Decimus Valerius Asiaticus (Legatus)

Decimus Valerius Asiaticus (35-after 69 AD) was a Roman Senator who served as a Legatus of Gallia Belgica.

Asiaticus was of Praetorian rank. He was the son of the Roman Senator, consul Decimus Valerius Asiaticus and Lollia Saturnina. There is a possibility he may have had siblings. He and along with his family were originated from Vienna,Gallia Narbonensis.

The father of Asiaticus was of Allobrogian origin and his political career was a contemporary of the rule of the Roman emperors Tiberius, Caligula and Claudius. His father was a respected, wealthy, and prominent Roman Senator. The elder Asiaticus in 35 served as a suffect consul and again in 46, served as an ordinary consul. He was the first citizen from Vienna to become consul, the first man from Gaul to attain the consulship and became the first man from Gaul to be admitted into the Roman Senate. The elder Asiaticus had a brother who served as a Roman Senator until 47.

The mother of Asiaticus was the social, beautiful woman Lollia Saturnina, whose younger sister Lollia Paulina was a Roman empress and the third wife of the Roman emperor Caligula. Saturnina was the first daughter of the suffect consul Marcus Lollius and the noble woman Volusia Saturnina, as she was a first cousin to Roman emperor Tiberius and his brother, the General Nero Claudius Drusus.

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