Cayo Julio Vero Máximo

Denario coined during the government of Maximino the Trace in which the bust of Maximus is shown.

Gaius or Gauius Julius Verus Maximus Caesar  (217-238) was the only son of Maximinus the Thracian and his wife Cecilia Paulina and a Caesar of the Roman Empire from the year 236 until his death in 238. He was probably of Gothic origin.

Education

According to the Historia Augusta, Máximo was so beautiful that particularly lascivious women everywhere fell in love with him and some aspired to have a child with him. In addition to being a handsome young man, Máximo he was also very well educated and educated, although he devoted himself more to the good life than his father liked. Alejandro Severo had a sincere appreciation for him: when he invited him to a dinner in honor of his father, but he did not wear the appropriate attire for dinner, Alejandro provided it for him.

Caesar

Proud, his father paraded him through the streets dressed in a breastplate, shield, sword and helmet of gold and silver, encrusted with jewels, to highlight his beauty before everyone. Maximino raised him to the dignity of co-emperor, sharing a throne with him, although he really had little power. He proclaimed himself a Germanicus (Germanicus ) despite having no military skills, and became very unpopular with the Praetorians and commanders of the legions.

Deposition and murder

In 238, he was with his father on the Danube border when the Senate declared him an enemy of the state, naming Pupienus and Balbinus emperors. Máximo and his father then headed towards Italy, but Aquileia blocked their way. His troops, the soldiers of Legio II Parthica, suffering from hunger, disease, trapped in a bloody and futile siege and seized with fear, turned hostile. On May 10, around noon, during a lull in the fighting, the soldiers mutinied, tore up their military insignia, to report their deposition, and killed her father, and also hers, while they were both lying in their tent. Then they put their heads on pikes and showed them to the Aquillians, and afterwards they sent them to Rome.

In Rome, the senate ordered his and Maximinus' damnatio memoriae, their bodies mutilated and thrown to the dogs, their statues and busts toppled, and their praetorian prefect murdered along with all his friends. This occurred in the Year of the Six Emperors.