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Cognomen

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, see Albinus (cognomen)

Albinus (cognomen)

Albus or Albinus is a Latin surname, or cognomen, best known as the name of the main branch of the patrician gens Postumia. Albus, Albinus, the original form of the name, means "foreign", "someone of ofther jurisdiction" unlike, Album, Albus, which means "white"...

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Lucceius Albinus was the Roman

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 Procurator of Judea from AD 62

62

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 until 64 and the governor

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 of Mauretania

Mauretania

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 from 64 until 69.

Appointed procurator

Procurator

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 by the Emperor

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 Nero

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 following the death of his predecessor, Porcius Festus

Porcius Festus

Porcius Festus was procurator of Judea from about AD 59 to 62, succeeding Antonius Felix. His exact time in office is not known. The earliest proposed date for the start of his term is c. A.D. 55-6, while the latest is A.D. 61. These extremes have not gained much support and most scholars opt...

, Albinus faced his first challenge while traveling from Alexandria

Alexandria

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 to his new position in Judea. The Jewish High Priest Ananus ben Ananus used the opportunity created by Festus' death to convene the Sanhedrin

Sanhedrin

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 and have James the brother of Jesus

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 sentenced to death by stoning

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 for violation of religious law. A delegation sent by citizens upset over the perceived breach of justice met Albinus before he reached Judea, and Albinus responded with a letter informing Ananus that it was illegal to convene the Sanhedrin without Albinus' permission and threatening to punish the priest. Ananus was deposed by Agrippa II

Agrippa II

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 before Albinus' arrival.

Immediately upon his arrival in Jerusalem, Albinus began an effort to remove the sicarii

Sicarii

Sicarii is a term applied, in the decades immediately preceding the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, to an extremist splinter group of the Jewish Zealots, who attempted to expel the Romans and their partisans from Judea using concealed daggers .-History:The Sicarii used...

 from the region. Josephus also records that Albinus became the friend of a High Priest named Ananus due to the priest's gift-giving. The sicarii responded to Albinus's efforts by capturing an assistant to the priest Eleazar, son of Ananus, and demanding the release of ten imprisoned sicarii in exchange for the assistant. The release was arranged by Ananus.

When Albinus learned that he was to be succeeded by Gessius Florus

Gessius Florus

Gessius Florus was the Roman procurator of Judea from 64 until 66. Born in Clazomenae, Florus was appointed to replace Lucceius Albinus as procurator by the Emperor Nero due to his wife's friendship with Nero's wife Poppaea...

, he emptied the prisons by executing prisoners charged with more serious offenses and allowing the remaining prison population to pay for their release.

Following his time in Judea, Albinus was chosen by Nero to be governor of Mauretania Caesariensis

Mauretania Caesariensis

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. The province of Mauretania Tingitana

Mauretania Tingitana

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 was added to Albinus's governor duties by the Emperor Galba

Galba

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. Following Galba's death, Albinus supported Otho

Otho

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 in the year of political anarchy

Year of the Four Emperors

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(69), which followed Nero's death. Following Otho's death, Albinus was rumored to have styled himself as a king using the title "Juba". Albinus and his wife were assassinated shortly afterwards.