Gaius Vipstanus Messalla Gallus (c. 10 BC - aft. 53 AD) was a Consul Suffectus

Roman consul

A consul served in the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic.Each year, two consuls were elected together, to serve for a one-year term. Each consul was given veto power over his colleague and the officials would alternate each month...

 in 48.

He was the son of Lucius Vipstanus Gallus

Lucius Vipstanus Gallus

Lucius Vipstanus Gallus was a Praetor in 17, the year of his death.He married Valeria, born c. 10 BC, daughter of Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus and wife Claudia Marcella Minor and sister of Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus, and had two sons, Lucius Vipstanus Poplicola and Gaius Vipstanus...

 and wife Valeria, and the brother of Lucius Vipstanus Poplicola

Lucius Vipstanus Poplicola

Lucius Vipstanus Poplicola was a Consul in 48.He was the son of Lucius Vipstanus Gallus and wife Valeria, and the brother of Gaius Vipstanus Messalla Gallus, who succeeded him in consulship as a suffect.-References:...

, whom he succeeded in consulship as a suffect. In 52 or 53 he became a legatus Augusti pro praetore

Legatus Augusti pro praetore

A legatus Augusti pro praetore was the official title of the governor of some imperial provinces of the Roman Empire during the Principate era, normally the larger ones or those where legions were based...

 in Pannonia

Pannonia

Pannonia was an ancient province of the Roman Empire bounded north and east by the Danube, coterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia....

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He married an unknown woman, born c. 15 AD, and had a son, Lucius Vipstanus Messalla

Lucius Vipstanus Messalla (orator)

Lucius Vipstanus Messalla was a tribunus militum in 69 and a notable orator.He was the son of Gaius Vipstanus Messalla Gallus and wife....

. His wife later married Marcus Aquilius Regulus, by whom she had a son named Lucius Aquilius Regulus.