| Faustina the Younger | |||||||||
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| Augusta | |||||||||
 Bust, c. 161 AD | |||||||||
| Roman empress | |||||||||
| Tenure | 7 March 161 – 175 (alongside Lucilla from 164–169) | ||||||||
| Born | c. 130 Rome, Italy | ||||||||
| Died | 175/76 (aged c. 45) Halala, Cappadocia | ||||||||
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| Issue Among others | Lucilla Faustina Fadilla Cornificia Faustina minor Commodus Annius Verus Sabina | ||||||||
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| Dynasty | Nerva–Antonine | ||||||||
| Father | Antoninus Pius | ||||||||
| Mother | Faustina the Elder | ||||||||
Annia Galeria Faustina the Younger (c. 130 AD,[1][4] – 175/176 AD)[5] was Roman empress from 161 to her death as the wife of emperor Marcus Aurelius, her maternal cousin. Faustina was the youngest child of emperor Antoninus Pius and empress Faustina the Elder. She was held in high esteem by soldiers and her husband as Augusta and Mater Castrorum ('Mother of the Camp') and was given divine honours after her death.
- ^ Levick (2014), p. 170, gives the year of her birth as 130–132.
- ^ Feriale Duranum 3.7.
- ^ Inscriptiones Italiae 13(02): 43.
- ^ The Feriale Duranum records the birthday of Diva Faustina as 20–22 September (between 10 and 12 days before the kalends of October).[2] However, this could be either Faustina II or her mother Faustina I. A Roman inscription records the birthday of Faustinae uxoris Antonini as 16 February (14 days before the kalends of March).[3] The text could refer to either Faustina II, who married Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, or Faustina I, who married Antoninus Pius.
- ^ Levick 2014, p. 172.