Vibia Sabina
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Vibia Sabina (83–136/137) was a Roman Empress, wife and second cousin, once removed, to Roman Emperor Hadrian. She was the daughter to Salonina Matidia (niece of Roman Emperor Trajan), and suffect consul Lucius Vibius Sabinus. After her father’s death in 84, Sabina along with her half-sisters lived with their grandmother, mother and were raised in the household of Trajan, his wife Pompeia Plotina and her stepfather.
She married Hadrian in 100, at the Roman Empress Pompeia Plotina's request, for Hadrian to succeed her great uncle, in 117. Sabina's mother Matidia (Hadrian's second cousin) was also fond of Hadrian and allowed him to marry her daughter.
Sabina was strong and independent and her beliefs in marriage didn't sit well with the Emperor. Sabina had an affair with Suetonius, a historian (and Hadrian's secretary), in the year 119.[1] In 128, she was awarded the title of Augusta. Vibia Sabina died before her husband, some time in 136 or early 137.[2] Hadrian's stone elegy for his wife "depicts the apotheosis, or divine ascent of Sabina in accordance with her posthumous deification on the order of Hadrian."[3]
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Namesake [edit]
Vibia Aurelia Sabina (170-died before 217), daughter and youngest child of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Roman Empress Faustina the Younger was a great, great niece to Vibia Sabina. Her name was bestowed in honor of Sabina and her father.
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Nerva–Antonine family tree [edit]
- (1) = 1st spouse
- (2) = 2nd spouse (not shown)
- (3) = 3rd spouse
- SMALL CAPS = posthumously deified (Augusti, Augustae, or other)
- dotted lines indicate adoption or (in the case of Hadrian and Antinous) alleged lovers
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Marcia |
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TRAJANUS PATER |
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NERVA (r. 96–98) |
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Ulpia |
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G. Salonius Matidius Patruinus |
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MARCIANA |
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TRAJAN, adoptive son (r. 98–117) |
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PLOTINA |
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Aelius Afer |
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Libo Rupilius Frugi (3) |
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MATIDIA |
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L. Vibius Sabinus (1) |
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| Rupilia Annia |
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M. Annius Verus |
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Rupilia Faustina |
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SABINA |
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HADRIAN, adoptive son (r. 117–138) |
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| Domitia Lucilla |
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M. Annius Verus |
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M. Annius Libo |
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FAUSTINA |
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ANTONINUS PIUS, adoptive son (r. 138–161) |
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Aelius, adoptive son |
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| Cornificia |
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MARCUS AURELIUS, adoptive son (r. 161–180) |
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FAUSTINA Minor |
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Aurelia Fadilla |
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two infant sons |
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VERUS, adoptive son (r. 161–169) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fadilla |
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Cornificia |
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COMMODUS (r. 177–192) |
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nine other children |
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Lucilla |
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| Preceded by Pompeia Plotina |
Empress of Rome 117–136 |
Succeeded by Annia Galeria Faustina |
Notes [edit]
- ^ url=http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Hadrian/1*.html#11.3 Historia Augusta, 11.3
- ^ Opper, Thorsten. Hadrian: Empire and Conflict, Harvard University Press, 2008, p. 205. ISBN 0-674-03095-8
- ^ Annelise Freisenbruch, Caesars’ Wives: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Roman Empire (London and New York: Free Press, 2010), 170.
Further reading [edit]
- (French) Minaud, Gérard, Les vies de 12 femmes d’empereur romain - Devoirs, Intrigues & Voluptés , Paris, L’Harmattan, 2012, ch. 7, La vie de Sabine, femme d’Hadrien, p. 169-188.
External links [edit]
Media related to Vibia Sabina at Wikimedia Commons
