Augusta (honorific)
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Augusta was the feminine form of the title Augustus. It was usually given to the wives or relatives of the Roman Emperors. In the 3rd century, Augustae could also receive the titles of Mater castrorum and Mater patriae.
List of Augustae
- 14 - Livia, wife of Augustus.
- 41 - Antonia Minor, mother of Claudius.
- 50 - Agrippina the Younger, wife of Claudius.
- 64 - Poppaea Sabina and Claudia, wife and daughter of Nero.
- before 80 - Flavia Domitilla, wife of Vespasian.
- 105 - Pompeia Plotina and Ulpia Marciana, wife and sister of Trajan.
- 112 - Salonina Matidia, niece of Trajan.
- 128 - Vibia Sabina, wife of Hadrian.
- 138 - Faustina the Elder, wife of Antoninus Pius.
- 146 - Faustina the Younger, daughter of Antoninus Pius, wife of Marcus Aurelius, mother of Commodus.
- 164 - Lucilla, daughter of Marcus Aurelius and wife of Lucius Verus.
- 177 - Bruttia Crispina, wife of Commodus.
- 193 - Manlia Scantilla and Didia Clara, wife and daughter of Didius Julianus.
- 210s - Fulvia Plautilla, wife of Caracalla
- 220 - Aquilia Severa, second and fourth wife of Elagabalus.
- 220s - Julia Avita Mamaea and Sallustia Orbiana, mother and wife of Alexander Severus.
- 238 - Sabina Tranquillina, wife of Gordian III.
- 240s - Otacilia Severa, wife of Philip the Arab.
- 240 - Herennia Etruscilla, wife of Trajan Decius, mother of Herennius Etruscus and Hostilian.
- 250s - Mariniana, wife of Valerian.
- c. 250 - Cornelia Salonina, wife of Gallienus.
- 253 - Cornelia Supra, wife of Aemilianus.
- 260 - Sulpicia Dryantilla, wife of Regalianus.
- 274 - Ulpia Severina, wife of Aurelian, possibily the only Augusta on her own right.
- 283 - Magnia Urbica, wife of Carinus.
- 308 - Galeria Valeria, daughter of Diocletian and wife of Galerius.
- after 312 - Helena of Constantinople and Constantina, mother and daughter of Constantine I.
- before 385 - Aelia Flaccilla, wife of Theodosius I.
- ca 416? - Galla Placidia, daughter of Theodosius I, wife of Constantius III, mother of Valentinian III.
- 439 - Licinia Eudoxia, wife of Valentinian III
- c. 440 - Justa Grata Honoria, sister of Valentinian III.
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