Annia Faustina
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Annia Aurelia Faustina | |||||||||
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Roman empress | |||||||||
Tenure | AD 221 | ||||||||
Spouse | Pomponius Bassus Elagabalus | ||||||||
Issue | Pomponia Ummidia Pomponius Bassus (consul 259) | ||||||||
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Father | Tiberius Claudius Severus Proculus | ||||||||
Mother | Annia Faustina |
Annia Aurelia Faustina (fl. c. 201 – c. 222 CE) was an Anatolian Roman noblewoman. She was briefly married to the Roman emperor Elagabalus in 221 CE and thus was a Roman empress.[1] She was Elagabalus' third wife.[2][3]
Ancestry and family
Faustina was of noble descent, the daughter and only child of the wealthy heiress Annia Faustina and the Roman Senator, consul Tiberius Claudius Severus Proculus. Her parents were maternal second-cousins.
Her paternal grandparents were the
Her paternal great-grandparents were the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius; Roman empress Faustina the Younger; the Roman senator, philosopher Gnaeus Claudius Severus Arabianus and his wife, whose name is unknown. Her maternal great-grandparents were Marcus Aurelius’ sister, the noblewoman Annia Cornificia Faustina and Gaius Ummidius Quadratus Annianus Verus a Roman Senator who served as a suffect consul in 146. Thus she was a descendant of the former ruling Nerva–Antonine dynasty of the Roman Empire. Although by birth, Annia Aurelia Faustina was of the gens Claudia, she was not named after her father; instead she was named in honor of her parents' relations to the gens Aurelia, the gens Annia and the Nerva–Antonine dynasty.
Early life
Annia Aurelia Faustina was born and raised on her mother's estate in
About 216, her father may have made a political alliance with a Roman Senator who was a member of the gens Pomponia that resulted in her marrying Pomponius Bassus.
Upon her marriage, they settled at her Pisidian estates. Pomponius treated Annia well and they both lived in domestic tranquility. She bore at least two known children during her marriage: a daughter,
By 218, her parents had died and Annia inherited her mother's estate and their fortune, becoming a very wealthy heiress. On the site of the estate inscriptions have survived proclaiming her inheritance of the property from her parents and that she was its owner.
Second marriage to Elagabalus
In the year 221,
Annia became Empress, and it seemed for a time that the
Life after Elagabalus
When her marriage to Elagabalus ended, Annia Aurelia Faustina returned with her children to the Pisidian estate. She spent the final years of her life there. When she died, her daughter Pomponia Ummidia inherited the estate, and her descendants had become various distinguished nobles and politicians in Roman Society.
Severan dynasty family tree
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References
- JSTOR 45288601.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-938113-5, retrieved 2024-06-26
- ISSN 2045-239X.
- ISBN 978-90-474-1134-5, retrieved 2024-06-26
- ISSN 1899-2722.
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- Septimius Severus: the African emperor; by Anthony Richard Birley; 2nd ed. Routledge, 1999
- Marcus Aurelius; by Anthony Richard Birley, Routledge, 2000
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- Annia Faustina, Forum Ancient Coins