He was
suffect consul for the
nundinium of March-April 145 with
Lucius Poblicola Priscus as his colleague. Silvanus was the son of
Lucius Fundanius Lamia Aelianus and his wife Rupilia. According to the
Historia Augusta, Silvanus married Aurelia Fadilla (died 135), daughter of
Antoninus Pius and
Faustina the Elder. The marriage is generally accepted as real, though probably childless. Also according to the
Historia Augusta, the wife of Gordian I was a Roman woman called , born circa 165, whom the
Historia Augusta claims was a descendant of emperors
Antoninus Pius and
Marcus Aurelius through her father Fulvus Antoninus. Modern historians have dismissed this name and her information as false. His wife died before 238.
Christian Settipani tentatively identified her parents as Marcus Annius Severus, who was a suffect
consul, and his wife Silvana, born circa 140, who he argues was the daughter of Silvanus and Fadilla. == References ==