User:Appietas/Appius Claudius Pulcher consul 79 BC

Appius Claudius Pulcher (ca.130 - 76 BC).

Roman politician and general of the Italic ("Social") and Civil Wars, and post-Sullan periods.

One of the three praetors of 89 BC who presided over the en masse enrollment of the majority of the Italic population as Roman citizens under the terms of the Lex Iulia and the Lex Plautia Papiria.

Also notable for having his army "stolen" from him in 87 BC by the deposed consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna, his command rights cancelled by the victorious Marians, and for his subsequent expulsion from the Senate by the censors of 86 BC, who included his own nephew Lucius Marcius Philippus.

An adherent of Sulla in the Civil Wars, after whose victory he held a belated consulate in 79, and commanded Macedonia province 77-76 BC, where he died during hard campaigning in the Rhodope mountains.

Lineage & family
Youngest son of the pro-Gracchan prince Appius Claudius Pulcher (consul 143, censor 136) by his second wife, apparently born in the year of his father's death (130 BC, or the early months of 129).