Gens: CORNELIUS patrician
Created: 15th March 2008
Update:  15th August 2014
Status Republic: Patrician: X   Pleb. Nobilis:       Senatorial:      Eques Romanus:  
Republican Family / Cognomen
Patrician Arvina, Blasio, Cossus, Maluginensis, Merenda, Merula, Scapula
Pleb. Nobilis n/a
Senatorial n/a
Equestrian n/a
Imperial Family / Cognomen
Imperators n/a
Consular n/a
Senatorial n/a
Equestrian n/a
Republican Consuls, Tribunes with consular power, Dictators, Magister Equitum, Censors 30 incl. at least two dubious (RE121, RE27)
Imperial Consuls and Emperors n/a
Notes: References to other stemmata for Cethegus, Cinna, Dolabella, Lentulus, Scipio, and Sulla
For plebiean Cornelii see Cornelius_plebian.htm = Balbus, Mammula, Sisenna
For the Cossi and Maluginenses other scenarios are possible, e.g. by Wikander.
Articles: Ôrjan Wikander: Senators and Equites V. Ancestral Pride and Genealocical studies in late Republican Rome", in Opuscula Romana , 19, 1993, pp.77-90.
Settipanni: "Continuite Gentilice" stemma p.63, which I have mostly followed.
Changes 15.8.2014 Header restructured plus minor changes
P.Cornelius
RE253   ?
Ser.Cornelius (P.n.) Maluginensis         L.(Cornelius Cossus)  
cos 485 † 453
Flamen Quirinalis 
RE256     RE12
L.Cornelius Ser.f.P.n.Maluginensis Uritinus  M.(Cornelius Cossus)                         P.(Cornelius Cossus)   A.Cornelius
cos 459 q 459
ment 449
RE246 RE112   RE121 RE307  
M.Cornelius L.f.Ser.n.Maluginensis A.Cornelius M.f.L.n.Cossus   Ser.Cornelius Cossus   P.Cornelius M.f.L.n. A.Cornelius P.f.Cossus
Xvir 450-449 tr mil 437 cos 428 tr cos 426 tr cos 434 ? (Diod) Rutilus Cossus
cos 436 (RE247) m eq 426 Pont Max 431? (RE13) dic 408 tr cos 406
RE250 RE116   RE119 RE113 RE118
P.Cornelius (M.f.) Maluginensis Cn.Cornelius A.f.M.n.Cossus P.Cornelius A.f.M.n.Cossus A.(M?) Cornelius Cossus P.Cornelius (A.f.)P.n.Cossus
tr cos 404 tr cos 414 cos 409 tr cos 408 cos 413 tr cos 415
? = RE114
RE252 RE248   RE254 RE328 RE122   RE114 RE117   RE120 RE40, 54 RE27 RE39
P.Cornelius P.f.M.n.   M.Cornelius P.f.M.n. Ser.Cornelius P.f.M.n. P.Cornelius Scipio A.Cornelius P.f.A.n.Cossus Arvina A.Cornelius Cossus Cn.Cornelius P.f.A.n.Cossus P.Cornelius P.f.A.n. Cossus P.Cornelius L.Cornelius P.Cornelius
Maluginensis Maluginensis Maluginensis tr cos 395 m eq 353 349 dic 385 tr cos 406 404 401 tr cos 395 tr cos 389 385 tr cos 387 ? tr cos 394
tr cos 397 390 m eq 396 cens suff 392 tr cos 386 384 382 380 interex 391 389 cos 343 332 dic 322 ? = RE113 amb 398
cos ? 393 (abdicated)(RE251) tr cos 376 370 368 SEE STEMMA ½ brother to P.Licinius
cos ? 393 m eq 361 Calvus tr cos 400
RE315 RE249 RE66   RE115
Cornelius Scapula M.Cornelius Maluginensis Cn.Cornelius Lentulus P.Cornelius A.f.P.n.Arvina A.Cornelius Cossus
m eq 362 tr cos 369 367 cos 306 288 tr cos 369 367
? = RE248 cens 294
RE316 RE79   RE186 RE301 RE41 cf 66,316
P.Cornelius P.f.Scapula P.Cornelius Calussa Cn.Cornelius Lentulus   L.Cornelius Lentulus Ser.Cornelius Lentulus P.Cornelius Rufinus P.Cornelius
cos ? 328 pont max c 332 cos 327 dict 334 or 333 IIvir Navalis 310
pont max dic 320
cf RE 344
P.Scipio Barbatus ? RE206        
Ser.Cornelius Cn.f.Cn.n.Lentulus P.Cornelius Ser.f. Ti.Cornelius Ser.f.Lentulus   Cn.Cornelius P.f.
cos 303 or a brother of the dict
RE 139 RE267   RE210 RE302
P.Cornelius Dolabella Ser.Cornelius P.f.Ser.n.Merenda L.Cornelius Ti.f.Ser.n. P.Cornelius Cn.f.P.n.Rufinus
cos 283 cos 274 Lentulus Caudinus cos 290 277
SEE STEMMA cos 275 dic 292/285
SEE STEMMA
RE266 RE42 RE73 ?   RE382
M.Cornelius Cethegus L.Cornelius Merula P.Cornelius Merenda P.Cornelius Cn.Cornelius P.f.Cn.n.Blasio   P.Cornelius P.f. Sulla
ca 250 cos cand for 216 pr 234 cos 270 257 cens 265 flamen Dialis
SEE STEMMA RE has filiation as L.f.Cn.n. c.250
SEE STEMMA
RE270 RE268 RE265  
L.Cornelius L.f.Merula Cn.Cornelius Merula Cn.Cornelius Merenda (Cornelius Blasio)
pr urb 198 cos 193 amb 189-188 (or = RE265) pr 194
amb 189-188 (or RE268)
RE271 RE269 RE22 RE103 RE74  
L.Cornelius Merula Cn.Cornelius Merlua Cn.Cornelius L.Cornelius Cinna Cn.Cornelius Blasio  
aed cur 161 amb 162 154 Flam Dialis 174 mon 169-158 pr 194 Sicilia
† by 171 SEE STEMMA Hisp Cit 199-197 ovatio 196
  RE76  
Cornelius Merula P.Cornelius Blasio
amb 170 pr 165
RE272 RE76  
L.Cornelius Merula P.Cornelius P.f.Blasio Cn. Cornelius Blasio  
cos suff 87 monet 169/158
Flam Dialis † 87 suicide pr late 140s
RE273 RE75  
L.Cornelius Merula Cn.Cornelius Cn.f. Blasio  
ment by Varro 54 in book on agriculture monet 112/111
of consular family