Tranquillina

Furia Sabinia Tranquillina
Sabinia Tranquillina Augusta[1] Museo Chiaramonti, ca. 241
Born	c. 225
Died	aft. 244
Spouse(s)	Gordian III
Children	Furia

Furia Sabinia Tranquillina (ca. 225 – aft. 244) was the Empress of Rome and wife of Emperor Gordian III. She was the young daughter of the Praetorian Prefect Timesitheus by an unknown wife.

In 241 her father was appointed the head of the Praetorian Guard by the Roman Emperor Gordian III. In May that year, Tranquillina had married Gordian. She became a Roman Empress and received the honorific title of Augusta. Her marriage to Gordian was an admission by the young emperor of both Timesitheus' political indispensability and Tranquillina’s suitability as an empress.

Nerva–Antonine family tree

• (1) = 1st spouse
• (2) = 2nd spouse (not shown)
• (3) = 3rd spouse
• Darker purple indicates Emperor of the Nerva-Antonine dynasty; lighter purple indicates designated imperial heir of said dynasty who never reigned
• dashed lines indicate adoption; dotted lines indicate love affairs/unmarried relationships
• small caps = posthumously deified (Augusti, Augustae, or other)

Sources

• Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR) ² T 587

External links

• http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1034
• http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Tranquillina
• http://www.livius.org/to-ts/tranquillina/tranquillina.html

References

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