Life
Flavia Titiana was the daughter of a Senator, Titus Flavius Claudius Sulpicianus, and sister of Titus Flavius Titianus, born ca 165, Consul suffectus ca 200 who married to Postumia Varia, born ca 175. Her maternal grandfather was Titus Flavius Titianus, born ca. 95, who was Praefectus of Aegyptus between 126 and 133 and was believed to be a third son of Titus Flavius Clemens and wife Flavia Domitilla.
She married Publius Helvius Pertinax, a rich self made man who had made a successful military and civil career. Flavia Titiana bore two children, a boy called Publius Helvius Pertinax and an unknown daughter.
Pertinax was proclaimed emperor after the murder of Commodus on January 1, 193. While the new princeps was offering the customary sacrifice on the Capitoline Hill, the Roman Senate gave Flavia Titiana the honorary title of Augusta.
After the murder of Pertinax by the praetorians on March 28, 193 neither Flavia, nor her children were hurt.
The Historia Augusta claims that Flavia Titiana "carried on an amour quite openly with a man who sang to the lyre" but Pertinax was not concerned.
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