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Fulvia Plautilla. Publia Fulvia Plautilla (died 211) was the wife of the Roman emperor Caracalla, her paternal second cousin. After her father was condemned for treason, she was exiled and eventually killed, possibly on Caracalla's orders. [2] [3] Life. Plautilla was born and raised in Rome. She belonged to the gens Fulvia of ancient Rome.
In Caracalla. …14 he was married to Fulvia Plautilla, the daughter of the influential and ambitious commander of the imperial guard, Fulvius Plautianus; he is said to have hated Plautianus and played an important role in having him executed on the charge of a conspiracy against the imperial dynasty.
Publia Fulvia Plautilla (c.187-211): name of a Roman princess, wife of Caracalla. Plautilla was the daughter of Gaius Fulvius Plautianus, the praetorian prefect of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus (r.193-211), and a woman who was probably named Hortensia.
Publia Fulvia Plautilla was the wife of Caracalla (q.v.), selected by his father Septimius Severus (q.v.) to cement relations with the commander of the Praetorian Guard (her father). Caracalla hated the marriage, and refused to eat or sleep with his wife. He threatened to kill both her and her father when he came to power.
A Portrait of the Empress Plautilla Sheldon Nodelman During her two and a half years as Augusta (Spring 202-January 205), Fulvia Plautilla' was a central figure in the desperate game of political intrigue within the Severan im-perial court. Her father, the praetorian praefect Fulvius Plautianus,2 had brought himself to a position of unpar-
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Plautilla. In 202 AD Caracalla married Fulvia Plautilla, daughter of Fulvius Plautianus, who became praetorian prefect. After the downfall and death of her father, in 205 AD, Plautilla was sent into exile: "Severus sent the girl and her brother to Sicily, providing them with sufficient funds to live in comfort there" (Herodianus III,13,3).
Bust of Plautilla. From the Giustiniani Collection comes this exceptional portrait of Fulvia Plautilla, equal in age with Caracalla and his wife in 202 AD. She was Augusta of the Roman Empire until 205 AD, the year in which her husband asked for divorce. Relegated to Lipari, Plautilla was assassinated in 212 AD. by order of Caracalla.
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