Paulina

Domitia Paulina ( Minor, ie, the younger, * 75, † 130 ) was the elder sister of the Roman Emperor Hadrian.

Life

Domitia Paulina Minor was the eldest child and the only daughter of her mother of the same name (to differentiate Domitia Paulina Maior called ) and Publius Aelius Hadrianus Afer the senator, who brought it to the praetorship. She came from a distinguished Roman, based in Spain senatorial family and was most likely in Italica born and raised ( at today's Seville ) in the province of Hispania Baetica. After the death of their parents (around 86 AD) took over the related with her father later Roman emperors Trajan and the officer Publius Acilius Attianus her and her brother Hadrian education. Before his accession to the throne (98 AD) Trajan married his ward Domitia Paulina with the Spanish- Roman senator and consul Lucius Julius Ursus three times Servianus. The marriage produced a daughter Iulia Serviana Paulina revealed by their parents before Trajan's death (117 AD) was married to the also coming from Spain Roman consuls Gnaeus Pedanius fuscus Salinator. The friend of Domitia Paulina Senator Pliny the Younger in a letter congratulated for this marriage.

Domitia Paulina died around 130 AD, but in any case after 125 AD Her brother and husband they were solemnly buried privately. Hadrian but she did not publicly honor after her death for a long time. But they found inscriptions in which it is celebrated as the sister of the emperor, so in Fundi, in Lyttos in Crete and Attaleia.