Gens: CEIONIUS
Created: 23rd October 2013
Update:  13th May 2015
Status Republic: Patrician:     Pleb. Nobilis:       Senatorial:      Eques Romanus:  
Republican Family / Cognomen
Patrician n/a
Pleb. Nobilis n/a
Senatorial n/a
Equestrian n/a
Imperial Family / Cognomen
Imperators Aurelius Verus
Consular Commodus, Proculus, Silvanus, Varus, Volusianus
Senatorial n/a
Equestrian Alienus
Republican Consuls, Tribunes with consular power, Dictators, Magister Equitum, Censors n/a
Imperial Consuls and Emperors 8 incl. Verus and up to year 289
Notes: or Caeionius
Literature Barnes, T.D.: "Two Senators under Constantine", in Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 65 (1975), pp. 40-49 with stemma p.45 on C.Ceionius Rufus Volusianus, followed below.
Charneux, Pierre: M.Vettulenus Civica Barbarus, in Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 81, 1957. pp. 121-140.
Chausson, Francois:  Regards sur la Famille de l'Empereur Lucius Verus, in Consuetudinis Amor,  Fragments d'histoire romaine (II-VI siècles) offerts à J.-P. Callu, in Saggi di Storia Antica 19, 2002, p.103-161
proposes a very different stemma for Ceionius, Vettulenus and Avidius. Not incorporated below, but shows how uncertain this is.
Dabrowa: Syria p.68-69 (L.Ceionius Commodus cos 78)
PIR2 letter R stemma on p.102 for R161 and family connections
Settipani: Gentilice p.370-373 and 384-389 on the late Ceionii. He proposes that R161 and C609 are sons of Ceionius Varus by a Rufia Procula. This is of course also possible.
See also stemma in Addendum p.30.
Syme: Antonine Relatives: Ceionii and Vettuleni in RP Vol. I p.325-332
Changes 29.11.2013: Header restructured. Avidius Nigrinus' daughters corrected so same as in stemma for the Avidii.. Plautia's (FOS 615) 3rd husband corrected to Sex.Vettulenus Civica Cerialis cos 106.
Ceionius Postumus and Ceionius Postumianus are probably false, invented by the Historia Augusta.
1.12.2013: children of IMP L.VERUS added.. First wife of L.Commodus cos 78 added (see Chausson p.114-116)
13.5.2015: several minor corrections/additions, added C.Ceionius Rufius Volusianus and family, added possible nephew to cos 78, added more literature
C597 RE1 Demougin 115
Ceionius
praef castrorum 9 AD
? C603 RE5
(Ceionia)       L.Ceionius Commodus
cos ord 78 Syria 78?-82?
from Bononia in Etruria, VIIvir epulon
~ T.Avidius Quietus ? = [..onius] magister of sodales Augustales 68/69
cos suff 93 1 ~ ignota
2 ~ Appia Sex.f. Severa (A955), 
dt of Sex.Appius Severus, quaestorius
1
   
A184 RE Avid 1a C604 RE6 C598 FOS615 A1408 FOS615 RE4
HADRIANUS [C.Avi]dius C[eioni]us L.Ceionius Commodus ~  1 Plautia 2 ~   C.Avidius Nigrinus Plautia 3 ~   Sex.Vettulenus Civica Cerialis
IMP 117-138 [Comm]odu[s] cos ord 106 dt of L.Aelius Lamia cos suff 110 † 118 <== cos 106
adopted 136 procos Maced a 114 coopted to sodales Plautius Aelianus ~  1 ignota (Fabia?) (some prefer as Plautia's 3rd husband his son
  Augustales 94 cos 80 Sex.Vettulenus Civica Pompeianus cos 136)
  ? pont   1   2  
A513 C605 RE7   FOS128   FOS130 RE2 C602
ANTONINUS PIUS L.Ceionius Commodus                   (Ceionius) (Avidia)       Avidia Plautia   M. Vettulenus Sex.f. Civica Barbarus
IMP 138-161 L. AELIUS CAESAR 136 ~ L.Epidius Titius cos 157
adopted 138 * c.103 pr 130 cos ord 136 137 † 1.1.138 ? ~ L.Aelius Caesar Aquilinus not a Ceionius as thought until 1957
  XVvir sf   <== cos 125
  ~ (Avidia)   ==>        
       
  C606 RE8 C614 RE16 FOS205 C612 RE14 FOS204 C610 RE12 P460   P473
IMP. CAESAR L. AURELIUS VERUS AUGUSTUS   Ceionia Plautia       Ceionia Fabia M.Ceionius Silvanus Plautius Quintillus   L.Titius Plautius Aquilinus
(L. Ceionius Commodus) cos 156 cos 159 cos 162
(L. Aelius Aurelius Commodus 138)
* 130 † 169 q 153 cos 154 161 167 IMP 161-69 ~ Q.Servilius Pudens ~ Plautius Quintillus ~ Ceionia Fabia
augur, frat Arv cos 166 cos 159 <==
~ Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla ↓ ==>
dt of MARCUS AURELIUS
   
RE Annius 123 FOS133 ? ? P474   RE11 608
(Aurelia)         daughter   son M. Peducaeus Plautius Quintillus Ceionius Postumus SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS
* 165 or 166 † infancy † infancy cos 177 Invented by IMP 193-211
Historia Augusta ?
~ Claudius Pompeianus Quintianus ~Fadilla, dt of MARCUS AURELIUS ~ Aurelia Messalina
† 182 exc. after plot against COMMOUS ?  adopted 193
   
RE2 C599 N C1186   RE10 C607
Nummius Ceionius Albinus IMP CAESAR D.CLODIUS SEPTIMIUS ALBINUS Ceionius Postumianus
noble exc by SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS D.Clodius Albinus relative of IMP CLODIUS
cos suff ante 193 cos 194 Invented by Historia Augusta ?
Caesar 193 Augustus 196-197 †
C601 descent from Ceionius probably invented
L.Ceionius Alienus
procurator Sardinia 211/222
C611 PLRE Varus 1 ? N227
(M.) Ceionius Varus             (Ceionia) ~ (C.Rufius) Nummius Albinus
PUR 284 285 son of C.Rufius cos II 263
Proculus
clar vir 236
for his possible descendents see the stemma in 
Settipani p.371 and in RE Vol III-2 p1861-1862
Outside scope of this project. ?
   
   
PLRE Marina 2 C609 PLRE Proc 8 ? R161 RE17 RE18 PLRE Volus 4  
Caeionia   [Ce?]ionius Proculus   C.Ceionius Rufius Volusianus   ~ (Nummia Albina)
Marina cos suff 289 cos suff c.280 cos ord 311 314 or grand dt
corrector Italia 281/3-289/291 (8 yrs)
~ Crepereius procos Africa c.305/306
Amantius PUR 310/311 313-315
PLRE Amant 3 XVvir sf
↓ vir clar or adopted son of C611
 
 
RE3 C600 N231 PLRE Albinus 7 N239 RE21 PLRE Albinus 14
(filia)         M.Nummius Ceionius Annius Albinus Caia Nummia Ceionia     Ceionius Rufius Albinus  
pr urb ca 320 Umbria C.f. Rufia Albina * 303 cos ord 335
~ Caecina Sabinus, son of see Nummii sacerdos at Beneventum PUR 335-337
Antonius Caecina Sabinus or son of a M.Nummius Albinus and
cos ord 316 a Ceionia (sister to R161)
   
PLRE Sabinus 13 PLRE Post 3 RE24 PLRE Volsus 5
Rufius Caeionius Sabinus   Postuminanus C.Ceionius Rufius Volusianus Lampadius
vir clar,  grd son of R161 pr 340, cos Byzacenae
pont maior, augur publicus advocate c.383 PP Illyricum 354, PP Gallia 355
ment 377 senator 395 PUR 365
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