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Flavia Titiana

Roman empress in 193


Summary

Roman empress in 193

FieldValue
nameFlavia Titiana
titleAugusta
imageFlavia Titiana.jpg
captionImaginary depiction of Flavia Titiana from Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum
successionRoman empress
reignThree months in 193
birth_date
death_date
spousePertinax
consortyes
issue
full nameFlavia Titiana Minor
regnal nameFlavia Titiana Augusta
fatherTitus Flavius Claudius Sulpicianus
motherFlavia Titiana Major

| cor-type = | reg-type = | issue-link = | issue-pipe = | issue-type = | house-type = Flavia Titiana was the wife of emperor Pertinax, who ruled briefly in 193 during the Year of the Five Emperors.

Life

Flavia Titiana was the daughter of senator Titus Flavius Claudius Sulpicianus, and sister of Titus Flavius Titianus (b. 165), consul suffectus c. 200. Her maternal grandfather was Titus Flavius Titianus, who was praefectus of Egypt from 126 to 133. Titiana married Publius Helvius Pertinax, a wealthy self-made man who had a successful military and civil career. She bore two children, a boy named Publius Helvius Pertinax and a daughter.

Pertinax was proclaimed emperor after the murder of Commodus on January 1, 193. While the new princeps was offering the customary sacrifice on the Capitoline Hill, the Roman Senate gave Flavia Titiana the honorary title of Augusta. After the murder of Pertinax by the Praetorian Guard on March 28, neither Flavia nor her children were hurt.

The highly unreliable Historia Augusta claims that Flavia Titiana "carried on an amour quite openly with a man who sang to the lyre", but Pertinax was not concerned.

References

References

  1. Elliott, Simon. (2020). "Pertinax: The Son of a Slave Who Became Roman Emperor". Greenhill Books.
  2. (1921). "Historia Augusta • Life of Pertinax". [[Loeb Classical Library]].
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