Marcus Valerius Messalla Appianus

Marcus Valerius Messalla Appianus also known as Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus Appianus (c. 45 BC – 12 BC) was a Roman Senator who served as a consul in the Roman Empire.

Not much is known on his family background and early life. Appianus may have been the son of the consul of 38 BC, Appius Claudius Pulcher by an unnamed wife. He was probably adopted by Marcus Valerius Messalla, the suffect consul of 32 BC, so thus becoming Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus Appianus.

According to the French Historian Jesuit François Catrou et Rouillé, Appianus served as a Quaestor in the army of the Roman Triumvir Mark Antony. After this moment, little is known on his remaining political career except that he served as a consul in 12 BC. Not so long after in serving his consulship, Appianus died.

About 14 BC, Appianus married Claudia Marcella Minor, a daughter of Octavia Minor from her first husband the consul, Gaius Claudius Marcellus, who her maternal uncle was the Roman emperor Augustus. Marcella bore Appianus two children, a daughter called Claudia Pulchra and a son, called Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus.

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