Consul Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus

26 Sep 106 BC - 29 Sep 48 BC

• Name	Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
  Title	Consul
  Birth	26 Sep 106 BC  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Military - Old World	Pompey joined Marcus Crassus and Julius Caesar in the unofficial military-political alliance known as the First Triumvirate  [1]
  Death	29 Sep 48 BC	Egypt   [1]
  	When Pompey was defeated at the Battle of Pharsalus, he sought refuge in Egypt, where he was assassinated
  Person ID	I4994	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo,   b. 135 BC   d. 87 BC
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F14011	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mucia Tertia   d. 31 BC
  Marriage	79 BC
  Children	1. Roman General Sextus Pompey,   b. 67 BC   d. 35 BC  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Pompeia Magna,   b. 80 BC   d. 35 BC  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Gnaeus Pompeius, the Younger,   b. 75 BC   d. 12 Apr 45 BC  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F1417	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Places

  Statue of Pompey Pompey

  
  

• Sources

  [S482] Wikipedia: Pompey, (Name: Wikipedia;), Pompey the Great. Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Latin: [ˈŋnae̯ʊs pɔmˈpeːi̯ʊs ˈmaŋnʊs]; 29 September 106 BC – 28 September 48 BC), known in English as Pompey /ˈpɒmpiː/ or Pompey the Great, was a Roman general and statesman. He played a significant role in the transformation of Rome from republic to empire. Early in his career, he was a partisan and protégé of the Roman general and dictator Sulla; later, he became the political ally, and finally the enemy, of Julius Caesar. A member of the senatorial nobility, Pompey entered into a military career while still young. He rose to prominence serving the dictator Sulla as a commander in the civil war of 83–82 BC. Pompey's success as a general while young enabled him to advance directly to his first Roman consulship without following the traditional cursus honorum (the required steps to advance in a political career). He was elected as Roman consul on three occasions (70, 55, 52 BC). He celebrated three Roman triumphs, served as a commander in the Sertorian War, the Third Servile War, the Third Mithridatic War, and in various other military campaigns. Pompey's early success earned him the cognomen Magnus – "the Great" – after his boyhood hero Alexander the Great. His adversaries gave him the nickname adulescentulus carnifex ("teenage butcher") for his ruthlessness.[1] In 60 BC, Pompey joined Crassus and Caesar in the informal political alliance known as the First Triumvirate, cemented by Pompey's marriage with Caesar's daughter, Julia. After the deaths of Julia and Crassus (in 54 and 53 BC), Pompey switched to the political faction known as the optimates— a conservative faction of the Roman Senate. Pompey and Caesar then began contending for leadership of the Roman state in its entirety, eventually leading to Caesar's Civil War. Pompey was defeated at the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC, and he sought refuge in Ptolemaic Egypt, where he was assassinated by the courtiers of Ptolemy XIII. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompey