Marcus Annius Libo was a Roman who lived in the 2nd century. He was the son of Roman consul Marcus Annius Verus

Marcus Annius Verus

Marcus Annius Verus was a Roman man who lived in the 1st and 2nd century. He was the son of an elder Marcus Annius Verus, who gained the rank of senator and praetor. His family originated from Uccibi near Corduba in Spain...

 and Rupilia

Rupilia

Rupilia Faustina was an influential Roman noble woman. She was the daughter of Salonina Matidia and suffect consul Lucius Scribonius Libo Rupilius Frugi Bonus. She possibly had another sister called Rupilia Annia....

 Faustina. He was consul in 128 and suffect consul in 161.

Libo’s father was Spanish, but was of Roman

Ancient Rome

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 descent and came from a senatorial family. His mother was a daughter to suffect consul Lucius Scribonius Libo Rupilius Frugi Bonus

Libo Rupilius Frugi

Libo Rupilius Frugi , whose full name may have been Lucius Scribonius Libo Rupilius Frugi Bonus, was a Roman Suffect Consul and an ancestor to Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius....

 and Salonina Matidia

Salonina Matidia

Salonina Matidia was the daughter and only child of Ulpia Marciana and wealthy praetor Gaius Salonius Matidius Patruinus. Her maternal uncle was the Roman emperor Trajan. Trajan had no children and treated her like his daughter...

 (niece of the Roman Emperor

Roman Emperor

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 Trajan

Trajan

Trajan , was Roman Emperor from 98 to 117 AD. Born into a non-patrician family in the province of Hispania Baetica, in Spain Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor Domitian. Serving as a legatus legionis in Hispania Tarraconensis, in Spain, in 89 Trajan supported the emperor against...

). Libo’s elder sister was Empress Faustina the Elder

Faustina the Elder

Annia Galeria Faustina, more familiarly referred to as Faustina I , was a Roman Empress and wife of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius.-Early life:...

 (mother of Empress Faustina the Younger

Faustina the Younger

Annia Galeria Faustina Minor , Faustina Minor or Faustina the Younger was a daughter of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius and Roman Empress Faustina the Elder. She was a Roman Empress and wife to her maternal cousin Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius...

) and his younger brother Marcus Annius Verus

Marcus Annius Verus (praetor)

Marcus Annius Verus was a distinguished Roman politician who lived in the 2nd century, served as a praetor and was the biological father of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius....

, was the father of Emperor Marcus Aurelius and paternal grandfather to Emperor Commodus

Commodus

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. His cognomen

Cognomen

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 Libo, he inherited from his maternal grandfather.

Libo was consul in 128. In this year, his name is mentioned on a marriage contract was written in Greek

Greek language

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 and Aramaic on papyrus. This papyrus was dated 4 April 128 and was found in 1961 Naham Hever in the Desert of Judea

Judea

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. During the reign of his brother-in-law, Emperor Antoninus Pius

Antoninus Pius

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 (reigned 138

138

Year 138 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Niger and Camerinus...

-161

161

Year 161 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Aurelius...

), named Libo in a Senatus Consultum (see, Senatus consultum ultimum

Senatus consultum ultimum

Senatus consultum ultimum , more properly senatus consultum de re publica defendenda is the modern term given to a decree of the Roman Senate during the late Roman Republic passed in times of emergency...

) and became a senator.

Libo married a noblewoman called Fundania. Fundania bore Libo, two children who were:

• Son, Marcus Annius Libo, he was Legatus
  Legatus
  A legatus was a general in the Roman army, equivalent to a modern general officer. Being of senatorial rank, his immediate superior was the dux, and he outranked all military tribunes...
  
   of Syria
  Syria
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   in 162. In that year, he was with the joint Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus
  Lucius Verus
  Lucius Verus , was Roman co-emperor with Marcus Aurelius, from 161 until his death.-Early life and career:Lucius Verus was the first born son to Avidia Plautia and Lucius Aelius Verus Caesar, the first adopted son and heir of Roman Emperor Hadrian . He was born and raised in Rome...
  
  , in Syria as apart of the Parthia
  Parthia
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  n Military Campaign. He died suddenly, possibly from poisoning. There were rumors, that the joined emperors were involved in his death, strengthened due to the dissensions between Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
• Daughter, Annia Fundania Faustina
  Annia Fundania Faustina
  Annia Fundania Faustina was a noble Roman woman that lived in the 2nd century during the Roman Empire.Fundania Faustina was the daughter of the Roman Consul Marcus Annius Libo and Fundania. Her brother was a younger Marcus Annius Libo who served as a Legatus in Syria in 162...
  
  

When Libo died, against the wishes of Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus married Fundania to a Greek Freedman called Agaclytus

Agaclytus

Agaclytus was the name of two separate people in Classical history:*Agaclytus was a freedman of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, said to have had great influence over Aurelius and his co-emperor, Lucius Verus. He was given in marriage to the noblewoman Fundania, the widow of the paternal uncle of...

. Aurelius did not attend the ceremony or the banquet.

Sources

• http://www.kchanson.com/PTJ/marrcon.html
• http://perso.orange.fr/publie/pison/frugi.htm#53
• http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Lucius_Verus*.html