Domitilla the Elder

Flavia Domitilla the Elder ( Latin Flavia Domitilla Maior; † before 69) was the wife of the Roman Emperor Vespasian.

According to Suetonius, they gained Roman citizenship only in a process in which Flavius ​​Liberalis from Ferentium, the writer of a Quaestor, insured, to be her father. Vespasian married her around the year 38 Domitilla the Elder was the mother of the younger Domitilla and the future Emperor Titus and Domitian. She died before her husband became the imperial dignity. After her death, Vespasian lived with Antonia Caenis.