Gaius Salonius Matidius Patruinus (died 78) was a
Roman Senator who lived in the
Roman Empire during the 1st century during the reign of
Vespasian (r. 69–79).
Life
Patruinus came from a wealthy family of Vicetia (modern
Vicenza, northern
Italy). Around 63, he married a noble Roman woman called
Ulpia Marciana, the eldest sister of the future Emperor
Trajan. On 4 July 68, Marciana bore him a daughter named
Salonia Matidia.
He served as a
praetor and, through this position, became a senator. In 70/71, Patruinus possibly served as
governor of
Germania Superior. At the time of his death in 78, in
Rome, Patruinus was a priest and served as a member of the
Arval Brethren. After that, Marciana and Matidia went to live with Trajan and his wife
Pompeia Plotina.
Patruinus was the maternal grandfather to Matidia's daughters from her three marriages: Roman Empress
Vibia Sabina,
Hadrian's wife, and the noblewomen
Matidia Minor (or Mindia Matidia) and Rupilia.[a]
The Italian village of
Matigge (ancient Matidiae) is named after him and his second granddaughter
Matidia Minor.
^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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