Vespasia Polla

Vespasia Polla was the mother of the Roman emperor Vespasian and Titus and Domitian grandmother of his successors.

Vespasia came from a knightly family of Nursia. Her father Vespasius Pollio was camp prefect, her brother reached the praetorship. The ancestors of their family came from Vespasiae at Spoletum. Vespasia married Titus Flavius ​​Sabinus tax farmers, with whom she had three children, a daughter who still died in infancy, and two sons, and Sabinus Vespasian. After the death of her husband she remained unmarried.

Her son Sabinus was taken as the first member of his family in the Senate and was 62-68 city prefect of Rome. Vespasian followed in his footsteps and eventually became 69 Roman Emperor. His ambition is to be woken by his mother Vespasia sarcastically as " lackeys of his brother " called him.

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