Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (consul 238 BC)

Family and descendants

• Tiberius Sempronius Ti. f. Ti. n. Gracchus, consul 215 BC and 213 BC, who was curule aedile in 216 BC, then chosen Master of the Horse by the dictator Marcus Junius Pera, and then twice elected consul. He was an able consul, and known as an effective general of volunteer slave troops after the defeat at Cannae. His death in an ambush in 212 BC deprived him of further advancement; due to his popularity with the People and Senate alike, he would almost certainly have become Censor. The elder son was father of at least one son, and possibly two surviving sons.
• * Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus who was elected to the priesthood in 203 BC at a very young age, and who died in the plague of 174 BC.
• * Tiberius Veturius Gracchus Sempronianus who replaced his dead kinsman as Augur, and whose name indicates that he was born a Sempronius and adopted into the patrician Veturii.
• Publius Sempronius Ti. f. Ti. n. Gracchus, of whom almost nothing is known. He had married and fathered a son Tiberius Gracchus Major by 217 BC, and may have died during the Second Punic War.
• * Tiberius Gracchus Major, who married Scipio's younger daughter, and whose sons became famous as two reformist tribunes of the plebs who were undone by their conservative Opposition.
• ** Sempronia, wife and widow of her mother's cousin Scipio Aemilianus; no issue.
• ** Tiberius Gracchus, his three sons all died young; and
• ** Gaius Gracchus.

  Other possible descendants

• The tribune of the plebs Publius Sempronius Gracchus who attacked Manius Acilius Glabrio and others for corrupt practices and forced him to withdraw his candidacy for censor, may have been another grandson, but this is not certain.
• A late first-century BC descendant may have been the Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus who was condemned to exile on an island for being Julia's lover.