Ulpia gens

Origin

Members

• Marcus Ulpius Trajanus, father of the emperor Trajan, was consul suffectus in AD 72.
• Ulpia, the aunt of Trajan, married Aelius Marullinus, and was the grandmother of the emperor Hadrian.
• Marcus Ulpius M. f. Trajanus, consul in AD 91; he was subsequently adopted by the emperor Nerva, and was himself emperor from AD 98 to 117.
• Ulpia M. f. Marciana, the sister of Trajan, married Gaius Salonius Matidius Patruinus.
• Ulpius Marcellus, a jurist during the reigns of Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.
• Ulpius Marcellus, perhaps a son of the jurist, governor of Britannia during the reign of Commodus.
• Ulpius Marcellus, probably the same person as the governor of Britannia, although uncertainties of chronology have led some scholars to believe he had a son of the same name.
• Ulpius Julianus, praetorian prefect under the emperor Macrinus, he was sent to put down the rebellion of Elagabalus, but was slain by his own troops, in AD 218.
• Marcus Ulpius Leurus, a native of Hypata, and consul suffectus during later second century.
• Ulpia Gordiana, mother of the emperor Gordian I, according to the Augustan History.
• Marcus Ulpius Eubiotus Leurus, son of the consul Leurus, was consul suffectus in an uncertain year around AD 230.
• Marcus Ulpius M. f. Flavius Tisamenus, elder son of the consul Eubiotus Leurus.
• Marcus Ulpius M. f. Pupienus Maximus, younger son of the consul Eubiotus Leurus.
• Ulpius Crinitus, according to Vopiscus, a successful general in the time of Valerian, who claimed to be a descendant of the house of Trajan. He adopted Lucius Domitius Aurelianus, the future emperor Aurelian, alongside whom he was appointed consul suffectus in AD 257. Modern historians suspect that he was an invention of the author, but if he existed, he may have been the father of the empress Ulpia Severina.
• Ulpia Severina, the wife of Aurelian, and Roman empress from AD 271 to 275.
• Gaius Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus, one of the "Thirty Tyrants", he rebelled against Postumus and proclaimed himself emperor in AD 269, during the reign of Gallienus, but was slain at Moguntiacum about two months later.
• Marcus Ulpius Pupienus Silvanus, a senator mentioned in an inscription from Surrentum in Campania, dating between the late third and mid-fourth century; from his name perhaps a descendant of the consul Marcus Ulpius Leurus.