Between 81 and 82, Matidia married a suffect
consul and former
proconsul Lucius Vibius Sabinus. Sabinus died in 83 or 84. Matidia bore Sabinus a daughter called
Vibia Sabina, who would marry the future Roman Emperor
Hadrian. Matidia was very fond of her second cousin Hadrian and allowed him to marry Vibia Sabina. In 84, Matidia married for a second time to an otherwise unknown Roman aristocrat called
Lucius Mindius. Matidia bore Mindius a daughter called Mindia Matidia, commonly known as
Matidia Minor. Mindius died in 85. showing Matidia
Augusta as the goddess
Pietas, holding hands with her daughters
Sabina and Matidia Minor Matidia later married
Lucius Scribonius Libo Rupilius Frugi Bonus, who was suffect consul in 88. Frugi had a daughter called
Rupilia Faustina from an earlier marriage. Faustina would go on to marry the
Roman Senator Marcus Annius Verus, their daughter became empress
Faustina the Elder and their son
Marcus Annius Verus's son became emperor
Marcus Aurelius. Matidia often traveled with her uncle and assisted him with decision-making. Like her mother, Matidia was honored with monuments and inscriptions in her name throughout the Roman Empire. On 29 August 112, she received the title of
Augusta upon the death and divinization of Marciana. '' When Trajan died in 117, Matidia and Plotina brought the emperor's ashes back to Rome. In 119 Matidia died, whereupon the Roman Emperor
Hadrian delivered her funeral oration, deified her, and granted her
a temple and altar in Rome itself. She thus became the first divinized Roman woman to be dedicated a full-scale temple of her own, as opposed to one shared with her husband or a smaller shrine. ==References==