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Rupilia Faustina (about 87

Year 87 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar....
-before 138

138

Events...
) was a Roman woman. She was daughter to Salonina Matidia

Salonina Matidia

Salonina Matidia was a daughter and only child to Ulpia Marciana and wealthy praetor Gaius Salonius Matidius Patruinus. Her maternal uncle was Roman Emperor Trajan....
from her third marriage to Lucius Scribonius Libo Rupilio Frugi Bonus consul of 88

Year 88 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar....
, who died in 101

101

Events...
. Her father was a man of consular rank who descended from Roman Republican nobility.

Her mother was a niece to Roman Emperor

Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
Trajan

Trajan

Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus, commonly known as Trajan , was a Roman Emperors who reigned from 98 until his death in 117. Born Marcus Ulpius Traianus into a nonpatrician family in the Hispania Baetica province , Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor Domitian, serving as a general in the Roman army along the Limes G...
. Her elder half-sisters were Matidia Minor

Matidia Minor

Mindia Matidia or Matidia Minor or Matidia the Younger was related to several important ancient Roman Empire List of Roman Emperors....
and Roman Empress Vibia Sabina

Vibia Sabina

Vibia Sabina was a Roman Empress, wife and third cousin to Roman Emperor Hadrian. She was the daughter to Salonina Matidia, niece of Roman Emperor Trajan and Lucius Vibius Sabinus, a man of consular rank....
. The sisters lived and were raised as apart of the household of Trajan and his wife Pompeia Plotina

Pompeia Plotina

Pompeia Plotina Claudia Phoebe Piso or Pompeia Plotina was a Roman Empress and wife of Roman Emperor Trajan. She was renowned for her interest in philosophy, and her virtue, dignity and simplicity....
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Rupilia Faustina (about 87

Year 87 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar....
-before 138

138

Events...
) was a Roman woman. She was daughter to Salonina Matidia

Salonina Matidia

Year 88 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar....
, who died in 101

101

Events...
. Her father was a man of consular rank who descended from Roman Republican nobility.

Her mother was a niece to Roman Emperor

Roman Emperor

Trajan

Matidia Minor

Mindia Matidia or Matidia Minor or Matidia the Younger was related to several important ancient Roman Empire List of Roman Emperors....
and Roman Empress Vibia Sabina

Vibia Sabina

Pompeia Plotina

Hadrian

Publius Aelius Hadrianus , as emperor Imperator Caesar Divi Traiani filius Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, and Divus Hadrianus after his apotheosis, known as Hadrian in English language, was Roman Emperor of Roman Empire from AD 117 to 138, as well as a Stoicism and Epicureanism philosopher....
was her brother-in-law and third cousin. Not much is known on her.

Faustina married Marcus Annius Verus

Marcus Annius Verus

Marcus Annius Verus was a Ancient Rome man who lived in the 1st century and 2nd century. He was the son of an elder Annius Verus, who gained the rank of senator and praetor....
. Verus was a prefect in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
and served as consul three times. Their children were:

Annia Galeria Faustina or Faustina the Elder
Faustina the Elder

Annia Galeria Faustina, more familiarly referred to as Faustina the Elder , was a Roman Empress and wife of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius....
, a Roman Empress who married Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius
Antoninus Pius

Titus Aurelius Fulvus Boionius Arrius Antoninus , generally known in English as Antoninus Pius was Roman Emperors from 138 to 161. He was the fourth of the Five Good Emperors and a member of the Aurelii....
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Marcus Annius Libo
Marcus Annius Libo

Marcus Annius Libo or Annius Libo was a Roman who lived in the 2nd century. He was the son of Roman consul Marcus Annius Verus and Rupilia Faustina....
, a consul.
Marcus Annius Verus
Marcus Annius Verus (praetor)

Marcus Annius Verus was a distinguished Roman politician, a praetor, and the father of the emperor Marcus Aurelius.He was the son of Marcus Annius Verus and Rupilia Faustina....
, a praetor who married Domitia Lucilla
Domitia Lucilla

Domitia Lucilla, Lucilla or Domitia Calvilla was a noble Roman woman who lived in the 2nd century. She is famous as the mother of the future emperor Marcus Aurelius, and also as the patron of another future emperor, Didius Julianus....
and became father to future Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was Roman Emperor from 161 to his death in 180. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors", and is also considered one of the most important stoicism philosophy....
and his sister Annia Cornificia Faustina
Annia Cornificia Faustina

Annia Cornificia Faustina was the younger child and only daughter to praetor Marcus Annius Verus and Domitia Lucilla. Her elder brother would be future Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius....
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Sources

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Rodgers,N.,The History and Conquests of Ancient Rome,Hermes House,2005.