Flavia Titiana
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Flavia Titiana was a Roman empress, wife of emperor Helvius Pertinax, who ruled briefly in 193.
[edit] Life
Flavia Titiana was the daughter of a senator, Titus Flavius Sulpicianus. She married Helvius Pertinax, a rich self-made man who had made a successful military and civil career. Flavia Titiana bore two children, a boy called Publius Helvius Pertinax and an unknown daughter.
Pertinax was proclaimed emperor after the murder of Commodus on January 1, 193. While the new princeps was offering the customary sacrifice on the Capitoline Hill, the Roman Senate gave Flavia Titiana the honorary title of Augusta.
After the murder of Pertinax by the praetorians on March 28, 193 neither Flavia, nor her children were hurt.
The Historia Augusta claims that Flavia Titiana "carried on an amour quite openly with a man who sang to the lyre" but Pertinax was not concerned.[1]
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| Preceded by Bruttia Crispina |
Empress of Rome 193 |
Succeeded by Manlia Scantilla |
