Salonia Matidia 4 July 68 23 December 119 was the daughter and only child of Ulpia Marciana and wealthy praetor Gaius Salonius Matidius Patruinus Her maternal uncle was the Roman emperor Trajan Trajan had no children and treated her like his daughter Her father died in 78 and Matidia went with her mother to live with Trajan and his wife Pompeia Plotina LifeBetween 81 and 82 Matidia married a suffect consul and former proconsul Lucius Vibius Sabinus Sabinus died in 83 or 84 Matidia bore Sabinus a daughter called Vibia Sabina who would marry the future Roman Emperor Hadrian Matidia was very fond of her second cousin Hadrian and allowed him to marry Vibia Sabina In 84 Matidia married for a second time to an otherwise unknown Roman aristocrat called Lucius Mindius Matidia bore Mindius a daughter called Mindia Matidia commonly known as Matidia Minor Mindius died in 85 Denarius showing Matidia Augusta as the goddess Pietas holding hands with her daughters Sabina and Matidia Minor Matidia later married Lucius Scribonius Libo Rupilius Frugi Bonus who was suffect consul in 88 Frugi had a daughter called Rupilia Faustina from an earlier marriage Faustina would go on to marry the Roman Senator Marcus Annius Verus their daughter became empress Faustina the Elder and their son Marcus Annius Verus s son became emperor Marcus Aurelius Matidia often traveled with her uncle and assisted him with decision making Like her mother Matidia was honored with monuments and inscriptions in her name throughout the Roman Empire On 29 August 112 she received the title of Augusta upon the death and divinization of Marciana Denarius depicting Matidia the reverse depicting an eagle with the legend CONSECRATIO commemorates her consecration as a diva When Trajan died in 117 Matidia and Plotina brought the emperor s ashes back to Rome In 119 Matidia died whereupon the Roman Emperor Hadrian delivered her funeral oration deified her and granted her a temple and altar in Rome itself She thus became the first divinized Roman woman to be dedicated a full scale temple of her own as opposed to one shared with her husband or a smaller shrine Nerva Antonine family treevteNerva Antonine family treeQ Marcius Barea SoranusQ Marcius Barea SuraAntonia FurnillaM Cocceius NervaSergia PlautillaP Aelius HadrianusTitus r 79 81 Marcia FurnillaMarciaTrajanus PaterNerva r 96 98 UlpiaAelius Hadrianus MarullinusFlaviaMarcianaC Salonius MatidiusTrajan r 98 117 PlotinaP Acilius AttianusP Aelius AferPaulina MajorLucius Mindius 2 Libo Rupilius Frugi 3 Salonia MatidiaL Vibius Sabinus 1 Paulina MinorL Julius Ursus ServianusMatidia MinorSabinaHadrian r 117 138 AntinousC Fuscus Salinator IJulia Serviana PaulinaM Annius VerusRupilia FaustinaBoionia ProcillaCn Arrius AntoninusL Ceionius CommodusAppia SeveraC Fuscus Salinator IIL Caesennius PaetusArria AntoninaArria FadillaT Aurelius FulvusL Caesennius AntoninusL CommodusPlautiaunknownC Avidius NigrinusM Annius VerusCalvisia Domitia LucillaFundaniaM Annius LiboFaustinaAntoninus Pius r 138 161 L Aelius CaesarAvidiaCornificiaMarcus Aurelius r 161 180 Faustina MinorC Avidius CassiusAurelia FadillaLucius Verus r 161 169 1 Ceionia FabiaPlautius QuintillusQ Servilius PudensCeionia PlautiaCornificia MinorM Petronius SuraCommodus r 177 192 FadillaM Annius Verus CaesarTi Claudius Pompeianus 2 LucillaM Plautius QuintillusJunius Licinius BalbusServilia CeioniaPetronius AntoninusL Aurelius Agaclytus 2 Aurelia SabinaL Antistius Burrus 1 Plautius QuintillusPlautia ServillaC Furius Sabinus TimesitheusAntonia GordianaJunius Licinius Balbus Furia Sabina TranquillinaGordian III r 238 244 1 1st spouse 2 2nd spouse 3 3rd spouse Reddish purple indicates emperor of the Nerva Antonine dynasty lighter purple indicates designated imperial heir of said dynasty who never reigned grey indicates unsuccessful imperial aspirants bluish purple indicates emperors of other dynasties dashed lines indicate adoption dotted lines indicate love affairs unmarried relationships Small Caps posthumously deified Augusti Augustae or other Notes Except where otherwise noted the notes below indicate that an individual s parentage is as shown in the above family tree Sister of Trajan s father Giacosa 1977 p 7 Giacosa 1977 p 8 Levick 2014 p 161 Husband of Ulpia Marciana Levick 2014 p 161 Giacosa 1977 p 7 DIR contributor Herbert W Benario 2000 Hadrian Giacosa 1977 p 9 Husband of Salonia Matidia Levick 2014 p 161 Smith 1870 Julius Servianus Smith 1870 Hadrian pp 319 322 Lover of Hadrian Lambert 1984 p 99 and passim deification Lamber 1984 pp 2 5 etc Husband of Rupilia Faustina Levick 2014 p 163 Levick 2014 p 163 It is uncertain whether Rupilia Faustina was Frugi s daughter by Salonia Matidia or another woman Levick 2014 p 162 Levick 2014 p 164 Wife of M Annius Verus Giacosa 1977 p 10 Wife of M Annius Libo Levick 2014 p 163 Giacosa 1977 p 10 The epitomator of Cassius Dio 72 22 gives the story that Faustina the Elder promised to marry Avidius Cassius This is also echoed in HA Marcus Aurelius 24 Husband of Ceionia Fabia Levick 2014 p 164 Levick 2014 p 117 References DIR contributors 2000 De Imperatoribus Romanis An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Rulers and Their Families Retrieved 2015 04 14 Giacosa Giorgio 1977 Women of the Caesars Their Lives and Portraits on Coins Translated by R Ross Holloway Milan Edizioni Arte e Moneta ISBN 0 8390 0193 2 Lambert Royston 1984 Beloved and God The Story of Hadrian and Antinous New York Viking ISBN 0 670 15708 2 Levick Barbara 2014 Faustina I and II Imperial Women of the Golden Age Oxford University Press ISBN 978 0 19 537941 9 Smith William ed 1870 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology ReferencesAE 1954 0062 Levick Barbara 2014 Faustina I and II Imperial Women of the Golden Age Oxford University Press p 161 ISBN 978 0 19 537941 9 CIL VI 02080 Rupilius Strachan stemma Settipani Christian 2000 Continuite gentilice et continuite familiale dans les familles senatoriales romaines a l epoque imperiale mythe et realite Prosopographica et genealogica in Italian Vol 2 illustrated ed Unit for Prosopographical Research Linacre College University of Oxford p 278 ISBN 9781900934022 Libo Frugi s wife is unknown but J Carcopino REA 51 1949 262 ff argued that she was Matidia This was supported by H G Pflaum HAC 1963 1964 106 f However Schumacher Priesterkollegien 195 points out that Libo Frugi s daughter Rupilia Faustina can hardly have been old enough in that case to be the mother of Marcus father The only way out would be to suppose that Matidia married Libo before her other two husbands and was divorced from him as he was still alive in 101 The theory becomes increasingly implausible Anthony Richard Birley Marcus Aurelius p 244 CIL XIV 00244 William Smith Matidia A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology London John Murray Samuel Ball Platner as completed and revised by Thomas Ashby A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome London Oxford University Press 1929 Ara Matidiae amp Templum Matidiae Retrieved from LacusCurtius on 20 December 2008 Levick Barbara 2014 Faustina I and II Imperial Women of the Golden Age Oxford University Press p 122 ISBN 978 0 19 537941 9 External linksWikimedia Commons has media related to Salonia Matidia, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library, article, read, download, free, free download, mp3, video, mp4, 3gp, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, picture, music, song, movie, book, game, games, mobile, phone, android, ios, apple, mobile phone, samsung, iphone, xiomi, xiaomi, redmi, honor, oppo, nokia, sonya, mi, pc, web, computer