Furia Sabinia Tranquillina (c. 225 – aft. 244 AD) was the
Empress of Rome and wife of Emperor
Gordian III. She was the young daughter of the
Praetorian Prefect
Timesitheus by an unknown wife.
In 241 AD her father was appointed the head of the Praetorian Guard by the Roman Emperor
Gordian III. In May that year, Tranquillina had married Gordian. She became a Roman Empress and received the honorific title of Augusta. Her marriage to Gordian was an admission by the young emperor of both Timesitheus' political indispensability and Tranquillina's suitability as an empress.
^The epitomator of Cassius Dio (
72.22) gives the story that Faustina the Elder promised to marry Avidius Cassius. This is also echoed in HA"Marcus Aurelius" 24.
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Italics indicates a consort to a junior co-emperor, underlining indicates a consort to an emperor variously regarded as either legitimate or a usurper, and bold incidates an empress regnant.