Flavia Titiana was a Roman empress, wife of emperor Pertinax, who ruled briefly in 193.
Flavia Titiana was the daughter of a Senator, Titus Flavius Claudius Sulpicianus, Consul suffectus in 170, FA in 186, Proconsul of Asia and Praefectus urbi Romae ca. 200, and wife Flavia Titiana, and sister of Titus Flavius Titianus, born ca 165, Consul suffectus ca 200 and married to Postumia Varia, born ca 175, by whom he had issue. Her maternal grandfather was Titus Flavius Titianus, born ca. 95, who was Praefectus of Aegyptus between 126 and 133 and was believed to be a third son of Titus Flavius Clemens and wife Flavia Domitilla.
She married Publius 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 |