Tranquillina
Furia Sabinia Tranquillina | |||||||||
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Augusta | |||||||||
![]() Marble of Furia Sabinia Tranquillina at Museo Chiaramonti | |||||||||
Empress of the Roman Empire | |||||||||
Tenure | 241–244 | ||||||||
Born | c. 225 | ||||||||
Died | aft. 244 | ||||||||
Spouse | Gordian III | ||||||||
Issue | Furia | ||||||||
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Father | Gaius Furius Sabinius Aquila Timesitheus |
Furia Sabinia Tranquillina (c. 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.
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previous Maximinus Thrax Roman Emperor 235–238 | Pupienus Roman Emperor 238 | ![]() Gordian I Roman Emperor 238 ∞ (?) Fabia Orestilla | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Balbinus Roman Emperor 238 | ![]() Gordian II co-emperor 238 | Antonia Gordiana | (doubted) Junius Licinius Balbus consul suffectus | Gaius Furius Sabinius Aquila Timesitheus praetorian prefect | next Philip the Arab Roman Emperor 244–249 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() Gordian III Roman Emperor 238 | Furia Sabinia Tranquillina | Philip II Roman Emperor co-emperor 247–249 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sources[]
- Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR) ² F 587
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Categories:
- Roman empresses
- 3rd-century Romans
- 3rd-century Roman women
- 220s births
- 244 deaths
- Augustae
- Furii
- Gordian dynasty