Annia Fundania Faustina (died 192) was a noble Roman woman who lived in the

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during the 2nd century AD. She was the paternal cousin of Roman Emperor

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and his sister

Annia Cornificia Faustina Annia Cornificia Faustina (122/123between 152 and 158) was the youngest child and only daughter of the praetor Marcus Annius Verus and Domitia Lucilla. The parents of Cornificia came from wealthy senatorial families who were of consular rank. H ...

Life

Fundania Faustina was the daughter of the Roman consul

Marcus Annius Libo Marcus Annius Libo was a Roman Senator active in the early second century AD. Life Libo came from the upper ranks of the Roman aristocracy. He was the son of Marcus Annius Verus, consul III in 126, and Rupilia Faustina. Annius Verus was Spanish o ...

and wife Fundania. Her brother was the younger

who served as governor of

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in 162. Fundania Faustina's maternal grandparents are inferred to be

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and his unknown wife; however her paternal grandparents are the Roman consul Marcus Annius Verus and Rupilia Faustina. She was born and raised in

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. Through her paternal grandmother, she was related to the ruling

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of the Roman Empire. Her paternal aunt was Empress

Faustina the Elder Annia Galeria Faustina the Elder, sometimes referred to as Faustina I or Faustina Major (born on February 16 around 100; died in October or November of 140), was a Roman empress and wife of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius. The emperor Marcus Au ...

(wife of Emperor

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and mother of Empress

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) and her paternal uncle was

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Marcus Annius Verus (father of Emperor

, the paternal grandmother of Empress

Lucilla Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla or Lucilla (7 March 148 or 150 – 182) was the second daughter of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Roman Empress Faustina the Younger. She was the wife of her father's co-ruler and adoptive brother Lucius Verus ...

and Emperor

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). Fundania Faustina, married the Roman Politician

Titus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius Pollio Titus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius Pollio (died before 180) was a Roman senator, who held several imperial appointments during the reign of Marcus Aurelius. He was suffect consul in an undetermined '' nundinium'' around 151; he was a consul ''ord ...

. She had two children with him who were: * Titus Fundanius Vitrasius Pollio; he was executed in 182 on the orders of Commodus on the charge of conspiracy against the emperor. *

Vitrasia Faustina Vitrasia Faustina (died 182 or 183) was a noble Roman woman who lived in the 2nd century during the Roman Empire. Life Vitrasia was the daughter of Annia Fundania Faustina and the Roman Senator Titus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius Pollio, consul II ...

Before 180, her husband had died and Fundania Faustina never remarried. During the reign of her unstable paternal cousin Commodus (180-192), she decided to withdraw from public life and chose to live in retirement in

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. Before he was assassinated in 192, Commodus ordered Fundania Faustina's death and she was later executed in that year.

Sources

* ''Septimius Severus: the African emperor'', by Anthony Richard Birley Edition: 2 – 1999 * ''From Tiberius to the Antonines: a history of the Roman Empire AD 14-192'', by Albino Garzetti, 1974 * ''Mutilation and transformation: damnatio memoriae and Roman imperial portraiture'' By Eric R. Varner 2004 {{DEFAULTSORT:Faustina, Annia Fundania 2nd-century Roman women People executed by the Roman Empire Executed ancient Roman women 2nd-century executions 192 deaths Year of birth unknown Annii