Salonina Matidia

Salonina Matidia was the daughter of Ulpia Marciana and beloved niece of the Emperor Trajan. Trajan had no children and treated her like his daughter. In 112, she received the title of Augusta.

In 119, Matidia died, the Emperor Hadrian delivered her funeral oration. Matidia was very fond of her second cousin and allowed him to marry his daughter Vibia Sabina.

Matidia first married Lucius Vibius Sabinus, a man of consular rank. He died in 97. Their daughters were

Her second husband was Rupilius Libo Frugi, who died in 101. Their daughters were:

Through her daughters from her marriage, she became the mother-in-law to Emperor Antoninus Pius; grandmother to Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his wife and great, grandmother to Emperor Commodus.

See also: Salonina Matidia, 101, 112, 119, 97, Antoninus Pius, Commodus, Consul, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius