Thermantia
Aemilia Materna Thermantia († 415 in Rome ) was the second wife of the Roman emperor Honorius .
Thermantia was a daughter of the magister militum Stilicho and the Serena . She had a brother named Eucherius and a sister named Maria who was married to Emperor Honorius, her mother's cousin. After Maria's death, Thermantia 408 was probably Honorius' second wife when she was still a child.
After her father was overthrown in August 408, she was banished from the imperial palace without the marriage having been consummated and brought to her mother in Rome . Serena, however, was already executed at the end of 408 during the first siege of Rome by Alaric because the Senate suspected she had summoned Alaric.
Thermantia survived her parents' murder by a few years; she died in 415.
literature
- Anja Busch: The women of the Theodosian dynasty. Power and representation of imperial women in the 5th century (= Historia - individual writings . Volume 237 ). Steiner, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-515-11044-0 , pp. 53–58 ( specialist review by H-Soz-Kult ).
- Kirsten Gross-Albenhausen: Thermantia [3]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/1, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01482-7 , column 413.
- John Robert Martindale: Aemilia Materna Thermantia. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4 , pp. 1111-1112.
Remarks
- ↑ CIL 6, 36965 = CIL 15, 7151 .
- ↑ Zosimos 5:28 ; 5.32 .
- ↑ Zosimos 5:35 ; 5.37 .
- ↑ Zosimos 5:38 .
- ↑ Chronicon Paschale sub anno 415.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thermantia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thermantia, Aemilia Materna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | second wife of the Roman emperor Honorius |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 415 |
| Place of death | Rome |