Founders of Nova Roma

Revision as of 15:28, 8 August 2023

The founding of Nova Roma was prepared by five gentes, the patrician gens Cassia, gens Vedia, gens Iunia, gens Maria and the plebeian gens Caecilia. However, by the time of the Foundation Day, on the Kal. Mar. ‡ of 2750 AUC (1998 AD), a number of people have been assembled as the first ever comitia in modern history to and witness the founding of Nova Roma and to elect the first government by acclamation, consisting of two consuls-censors, M. Cassius Iulianus and Fl. Vedius Germanicus, one praetor Dec. Iunius Palladius and one aedilis plebis, Q. Caecilius Metellus. They were also the first four senators of Nova Roma.

These first citizens, together with the founders, were:

1. M. Cassius Iulianus, primary founder
2. Patricia Cassia, primary founder
3. Fl. Vedius Germanicus, primary founder
4. Priscilla Vedia Serena, founder
5. Dec. Iunius Palladius Invictus, primary founder
6. Agrippina Maria Glauca, founder
7. C. Marius Merullus, founder
8. Cn. Marius Asiaticus, founder
9. Secundia Maria Athenia, founder
10. Q. Caecilius Metellus, founder
11. M. Octavius Gracchus, the first citizen after the founders
12. L. Equitius Cincinnatus Augur
13. L. Cornelius Sulla Felix
14. M. Mucius Scaevola Magister
15. Dona Leonina Beatrix
16. C. Olivarius Mezentius
17. Secundia Olivaria Raina
18. N. Cordius Paulus
19. Octavia Messalina Poppaea
20. Irene Afrania Lentula
21. Iunius Niger Montis
22. Tertia Libertania Regina
23. Honoria Lucia
24. Medillina Nonia Naissa
25. Iulius Nemo Machius
26. Sex. Magius Ignigena