Lucius Vipstanus Gallus

Lucius Vipstanus Gallus (died 17) was a Roman senator who is the first documented member of the gens Vipstana.

This led Ronald Syme to observe that either Lucius or Marcus married a daughter of Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus and Claudia Marcella Minor, who is named Valeria Messallia.

[3] This alliance with the gens Valeria led to the prominence of the family during the first centuries of the Roman Empire.

[1] According to the French historian Christian Settipani, after the death of her husband Paullus Aemilius Lepidus, Marcella married the Roman Senator Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus.

[4] Marcella bore Messallinus a daughter called Valeria Messallia, born ca.