Annia Fundania Faustina was a noble Roman woman that lived in the 2nd century during the Roman Empire

Roman Empire

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Fundania Faustina was the daughter of the Roman Consul Marcus Annius Libo

Marcus Annius Libo

Marcus Annius Libo was a Roman who lived in the 2nd century. He was the son of Roman consul Marcus Annius Verus and Rupilia Faustina. He was consul in 128 and suffect consul in 161....

 and Fundania. Her brother was a younger Marcus Annius Libo who served as a Legatus

Legatus

A legatus was a general in the Roman army, equivalent to a modern general officer. Being of senatorial rank, his immediate superior was the dux, and he outranked all military tribunes...

 in Syria

Syria

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 in 162. Fundania Faustina’s maternal grandparents are unknown; however her paternal grandparents are the Roman consul Marcus Annius Verus

Marcus Annius Verus

Marcus Annius Verus was a Roman man who lived in the 1st and 2nd century. He was the son of an elder Marcus Annius Verus, who gained the rank of senator and praetor. His family originated from Uccibi near Corduba in Spain...

 and Rupilia

Rupilia

Rupilia Faustina was an influential Roman noble woman. She was the daughter of Salonina Matidia and suffect consul Lucius Scribonius Libo Rupilius Frugi Bonus. She possibly had another sister called Rupilia Annia....

 Faustina. She was born and raised in Rome

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Through her paternal grandmother, she was related to the ruling Nerva–Antonine dynasty of the Roman Empire. Her paternal aunt was Empress Faustina the Elder

Faustina the Elder

Annia Galeria Faustina, more familiarly referred to as Faustina I , was a Roman Empress and wife of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius.-Early life:...

 (wife of Emperor Antoninus Pius

Antoninus Pius

Antoninus Pius , also known as Antoninus, was Roman Emperor from 138 to 161. He was a member of the Nerva-Antonine dynasty and the Aurelii. He did not possess the sobriquet "Pius" until after his accession to the throne...

 and mother of Empress Faustina the Younger

Faustina the Younger

Annia Galeria Faustina Minor , Faustina Minor or Faustina the Younger was a daughter of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius and Roman Empress Faustina the Elder. She was a Roman Empress and wife to her maternal cousin Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius...

) and her paternal uncle was praetor

Praetor

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 Marcus Annius Verus

Marcus Annius Verus (praetor)

Marcus Annius Verus was a distinguished Roman politician who lived in the 2nd century, served as a praetor and was the biological father of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius....

 (father of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the paternal grandmother of Empress Lucilla

Lucilla

Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla or Lucilla was the second daughter and third child of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Roman Empress Faustina the Younger and an elder sister to future Roman Emperor Commodus....

 and Emperor Commodus

Commodus

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Fundania Faustina, married the Roman Politician Titus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius Pollio

Titus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius Pollio

Titus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius Pollio was a Roman Politician that lived in the 2nd century.Pollio was born into a family of Patrician rank. The name of his mother is unknown, however his father Titus Vitrasius Pollio, served as a Legatus in Lugdunum and became consul in 137 in the reign of...

. She bore him two children who were:

• Son, Titus Fundanius Vitrasius Pollio. Titus was executed in 182 on the orders of Commodus, because Titus was involved in a conspiracy against the Emperor.
• Daughter, Vitrasia Faustina
  Vitrasia Faustina
  Vitrasia Faustina was a noble Roman woman that lived in the 2nd century during the Roman Empire.Vitrasia was the daughter of Annia Fundania Faustina and the Roman politician Titus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius Pollio and her brother was Titus Fundanius Vitrasius Pollio...
  
  

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 Achaea

Achaea (Roman province)

Achaea, or Achaia, was a province of the Roman Empire, consisting of the Peloponnese, eastern Central Greece and parts of Thessaly. It bordered on the north by the provinces of Epirus vetus and Macedonia...

. In 192 before the death of 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