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Arrecina Tertulla

1st century AD wife of Roman emperor Titus

Field	Value
name	Arrecina Tertulla
image	Arrecina Tertulla.jpg
caption	Arrecina Tertulla from Guillaume Rouillé's Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum
native_name	ARRECINA TERTVLLA
native_name_lang	Latin
known_for	first wife of Titus
spouse	Titus
children	Julia Flavia
mother	Julia Ursa
father	Marcus Arrecinus Clemens

Arrecina Tertulla was a Roman woman who lived in the 1st century CE. She was the first wife of Titus and possibly the mother of his daughter Julia Flavia.

Biography

Early life

Tertulla came from an Equestrian-rank family of obscure origin. Her mother was Julia Ursa and her father was Marcus Arrecinus Clemens, who served as Emperor Caligula's praetorian prefect in 38 A.D. Tertulla's brother Marcus Arrecinus Clemens also served as a praetorian prefect in 70 under the Emperor Vespasian.

Her name "Tertulla", is a nickname for the female cognomen Tertia.

Marriage

In 63 CE, Tertulla married Vespasian's first son, the future Emperor Titus. This marriage could have been arranged by the fathers of Tertulla and Titus, to promote Titus' political and military career, and to provide financial relief from the debt incurred by Vespasian's proconsulship. She may have born Titus his first child, Julia Flavia, though there is some disagreement over whether Julia Flavia was the daughter of Tertulla, or if Titus' second wife. The marriage did not last long, as Tertulla was either divorced or dead by 63, when Titus married for the second time to Marcia Furnilla.

References

Sources

Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars - Titus

References

Jones, Brian. (2002-09-11). "The Emperor Domitian". Routledge.
Gagarin, Michael. (2010). "The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Greece and Rome. - Vol. 1 - 7". Oxford University Press.
(2023-07-20). "The Flavians". Cambridge University Press.
W. Jones, Brian. (1993). "The Emperor Domitian". Taylor & Francis.

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