Legacy
Plancus is one of the very few important Roman historical figures whose tomb has survived and is identifiable, although his body has long since vanished. The Mausoleum of Plancus, a massive cylinder tomb now much restored (and incongruously consecrated to the Virgin Mary in the late 19th century), is in Gaeta, on a hill overlooking the sea: it houses a small permanent exhibit in honor of him.
By his wife, whose name is unknown, Plancus had a son and a daughter: Lucius Munatius Plancus (ca 45 BC - aft. 14), Consul in 13 and Legate in 14, who married Aemilia Paulla, daughter of Aemilius Lepidus Paullus and wife Cornelia Lentula; and Munatia Plancina (ca 35 BC - aft. 20), wife of Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso.
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