Lucius Mindius is an unattested Roman Aristocrat who lived in the

Roman Empire The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post-Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediterr ...

in the second half of the 1st century. Mindius was a

Roman Senator The Roman Senate ( la, Senātus Rōmānus) was a governing and advisory assembly in ancient Rome. It was one of the most enduring institutions in Roman history, being established in the first days of the city of Rome (traditionally founded in ...

of Consular rank. Little is known on his origins. In 84, Mindius married

Salonia Matidia 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 ...

, the niece of future Roman Emperor

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, becoming her second husband. Matidia was previously widowed from her first marriage to suffect consul

Lucius Vibius Sabinus Lucius Vibius Sabinus was a Roman Senator who lived in the 1st century. His daughter Vibia Sabina married the emperor Hadrian. Biography Little is known about his family, but Sabinus came from a family of consular rank. He may have been related ...

, who left Matidia a daughter

Vibia Sabina Vibia Sabina (13 August 83–136/137) was a Roman Empress, wife and second cousin once removed to the Roman Emperor Hadrian. She was the daughter of Matidia (niece of Roman Emperor Trajan) and suffect consul Lucius Vibius Sabinus. Early life ...

. In 85, Matidia bore Mindius a daughter called Mindia Matidia, commonly known as

Matidia Minor Mindia Matidia or Vibia Matidia or Matidia Minor (''Minor'' Latin for ''the younger'', 85 – after 161) was a Roman imperial woman in the early second century AD. She was related to several ancient Roman Emperors, as a great-niece to Trajan and ...

or Matidia the Younger. Like Matidia's first marriage, Matidia's marriage to Lucius Mindius was short-lived. Shortly after the birth of Mindia Matidia, Lucius Mindius had died. In 86 Matidia married the consul Lucius Scribonius Libo Rupilius Frugi Bonus.

Sources

* http://www.roman-emperors.org/goodemp2.htm * Julian Bennett, ''Trajan: Optimus Princeps, a Life and Times'', Illustrated edition (Routledge, 1997) , {{DEFAULTSORT:Mindius, Lucius 85 deaths 1st-century Romans Nerva–Antonine dynasty Senators of the Roman Empire Romans from unknown gentes 1st-century births Year of birth unknown