Furia Sabinia Tranquillina (c. 225 – aft. 244 AD) was the

Empress of Rome This is a list of Roman and Byzantine empresses. A Roman empress was a woman who was the wife of a Roman emperor, the ruler of the Roman Empire. The Romans had no single term for the position: Latin and Greek titles such as '' augusta'' (Gree ...

and wife of Emperor

Gordian III Gordian III ( la, Marcus Antonius Gordianus; 20 January 225 – February 244) was Roman emperor from 238 to 244. At the age of 13, he became the youngest sole emperor up to that point (until Valentinian II in 375). Gordian was the son of Anto ...

. She was the young daughter of the Praetorian Prefect Timesitheus by an unknown wife. In 241 AD her father was appointed the head of the Praetorian Guard by the Roman Emperor

. 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.

Family tree

Sources

* ''Prosopographia Imperii Romani'' (PIR) ² F 587

References

External links

* http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/tranquillina/i.html * http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1034 * http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Tranquillina * https://www.livius.org/to-ts/tranquillina/tranquillina.html {{Authority control 3rd-century Roman empresses Year of birth uncertain 220s births 244 deaths Augustae Furii Gordian dynasty