Faustus Cornelius Sulla was a Roman senator who lived during the reign of the emperor Tiberius. He was suffect consul in AD 31 with Sextus Tedius Valerius Catullus as his colleague. [1] Faustus was the son of Sulla Felix, a member of the Arval Brethren who died in AD 21, thus a direct descendant of the dictator Sulla. [2] His mother was Sextia and his brother was Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix. [3]
In 21, Faustus married Domitia Lepida the Younger. She was a child of Antonia the Elder by Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 16 BC), a great niece of Emperor Augustus and a granddaughter to Octavia and Triumvir Mark Antony. Lepida had two children from her previous marriage to Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus: Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, and the Empress Messalina, third wife of the Emperor Claudius. [4]
Domitia Lepida bore Faustus a son Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix (22-62), who later married Claudia Antonia, a daughter of Claudius. Faustus died of uncertain causes around 40.
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Preceded by Tiberius Caesar Augustus V Lucius Aelius Seianus | Roman suffect consul 31 with Sex. Tedius Valerius Catullus Lucius Fulcinius Trio | Succeeded by Publius Memmius Regulus as suffectus |