Lucilla

Lucilla
Marble statue of Lucilla depicted as Ceres, 150–200 AD (Bardo National Museum, Tunisia)
Empress consort of the Roman Empire
Tenure	164 – 169 (alongside Faustina the Younger)
Born	March 7, between 148 and 150 Rome, Roman Empire
Died	182 (aged 32–34) Capri, Roman Empire
Spouse	(1) Lucius Verus (2) Claudius Pompeianus
Issue	Aurelia Lucilla, Lucilla Plautia, Lucius Verus, Pompeianus
House	Nerva–Antonine Dynasty
Father	Marcus Aurelius
Mother	Faustina the Younger

Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla or Lucilla (March 7, 148 or 150–182) was the second daughter and third child of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Roman Empress Faustina the Younger and an elder sister to future Roman Emperor Commodus. Commodus ordered Lucilla's execution after a failed assassination and coup attempt when she was about 33 years old.

Born and raised in Rome into an influential political family, Lucilla was a younger twin with her elder brother Gemellus Lucillae, who died around 150. Lucilla’s maternal grandparents were Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius and Roman Empress Faustina the Elder and her paternal grandparents were Domitia Lucilla and praetor Marcus Annius Verus.

In 161, when she was between 11 and 13 years old, Lucilla's father arranged a marriage for her with his co-ruler Lucius Verus. Verus, 18 years her senior, became her husband three years later in Ephesus in 164. At this marriage she received her title of Augusta and became a Roman Empress. At the same time, Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus were fighting a Parthian war in Syria.

Lucilla and Lucius Verus had three children:

Aurelia and the boy died young.

Lucilla was an influential and respectable woman and she enjoyed her status. She spent much time in Rome, while Verus was away from Rome much of the time, fulfilling his duties as a co-ruler. Lucius Verus died around 168/169 while returning from the war theater in the Danube region, and as a result, Lucilla lost her status as Empress.