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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 8024984, member: 110226&quot;]Here&#039;s an excerpt from Wikipedia regarding the ascension of Commodus as co-emperor with his father, Marcus Aurelius. </p><p><br /></p><p><i>Joint rule with father (176–180)</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Marcus Aurelius was the first emperor since Vespasian to have a legitimate biological son and, though he himself was the fifth in the line of the so-called Five Good Emperors, each of whom had adopted his successor, it seems to have been his firm intention that Commodus should be his heir. Commodus was the first (and until 337, the only) emperor &quot;born in the purple,&quot; meaning during his father&#039;s reign.[citation needed] On 27 November 176, Marcus Aurelius granted Commodus the rank of Imperator and, in the middle of 177, the title Augustus, giving his son the same status as his own and formally sharing power.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>On 23 December 176, the two imperatores celebrated a joint triumph, and Commodus was given tribunician power. On 1 January 177, Commodus became consul for the first time, which made him, aged 15, the youngest consul in Roman history up to that time. He subsequently married Bruttia Crispina before accompanying his father to the Danubian front once more in 178. Marcus Aurelius died there on 17 March 180, leaving the 18-year-old Commodus sole emperor.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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