Flavia Titiana was the daughter of
senator Titus Flavius Claudius Sulpicianus, and sister of
Titus Flavius Titianus (b. 165),
consul suffectus c. 200. Her maternal grandfather was
Titus Flavius Titianus, who was
praefectus of
Egypt from 126 to 133. Titiana married Publius Helvius Pertinax, a wealthy
self-made man who had a successful military and civil career. She bore two children, a boy named
Publius Helvius Pertinax and a
daughter. Pertinax was proclaimed emperor after the murder of
Commodus on January 1, 193. While the new
princeps was offering the customary sacrifice on the
Capitoline Hill, the
Roman Senate gave Flavia Titiana the honorary title of
Augusta. After the murder of Pertinax by the
Praetorian Guard on March 28, neither Flavia nor her children were hurt. The highly unreliable
Historia Augusta claims that Flavia Titiana "carried on an amour quite openly with a man who sang to the lyre", but Pertinax was not concerned. ==See also==