Domitilla the Elder
Flavia Domitilla Major Flavia Domitilla the Elder or Domitilla the Elder was the wife of the Roman Emperor Vespasian.Life
Flavia Domitilla was born in Sabratha to Italian colonists who had moved there during the reign of Augustus. She was the daughter of Flavius Liberalis, a humble quaestor’s clerk from Ferentium, a country town in Italy. Before her marriage, she was a formal mistress to an equestrian.
depicting Flavia Domitilla Minor
Vespasian married her around AD 38. She was the mother of Domitilla the Younger and of the emperors Titus and Domitian. She died before Vespasian became emperor.
She was the grandmother of Saint Flavia Domitilla, daughter of Domitilla the Younger.
