Pompeia Plotina

Pompeia Plotina ( * before 70; † after January 1 123 ) was the wife of the Roman Emperor Trajan.

Plotina came from Nemausus, now Nîmes in southern France, where Hadrian a basilica was later built for them. She was the daughter of an otherwise unknown Lucius Pompeius. Your life circumstances before the wedding with Trajan are not fully known. The two are likely to have married before 86, from 112 coins were minted with Plotinas image. You probably had some influence on the decisions of her husband and was the one at the imperial court, which strongly campaigned as Trajan's successor Hadrian. Hadrian's adoption by the emperor, which was needed to legitimize him as his successor, was disapproved by a part of the Senate.

The historian Cassius Dio provides the following sequence after the death of Trajan in the Asia Minor city of Selinus: Plotina concealing the death of her first husband in the period from 8 to 11 August 117 you sent a courier with dated August 9, adoption certificate to the Senate in Rome. The text she had written by hand, because her husband was allegedly due to illness write incapable. It was only on August 11, she shared with the death of her husband. Hadrian was accepted as the new emperor, the ashes of her late husband convicted Plotina to Rome. She herself died five years later.