Founders of Nova Roma

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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. The primary founders of Nova Roma were M. Cassius Iulianus, Fl. Vedius Germanicus, Dec. Iunius Palladius, but instrumental to the founding was C. Iulius Iulianus, who put Cassius and Vedius in contact with each other. 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.

Allegedly, there were 36 patrician founders (or 35 plus one plebeian). We couldn't have yet identified all of them.

The founders of Nova Roma, together with all founding citizens and the primary founders, were:

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

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The gentes as of 21 April, 1998

The records are incomplete about these earliest months of Nova Roma, but we can be sure that only those citizens belonged to Nova Roma until the first Parilia (Birthday of Rome, 21 April) of Nova Roma who wore the following nomina gentilicia. These are the first 31 gentes created in Nova Roma, all of which were patrician by default due to being founding gentes, except the gens Caecilia, which requested to be plebeian at the time of the founding of Nova Roma so that the plebeian element be present at the founding.

This list is supposed to be in chronological order, according to the date of the registration of the gens in Nova Roma. There are uncertainties about this claim due to the incomplete records of the early months of Nova Roma, so this claim should be taken carefully. Gentes marked with bold cannot be found in the Censorial Database by March 1, 1998, in some cases, not even in 1998, although they were in theory enrolled in March-April, 1998:

  1. Vedius or Vedia
  2. Cassius or Cassia
  3. Iunius or Iunia
  4. Marius or Maria
  5. Caecilius or Caecilia (the first and at that time only plebeian gens)
  6. Antonius or Antonia
  7. Octavius or Octavia
  8. Niger or Nigra
  9. Iulius or Iulia
  10. Equitius or Equitia
  11. Aelius or Aelia
  12. Silvanius or Silvania
  13. Cornelius or Cornelia
  14. Velius or Velia
  15. Hadrianus or Hadriana
  16. Cordius or Cordia
  17. Planincolus or Planincola
  18. Drusus or Drusa
  19. Germanicus or Germanica
  20. Matern(i)us or Matern(i)a
  21. Aurelius or Aurelia
  22. Terentius or Terentia
  23. Gladius or Gladia
  24. Lucianus or Luciana
  25. Titus or Tita
  26. Poppaeus or Poppaea
  27. Leoninus or Leonina
  28. Ambrosius or Ambrosia
  29. Flavius or Flavia
  30. Claudius or Claudia
  31. Portius or Portia

List of early citizens of Nova Roma as of 24 July, 1998

This is printout of the Album Civium of the Nova Roma website of 24 July 1998, by P. Ullerius Stephanus Venator. People marked with bold are probably the members of the gentes that have been registered by 21 April, 1998, as well, in the previous section of this article.

Patrician gentes

  1. Aelia: C. Aelius Ericus (Pater), Cn. Aelius Rusticus
  2. Ambrosia: Lucianus Ambrosius Neptunius (Pater)
  3. Antonia: C. Antonius Scaenicus (Pater)
  4. Aurelia: M. Aurelius (Pater)
  5. Cassia: M. Cassius Iulianus (Pater), Patricia Cassia
  6. Claudia: Fl. Claudia Juliana (Mater), L. Claudius Britannicus
  7. Cordia: N. Cordius Paulus (Pater)
  8. Cornelia: L. Cornelius Sulla (Pater)
  9. Drusia: C. Drusus Domitianus (Pater)
  10. Equitia: L. Equitius Cincinnatus (Pater), M. Equitius, Lentulus, Irene Afrania Lentula, Pr. Equitius Accipiter
  11. Flavia: Ti. Flavius Saturninus (Pater)
  12. Germanica: Ag. Germanica Ursula (Mater)
  13. Gladia: M. Gladius Saevus (Pater), Fl. Gladia Xrisanthi
  14. Hadriania: Magnus Hadrianus Ingmarius Cogitatus Thuleus (Pater)
  15. Iulia: C. Iulius Iulianus (Pater)
  16. Iunia: Dec. Iunius Palladius (Pater), L. Iunia Cypria, T. Iunius
  17. Leonina: Dona Leonina Beatrix (Mater)
  18. Luciania: Da. Lucianus Dexippus (Pater)
  19. Maria: Ag. Maria Glauca (Mater), S. Maria Athenia, L. Maria Fimbria
  20. Nigeria: Iunius Niger Montis (Pater)
  21. Octavia: M. Octavius Germanicus (Pater)
  22. Planincolia: L. Planincolius Davidius Germanicus (Pater)
  23. Poppaea: Q. Poppaeus Sabinus (Pater)
  24. Portia: Ti. Portius Sarno (Pater)
  25. Silvania: Am. Silvanius Virbius (Pater), Cl. Silvanius Firmus, Sa. Silvania Panthea, Silvania Flora, Silvania Rhea
  26. Terentia: M. Terentius Varro (Pater)
  27. Titia: Hy Titus Gladius (Pater), Titia Irisia
  28. Vedia: Fl. Vedius Germanicus (Pater), Priscilla Vedia
  29. Velia: Gallio Velius Marcallas (Pater), Au Vellius Natalis, Se Vellius Germanicus

Plebian gentes

  1. Anncina: Pr Anncina Olivia (Mater), Se Anncina Octavia
  2. Aquilia: M. Aquilia (Pater)
  3. Avitabilia: Drusilla Lydia Avitabilia (Mater)
  4. Caecilia Metella: Q. Caecilius Metellus (Pater)
  5. Claudia Lucentia: Q. Claudia Lucentia Aprica (Mater), M. Claudius Lucentius Pavo, P. Claudius Lucentius Severus, T. Claudius Lucentius Sanguineus
  6. Claudia Secunda: Cluadia Secunda Casarophea (Mater)
  7. Hyeania: Sc Hyeanus Africanus (Pater), Fe. Hyeanus Huntericus, Mcs. Hyeanus Vindictus, No. Hyeanus Maximus, Opt. Hyeanus Primus
  8. Labiena: T. Labienus Fortunatus (Pater)
  9. Libertania: Trt. Libertania Regina (Mater)
  10. Lupinia: C. Lupinius Festus (Pater)
  11. Magia: S. Magius Ignigena (Pater)
  12. Messalina: O. Messalina Poppaea (Mater)
  13. Olivaria: G. Olivarius Mezentius (Pater)
  14. Pulchria: Pulchrea Dea (Mater)
  15. Septimia: C. Septimus Moguntius (Pater)
  16. Sergia: L. Sergius Australicus (Pater)
  17. Servia: M. Servius Germanicus (Pater)
  18. Sestia: Al. Sestius Americanus (Pater)
  19. Tullia: Av. Tullius Q. f. Calladius Praedans (Pater), C. Tullius Tiro
  20. Ulleria: St. Ullerius Venator (Pater)
  21. Valeria: M. Valerius Corvinus (Pater)
  22. Victoria: La. Victoria Julia (Mater)
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