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{{short description|Roman emperor in 238}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox royalty | image = Balbinus Hermitage.jpg | image_size = | alt = Statue of Balbinus | caption = Bust, [[Hermitage Museum]] | succession = [[Roman emperor]] | reign = April/May β July/August 238<ref>For length stimations see: Rea, J.R. (1972). "[http://www.jstor.org/stable/20180380 O. Leid. 144 and the Chronology of A.D. 238]". ''[[Zeitschrift fΓΌr Papyrologie und Epigraphik|ZPE]]'' '''9''', 1β19. No contemporary or later sources give any definitive conclusion.</ref> | predecessor = [[Gordian I]] and [[Gordian II|II]] | successor = [[Gordian III]] | regent = [[Pupienus]] | reg-type = {{nowrap|Co-emperor}} | birth_date = {{circa}} 178<ref>[[Zonaras]] ({{Circa}} 1120) ''[[Epitome]]'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=lXGCAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT41 xvii.17]. "[Pupienus] Maximus was seventy-four years old, Albinus sixty. According to some they reigned about twenty-two days [referring to [[Gordian I]] and [[Gordian II]]], but according to others not quite three months."</ref> | regent2 = [[Maximinus Thrax|Maximinus]] (until June) | reg-type2 = Rival | birth_place = | death_date = July/August 238 (aged approx. 60) | death_place = [[Rome]], [[Roman Italy|Italy]] | burial_place = | issue = <!--list children in order of birth. Use {{plainlist}} or {{unbulleted list}} --> | full name = Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus | regnal name = Imperator Caesar Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus Pius Augustus }} {{Year of Six Emperors}} '''Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus'''<ref>{{cite book |last=Cooley |year=2012 |first=Alison E. |title=The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=497 |isbn=978-0-521-84026-2 |url={{googlebooks|VlghAwAAQBAJ|plainurl=y}} |author-link=Alison E. Cooley |ref={{sfnref|Cooley}}}}</ref> (died July/August 238 AD) was [[Roman emperor]] with [[Pupienus]] for three months in 238, the [[Year of the Six Emperors]].
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