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Lollia Paulina


Lollia Paulina, also known as Lollia Paullina (15-49) was a Roman Empress for six months in 38 as the third wife and consort of the Roman emperor Caligula. Outside of her term as a Roman Empress, she was a noble Roman woman who lived in the Roman Empire of the 1st century.

Paulina was a member of the plebeian gens Lollia. Paulina was the second daughter of the suffect consul Marcus Lollius from the noble woman Volusia Saturnina, while her eldest sister was Lollia Saturnina.

Her father, Marcus Lollius was the son born to the Roman Politician and Military Officer Marcus Lollius from his wife Valeria. Valeria was one of the daughters of the literary patron, consul Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus and a sister to the Roman Senators Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus and Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus. Her possible paternal uncle may have been Publius Lollius Maximus or at least a close relation to his paternal grandfather. Publius Lollius Maximus was a soldier who served under the first Roman emperor Augustus; later becoming a friend of the Poet Horace; who became a possible poet, historian and must have been offered a post in the Retinue of the future Roman emperor Tiberius in about 20 BC. Paulina was the namesake of her father; paternal grandfather and her paternal ancestors.


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