Annia Fundania Faustina (died 192 CE) was a noble Roman woman who lived in the Roman Empire during the 2nd century AD. She was the paternal cousin of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his sister Annia Cornificia Faustina .
6-459: Fundania Faustina was the daughter of the Roman consul Marcus Annius Libo and wife Fundania. Her brother was the younger Marcus Annius Libo who served as governor of Syria in 162. Fundania Faustina's maternal grandparents are inferred to be Lucius Fundanius Lamia Aelianus and his unknown wife; however her paternal grandparents are the Roman consul Marcus Annius Verus and Rupilia Faustina . She
12-576: Is known to have had three siblings, two sisters and one brother. His elder sister was the Empress Faustina the Elder (mother of the Empress Faustina the Younger ) and his younger sister (whose name is missing, but surmised to be Annia ) was the wife of Gaius Ummidius Quadratus Sertorius Severus , suffect consul in 118. His brother was Marcus Annius Verus , the father of Marcus Aurelius. He
18-651: The Roman Politician Titus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius Pollio . She had two children with him who were: 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 . Before he was assassinated in 192, Commodus ordered Fundania Faustina's death and she
24-493: Was consul in 128 as the colleague of Lucius Nonius Calpurnius Torquatus Asprenas . Libo was the paternal uncle of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius . Beyond his consulship, almost nothing is known of his senatorial career. During the reign of his brother-in-law, Antoninus Pius , he was one of seven witnesses to a Senatus consultum issued to the city of Cyzicus in 138, which sought approval for establishing
30-581: Was born and raised in Rome . 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 (wife of Emperor Antoninus Pius and mother of Empress Faustina the Younger ) and her paternal uncle was praetor Marcus Annius Verus (father of Emperor Marcus Aurelius , the paternal grandmother of Empress Lucilla and Emperor Commodus ). Fundania Faustina, married
36-468: Was later executed in that year. Marcus Annius Libo Marcus Annius Libo was a Roman Senator active in the early second century AD. Libo came from the upper ranks of the Roman aristocracy. He was the son of Marcus Annius Verus , consul III in 126, and Rupilia Faustina . Annius Verus was Spanish of Roman descent. Rupilia was the daughter of Lucius Scribonius Libo Rupilius Frugi Bonus and Vitellia (daughter of emperor Vitellius ). Libo
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