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Lollia Paulina
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Lollia Paulina (PIR2 L 308) (? - AD 49) was the third wife to Roman Emperor Caligula. Her father, Marcus Lollius was a formal consul, and her mother was a distant cousin to Emperor Tiberius. She became quite rich as the heir of their estates. Her sister Lollia Saturnina married Decimus Valerius Asiaticus, consul in 35 and 46, to whom she bore a son.
Lollia Paulina's first husband was a consul and a Roman Governor, Publius Memmius Regulus. Caligula ordered her from him after Caligula heard a remark on how beautiful her grandmother was. Caligula married her in 38 AD. He divorced her after six months because she was infertile, and forbade her to sleep with or go near another man.
In later years, Lollia became a rival to Agrippina the Younger and was considered a choice for wife to Emperor Claudius. In 49 AD, Agrippina the Younger charged her with black magic; Lollia did not get a hearing. Her property was confiscated and she left Italy. On orders, she committed suicide.
She is mentioned in Pliny the Elder's Natural history as an example of ostentation, reportedly wearing a large share of her inheritance to a dinner party in the form of jewelry, worth some 40 million sesterces.
| Preceded by Livia Orestilla |
Empress of Rome AD 38 |
Succeeded by Milonia Caesonia |
- E. Groag, A. Stein, L. Petersen - e.a. (edd.), Prosopographia Imperii Romani saeculi I, II et III, Berlin, 1933 - . (PIR2)