Julia Maesa (7 May before 160 AD – c. 224 AD) was a member of the Severan dynasty of the Roman Empire who was the grandmother of emperors Elagabalus and...

Bassianus, and sister to Julia Maesa. Through Maesa and her husband Julius Avitus, Domna had two nieces: Julia Soaemias and Julia Mamaea, the respective...

killed in 235 by rebel soldiers alongside her son. Julia Avita Mamaea was the second daughter of Julia Maesa, a powerful Roman woman of Syrian origin, and...

advisors, initially with the support and accompaniment of her mother Julia Maesa. She and her mother guided the young emperor until growing unrest and...

principate at 14 years of age in an army revolt instigated by his grandmother Julia Maesa against Caracalla's short-lived successor, Macrinus. He only posthumously...

fiscal reforms generated unrest in the Roman military. Caracalla's aunt Julia Maesa took advantage of the unrest and instigated a rebellion to have her fourteen-year-old...

respectively of Elagabalus and Severus Alexander, and their own mother, Julia Maesa, were all powerful augustae and instrumental in securing their sons'...

Faustina the Younger Julia Domna (160–217), empress and wife of Emperor Septimius Severus Julia Maesa (c. 165–c. 224), Domna's sister Julia Soaemias (180–222)...

river. Alexander and his cousin were both grandsons of Julia Maesa, who was the sister of empress Julia Domna and had arranged for Elagabalus's acclamation...

Hierocles to be declared caesar, against the opposition of his grandmother, Julia Maesa. Allegedly, Elagabalus' partiality towards Hierocles, coupled with his...

daughter Julia Maesa was married to a Syrian noble Gaius Julius Avitus Alexianus and they had two daughters: Julia Soaemias Bassiana and Julia Avita Mamaea...

the Syrian Roman noblewoman Julia Soaemias Bassiana who was the first daughter of the powerful Syrian nobles Julia Maesa and Gaius Julius Avitus Alexianus...

grandmother and mother (Julia Soaemias). Seeing that her grandson's outrageous behaviour could mean the loss of power, Julia Maesa persuaded Elagabalus to...

grandmother, Julia Maesa 203/204 – 13 March 222 (aged 18) Murdered by the Praetorian Guard alongside his mother, probably at the instigation of Julia Maesa Severus...

revoked shortly afterwards, however. This was possibly on the urging of Julia Maesa, the grandmother who had engineered Elagabalus' rise to the imperial...

praetorian prefect between 228 and 235. In early 219, Julia Maesa, eldest sister of dowager empress Julia Domna, arranged for Cornelia Paula to marry her grandson...

Central Africa Julia Maesa (died c. 224 AD), a Roman historical figure Maesa Stadium, a stadium located in Tondano, Indonesia Djenar Maesa Ayu (born 1973)...

expenditures only stoked discontent within the military. Caracalla's aunt, Julia Maesa, his mother's sister, took advantage of the discontent of the soldiers...

priest to the local cult of the sun god Elagabal. Domna's older sister, Julia Maesa, would become the grandmother of the future emperors Elagabalus and Alexander...

unnamed woman by whom was the father of Julia Maesa and her younger sister, the Roman Empress Julia Domna Julia Domna, second wife of Roman emperor Lucius...

Severus Julia Maesa - sister of Julia Domna Julia Soaemias Bassiana - daughter of Julia Maesa Julia Avita Mamaea - younger daughter of Julia Maesa Flavius...

year. Geta was the younger son of Septimius Severus by his second wife Julia Domna. He was born on 7 March in either Rome or Mediolanum, at a time when...

Syrian noblewoman Julia Avita Mamaea, as her second husband. Mamaea was the second daughter of the powerful Roman Syrian nobles Julia Maesa and Julius Avitus...

era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. May 16 – Julia Maesa, an aunt of the assassinated Emperor Caracalla, is banished to her home...

father of empress Julia Domna (wife of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus and mother of emperor Caracalla) as well as Julia Maesa (maternal grandmother...

Astarte riding in a chariot with four branches protruding from roof, on the reverse of a Julia Maesa coin from Sidon...

Severan dynasty, the elder son of Emperor Septimius Severus and Empress Julia Domna. Severus proclaimed Caracalla co-ruler in 198, doing the same with...

The younger sister of Maesa was Septimius Severus' empress Julia Domna, who was the mother of the emperors Caracalla and Geta. Maesa bore two distinguished...

role in the early reign of Elagabalus. In 218, during Macrinus' reign, Julia Maesa went to Raphana, Syria, where the legion was based under the command...

was left to the Roman Empress Julia Domna, as he was the paternal great-uncle to Domna and her elder sister Julia Maesa. Agrippa is not to be confused...