Domitia Longina

Domitia Longina ( 50–55 – 126–130s AD) was a Roman empress and wife to the Roman emperor Domitian. She was the youngest daughter of the general and consul Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo. Domitia divorced her first husband, Lucius Aelius Lamia Plautius Aelianus in order to marry Domitian in AD 71. The marriage produced only one son, whose early death is believed to have been the cause of a temporary rift between Domitia and her husband in 83. She became the empress upon Domitian's accession in 81, and remained so until his assassination in 96. She is believed to have died sometime between AD 126 and 130. Early life Born sometime between the years 50 and 55, Domitia Longina was the second daughter of Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo and Cassia Longina. Through her mother she was descended from Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and her paternal aunt was Milonia Caesonia, wife of Caligula. Her father, Corbulo, was one of Rome's most esteemed citizens, both in the Roman Senate and the army. In addition to serving as consul under Caligula, he conducted military campaigns in Germania and Parthia under Claudius and Nero, respectively. However, his family was connected to the failed Pisonian conspiracy against Nero in 65, consequently leading to Corbulo's disgrace and suicide. First marriage Little is known about the life of Domitia before her marriage to Domitian, but sometime before 70 she was married to Lucius Aelius Lamia Plautius Aelianus, a man of senatorial rank. She may have been the mother of Lucius Fundanius Lamia Aelianus as well as one or two daughters. It is also possible that Fundanius may have been Longina and Lamia's grandson through a daughter and her husband, a Lucius Fundanius, son of a Lucius Fundanius. Marriage to Domitian