Gaius Vipstanus Messalla Gallus

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Who is Gaius Vipstanus Messalla Gallus?

Vipstanus Messalla Gallus was a Roman politician who was Consul Suffectus in AD 48.

It is assumed that Messalla Gallus was the son of Lucius Vipstanus Gallus and a Valeria Messalla. It is postulated that he was the brother of Lucius Vipstanus Poplicola, whom he succeeded in the consulship as a suffect consul in AD 48.

In 52 or 53 he became a legatus Augusti pro praetore in Pannonia. Then in 59 or 60, Messalla Gallus was appointed Proconsular governor of Asia.

It is believed that Messalla Gallus had a son, Lucius Vipstanus Messalla. Gallus' wife had earlier been married to Marcus Aquilius Regulus, by whom she had a son named Lucius Aquilius Regulus.

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