Valeria Messala

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Valeria Messala was the fourth wife of Roman Dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla. She was the daughter of Marcus Valerius Messalla Niger and sister to consul of 53 BC, Marcus Valerius Messalla Rufus.

According to Plutarch, she was a beautiful and distinguished woman, who recently divorced her husband. However Plutarch, doesn't state his name and why they divorced.

Messala and Sulla met at a gladiator show and they fell in love. They married shortly after.

When he retired from public life to a villa in the southern Italy, she accompanied him. She was pregnant at the time of his death in 78 BC, and had a daughter Postuma Cornelia Sulla, some months later.

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