Nigrinian

Also known as Nigrinianus, Marcus Aurelius Nigrinianus

Marcus Aurelius Nigrinianus, known in English as Nigrinian (d. 284/285) was a grandson of Roman emperor Carus who died young and was deified by Carus' eldest son Carinus. He was the last family member of an emperor to be deified posthumously.

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Person.name: Nigrinianus
Person.honorific_prefix: Divus
Person.image: Nigrinianus.jpg
Person.native_name: Marcus Aurelius Nigrinianus
Person.birth_date: October 284 (possibly)
Person.death_date: 284-285
Person.era: Crisis of the Third Century
Person.known_for: grandson of Carus
Person.parents: Paulina (mother, possibly)
Person.relatives: Carus (grandfather)Carinus (uncle)Numerian (uncle)
Person.family: Caran dynasty
Person.honours: Consecratio

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date of death: 0284-00-00
date of birth: 0283-01-01
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==Biography== Nigrinian is generally assumed to be a child of Carus' eldest son Carinus, who issued the coins commemorating him, but he could have been the child of Carus' younger son Numerian or their sister Paulina. A now lost inscription from the Forum Romanum, set up for him by Carinus's perfectissimus rationalis Gemimius Festus, merely calls him Divo Nigriniano nepoti Cari (divine Nigrinianus grandson of Carus) without mentioning his parents. This leads historian John Kent to doubt that he was the son of either Carinus or Numerian.