Valeria (wife of Sulla)

Valeria was the fifth wife of the Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix. She was the daughter of Valerius Messala and Marcus Valerius Messala sister of Rufus, consul BC was 53.

According to Plutarch, it was a remarkably beautiful woman divorced from her first husband. However, Plutarch mentions neither name nor reason.

Valeria and Sulla met during gladiatorial games in Rome and married shortly thereafter. When Sulla died in 78 BC, she was pregnant and gave birth after a few months Cornelia Postuma.

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• Plutarch Sulla. German translation: Great Greeks and Romans. Translated by Konrat Ziegler. Volume 3 dtv, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-423-02070-9. Are the relevant points 35 Valeria; 37 relevant.

• Spouse of a famous person
• Roman
• Born on the 2nd or 1st century BC
• Died in the 1st century BC
• Woman