Empress consorts of the Roman Empire
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Empress consorts of the Roman Empire
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Julio-Claudian dynasty (27 BC–68 AD)
Picture | Name English, Latin, Greek | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Empress | Ceased to be Empress | Death | Spouse |
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100px | Livia Drusilla (LIVIA•DRVSILLA) | Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus (Claudian) | 30 January, 58 BC | 17 January. 38 BC | 16 January 27 BC | 19 August, AD 14 | AD 29 | Augustus |
100px | Livia Orestilla | ? | ? | AD 37 or AD 38 | few days after marriage | ? | Caligula | |
100px | Lollia Paulina | Marcus Lollius Paulinus the Younger | ? | AD 38 | 6 months later | AD 49 | ||
100px | Milonia Caesonia | ? | AD 6 | late AD 39 or early AD 40 | 24 January, AD 41 | Hours after husband's death | ||
100px | Valeria Messalina | Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus | c. 17/20 | 37 or 38 | 24 January 41 AD | AD 48, for conspiring against her husband | Claudius | |
100px | Agrippina the Younger (IVLIA•AGRIPPINA) (η Ιουλία Αγριππίνη) | Germanicus (Claudian) | 6 November AD 15 | New Year’s Day in AD 49 | 13 October AD 54 | March AD 59, possibly because of her son, the Emperor Nero's affairs with Poppaea Sabina | ||
100px | Claudia Octavia (CLAVDIA•OCTAVIA) | Claudius (Claudian) | Late AD 39 or early AD 40 | 9 June AD 53 | 13 October 54 | 1 January 61 | 9 June AD 62 | Nero |
100px | Poppaea Sabina | Titus Ollius | AD 30 | AD 62 | AD 65 | |||
100px | Statilia Messalina | ? | ca. AD 35 | AD 66 | 9 June AD 68 | after 68 | ||
Picture | Name English, Latin, Greek | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Empress | Ceased to be Empress | Death | Spouse |
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Year of the Four Emperors & Flavian dynasty (68–96)
Picture | Name English, Latin, Greek | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Empress | Ceased to be Empress | Death | Spouse |
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100px | Galeria Fundana | Galerius (b. ca 15), a Praetor | c. 40 | c. 50 | March 69 | December 69 | after 69 | Vitellius |
100px | Domitia Longina | Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo | c. 53 | c. 70 | 14 September 81 | 18 September 96 | c. 130 | Domitian |
Picture | Name English, Latin, Greek | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Empress | Ceased to be Empress | Death | Spouse |
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Nervan-Antonian dynasty (96–192)
Picture | Name English, Latin, Greek | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Empress | Ceased to be Empress | Death | Spouse |
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100px | Pompeia Plotina | ? | ? | ? | 28 January 98 | 7 August 117 | 121/122 | Trajan |
100px | Vibia Sabina | Lucius Vibius Sabinus | c. 80 | 100 | 10 August 117 | 136 or 137 | Hadrian | |
100px | Annia Galeria Faustina Major | Marcus Annius Verus | September 21 about 100 | 110-115 | 11 July 138 | 141 | Antoninus Pius | |
100px | Annia Galeria Faustina Minor | Antoninus Pius (Antonian) | 16 February between 125 and 130 | 13 May 145 | 8 March 161 as co-empress consort March 169 as sole-empress consort | 175 | Marcus Aurelius | |
100px | Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla | Marcus Aurelius (Antonian) | 7 March 148 or 150 | 164 as co-empress consort | March 169 | 182 | Lucius Verus | |
100px | Bruttia Crispina | Gaius Bruttius Praesens | 164 | July of 178 | July of 178 as co-empress consort 18 March 180 as sole empress | 182 | 182 or 187 | Commodus |
Picture | Name English, Latin, Greek | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Empress | Ceased to be Empress | Death | Spouse |
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Year of the Five Emperors & Severan dynasty (193–235)
Picture | Name English, Latin, Greek | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Empress | Ceased to be Empress | Death | Spouse |
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100px | Flavia Titiana | Titus Flavius Sulpicianus | ? | ? | 1 January 193 AD | 28 March 193 | after 193 | Pertinax |
100px | Manlia Scantilla | (gens Manlia) | ? | before 153 | 28 March 193 | 1 June 193 | ? | Didius Julianus |
100px | Julia Domna | Arab family | 170 | late 180s | 14 April 193 as co-empress consort February 197 as sole empress April 202 as senior empress-consort | 4 February 211 | 217 | Septimius Severus |
100px | Publia Fulvia Plautilla | Gaius Fulvius Plautianus (Fulvius) | 185/around 188/189 | 13 May 145 | April 202 as co/junior-empress consort | 22 January 205 | early 212 | Caracalla |
100px | Nonia Celsa | ? | ? | ? | 8 April 217 | June 218 | ? | Macrinus |
100px | Julia Cornelia Paula | Julius Cornelius Paulus (Cornelius) | ? | 219 | early 220 | ? | Elagabalus | |
100px | Julia Aquilia Severa | Quintus Aquilius | ? | 220 | 221 | ? | ||
100px | Annia Aurelia Faustina | Tiberius Claudius Severus Proculus | ? | July 221 | later in 221 | ? | ||
100px | Julia Aquilia Severa | Quintus Aquilius | ? | 221 | 222 | ? | ||
100px | Seia Herennia Sallustia Barbia Orbiana Augusta | Seius Sallustius | ? | 225/226 | 227 | ? | Alexander Severus | |
Picture | Name English, Latin, Greek | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Empress | Ceased to be Empress | Death | Spouse |
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Crisis of the Third Century (235–284)
Picture | Name English, Latin, Greek | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Empress | Ceased to be Empress | Death | Spouse |
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100px | Caecilia Paulina | ? | ? | ? | 20 March 235 | 235/236 | Maximinus Thrax | |
100px | Furia Sabinia Tranquillina | Timesitheus | c. 225 | May 241 | 11 February 244 | aft. 244 | Gordian III | |
100px | Marcia Otacilia Severa | Otacilius Severus or Severianus (Otacilius) | ? | 234 | February 244 | September/ October 249 | ? | Julius Philippus 'Arabs' |
100px | Annia Cupressenia Herennia Etruscilla | Unknown Etrurian senatorial family | September 249 | before 230 | September/October 249 | June 251 | June 251 after husband | Decius |
100px | Afinia Gemina Baebiana | ? | ? | ? | June 251<ref>never titled</ref> | August 253 | ? | Trebonianus Gallus |
100px | Gaia Cornelia Supera | ? | ? | ? | August 253 | October 253 | ? | Aemilianus |
100px | Julia Cornelia Salonina | ? | ? | ?243 | October 253 | September 268 | Gallienus | |
100px | Ulpia Severina | Ulpius Crinitus? | ? | ? | September 270 | September or October 275 | ? | Aurelian |
100px | Magnia Urbica | ? | ? | ? | 282 as Caesarissa in the West Late July/early August 283 as sole-empress consort 20 November 284 in conflict with Empress Prisca | 285 | ? | Carinus |
Picture | Name English, Latin, Greek | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Empress | Ceased to be Empress | Death | Spouse |
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Tetrarchy and Constantinian dynasty (284-364)
Picture | Name English, Latin, Greek | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Empress | Ceased to be Empress | Death | Spouse |
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100px | Prisca | ? | ? | ? | 20 November 284 in conflict with Magnia Urbica 285 as sole-empress consort 1 April 286 as co-empress consort in the East | 1 May 305 | 315 | Diocletian |
100px | Eutropia | Syrian | ? | around 283 | 21 July/25 July 285 as Caesarissa 1 April 286 as co-empress consort in the West Late 306 husband declared himself Augustus | 1 May 305 July 310 | after 325 | Maximian |
100px | Flavia Maximiana Theodora | Flavius Afranius Hannibalianus | ? | 293 | 293 as Caesarissa 1 May 305 as empress consort in the West | 25 July 306 | ? | Constantius I |
100px | Galeria Valeria | Diocletian | ? | 293 | 1 March/21 May 293 as Caesarissa 1 May 305 as empress consort in the East | 5 May 311 | 315 | Galerius |
100px | Valeria Maximilla | Galerius | ? | around 293 | 28 October 306 empress consort in the West | 28 October 312 | ? | Maxentius |
100px | Minervina | ? | ? | ?<ref name="spouse status">her status as a concumbine or wife is unknown</ref> | 25 July 306 as Caesarissa | before 307 | ? | Constantine I |
100px | Fausta Flavia Maxima | Maximianus | 289 | 307 | 307 as Caesarissa in the West 309 husband proclaimed to be emperor April 310 accepted in the East 29 October 312 undisputed empress-consort in the West, senior-empress-consort in the empire 19 September 324 empress-consort of united empire | 326 | ||
100px | Flavia Julia Constantia | Constantine I (Constantinian) | after 293 | 313 | 313 as empress-consort in the East | 324 | c. 330 | Licinius |
100px | Unnamed<ref>Mentioned in "Letter To The Senate And People of Athens" by Julian the Apostate</ref> | Julius Constantius (Constantinian) | ? | 335 or 336 | 335 or 336 as Caesarissa 22 May 337 as co-empress consort 350 as sole-empress consort in empire | 353/4 | ? | Constantius II |
100px | Flavia Aurelia Eusebia | Flavius Eusebius the Macedonian Consul, | ? | 353 as sole-empress consort in empire | 360 | |||
100px | Faustina | ? | ? | Winter of 360 as sole-empress consort in empire | 3 November 361 | after 366 | ||
100px | Helena Constantia | Constantine I (Constantinian) | November 355 as Caesarissa February 360 as empress consort<ref>not known if she live to see this</ref> | 360? | Julian | |||
100px | Charito | Lucillianus | ? | ? | 27 June 363 | 17 February 364 | after 380 | Jovian |
Picture | Name English, Latin, Greek | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Empress | Ceased to be Empress | Death | Spouse |
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Theodosian dynasty (379–395)
Picture | Name English, Latin, Greek | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Empress | Ceased to be Empress | Death | Spouse |
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100px | Aelia Flavia Flaccilla | ? | 375-376 | August 378 as Roman empress consort in the East | 385 | Theodosius I | ||
100px | Flavia Galla | Valentinian I (Valentinian) | 370-375 | 387 as Roman empress consort in the East May 15 392 as sole-Roman empress consort | 17 November 375 | 394 | ||
Picture | Name English, Latin, Greek | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Empress | Ceased to be Empress | Death | Spouse |
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