army deep in the enemy territory, the soldiers elected the two emperors.






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Titus Fulvius Iunius Quietus (died 261) was a Roman usurper
Roman usurper

Usurpers are individuals or groups of individuals who obtain and maintain the power or rights of another by force and without legal authority. Usurpers were a common feature of the late Roman Empire, especially from the crisis of the third century onwards, when political instability became the rule....
 against Roman Emperor
Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
 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....
.

Quietus was the son of Fulvius Macrianus
Macrianus Major

Fulvius Macrianus , also called Macrianus Major, was a Roman usurper. He was one of Valerian fiscal officers. More precisely, sources refer to him as being in the charge of the whole state accounts or, in the language of a later age, as count of the treasury and the person in charge of markets and provisions....
 and a noblewoman, possibly named Iunia. According to Historia Augusta, he was a military tribune
Tribune

Tribune was a title shared by 10 elected officials in the Roman Republic. Tribunes had the power to convene the Plebeian Council and to act as its president, which also gave them the exclusive right to propose legislation before it....
 under Valerian
Valerian (emperor)

Publius Licinius Valerianus , commonly known in English language as Valerian or Valerian I, was the Roman Emperor from 253 to 260....
, but this information is challenged by historians.

He gained the imperial office with his brother Macrianus Minor
Macrianus Minor

Titus Fulvius Iunius Macrianus , also known as Macrianus Minor, was a Roman usurper. He was the son of Macrianus Major, also known as Macrianus Major....
, after the death of Emperor Valerian in the Sassanid campaign of 260. With the army deep in the enemy territory, the soldiers elected the two emperors. The support of his father, controller of the imperial treasure, and the influence of Balista
Balista

Balista or Ballista , also known in the sources with the probably wrong name of "Callistus", was one of the Thirty Tyrants of Historia Augusta, and supported the rebellion of Macriani against Emperor Gallienus....
, Praetorian prefect
Praetorian prefect

Praetorian prefect was the constant title of a high office in the Roman Empire state that changed fundamentally in nature.The praetorian prefect was commander of the Praetorian Guard until Constantine I abolished the guard in 314....
 of the late Emperor Valerian, proved instrumental in his promotion.

Quietus and Macrianus, elected 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....
s, had to face the lawful Emperor 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....
, at the time in the West. Quietus and Ballista stayed in the eastern provinces, while his brother and father marched their army to Europe to seize control of the Roman Empire
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
. After the defeat of his brother and father in Thrace
Thrace

Thrace is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe. Today the name Thrace designates a region spread over southern Bulgaria , northeastern Greece , and European Turkey ....
 in 261, Quietus lost the control of the provinces in favour of Odaenathus
Odaenathus

Lucius Septimius Odaenathus, or Odenatus...
 of Palmyra
Palmyra

Palmyra was in ancient times an important city of central Syria, located in an oasis 215 km northeast of Damascus and 120 km southwest of the Euphrates....
. Forced to flee to the city of Emesa, he was killed by its inhabitants, possibly instigated by Ballista (Zonaras
Joannes Zonaras

Ioannes Zonaras was a Byzantine Empire chronicler and theology, who lived at Constantinople.Under Emperor Alexios I Komnenos he held the offices of Drungarios of the Vigla and private secretary to the emperor, but after Alexios' death, he retired to the monastery of St Glykeria, where he spent the rest of his life in writing books....
 xii.24).

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