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Julia Cornelia Paula (lived 3rd century AD) was a distinguished Roman noblewoman who became Empress of Rome as the first wife of the Roman emperor Elagabalus, who divorced her. [1] [2] Life [ edit ]
Julia Paula was the first of Roman emperor Elagabalus' three wives (he was also married to Aquilia Severa and Annia Faustina ). Julia Paula married him in 219 and was divorced between 220 and 221. Julia Paula (fl. 220 ce)Roman empress. Born Julia Cornelia Paula; married Varius Avitus Bassianus Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, known as Elagabalus ...
Jan 5, 2016 · His first marriage, to Julia Cornelia Paula, lasted from early 219 to late 220. After divorcing her, Heliogabalus immediately married his second wife, Julia Aquilia Severa. She was a Vestal virgin ...
Dec 6, 2014 · Julia Cornelia Paula was Empress of Rome from 219-220.Cornelia Paula was a member of the gens Cornelia through her maternal line. Her father, Julius Paulus, was a Roman Nobleman of Greek descent and a historically noted jurist active throughout the Severan Dynasty becoming a praetorian prefect in Rome. She was thus of both Patrician Roman and ...
Jun 14, 2020 · Soon after he arrived in Rome, she sought to confirm his status by marrying him to Julia Cornelia Paula, a member of a highly influential family, but they divorced after barely a year, with Elagabalus claiming that his bride was ‘bodily unsuitable’ to be an emperor’s wife.
His first wife was Julia Cornelia Paula, whom he married prior to 29 August 219; between then and 28 August 220, he divorced Paula, took the Vestal Virgin Julia Aquilia Severa as his second wife, divorced her, and took a third wife, who Herodian says was Annia Aurelia Faustina, a descendant of Marcus Aurelius and the widow of a man Elagabalus ...
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Julia Cornelia Paula, said to be the daughter of Paulus, praetorian prefect, was the first wife of Elagabalus having been married to that odious miscreant A.D. 219.—Divorced shortly after her nuptials, on some pretence of bodily defect, she died in retirement.—. Her gold coins are of the highest rarity, silver by no means scarce, first ...
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