Vibia Sabina

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Roman imperial dynasties
Nervo-Trajanic Dynasty

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Nerva
Children
Natural - (none)
Adoptive - Trajan
Trajan
Children
Natural - (none)
Adoptive - Hadrian
Hadrian
Children
Natural - (none)
Adoptive - Lucius Aelius
Adoptive - Antoninus Pius

Vibia Sabina (c. 86 - 136 or 137) was an Empress and wife to Roman Emperor Hadrian. She was born about 86 to Salonina Matidia, niece of Emperor Trajan and Lucius Vibius Sabinus, a man of consular rank.

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She married Hadrian, at the Empress Plotina's request, for him to succeed her great-uncle, in 117. Sabina's mother was also, very fond of her second cousin (Hadrian) and allowed him to marry her.

They had no children and might have had an unhappy marriage. This beautiful woman was strong and independent and her beliefs in marriage didn't sit well with the Emperor. Sabina had an affair with one of his slave boys.

In 128, she was awarded with the title of Augusta.

She died in 136 or 137, before her husband, of unknown causes. There are rumours that Hadrian poisoned her, however there is not enough evidence to prove this.