Plautilla

Bust of Plautilla (Palazzo Massimo, Rome)

Publia Fulvia Plautilla (†211): name of a Roman princess, wife of Caracalla.

Life

Date of birth unknown; daughter of Gaius Fulvius Plautianus, the praetorian prefect
9-15 April 202: Marriage to Caracalla; official title Plautilla Augusta
205, 22 January: Fall of Plautianus; she is sent into exile to Lipara, one of the Aeolian Islands
February 211: Accession of Caracalla, who immediately orders the execution of his former wife

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