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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7819743, member: 75937&quot;]I&#039;m so sorry, Paul, if I didn&#039;t get back to you. And now after so long, I no longer even remember receiving a family tree of the Antonines from you. It may have come during a time when I didn&#039;t have time to write a proper reply and then I forgot about it in the following days.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been studying well-researched secondary sources to learn more about Faustina&#039;s children. I have drawn new conclusions over the past few years about the birth order and identity of Faustina&#039;s children (the ancient sources are very vague and sometimes contradictory). I currently accept the names and birth orders outlined by Walter Ameling and by Barbara Levick. In light of the numismatic evidence, I have narrowed down some of the birth years more than they do.</p><p><br /></p><p>I currently accept the following (there is scholarly disagreement about the details). Twelve children in 11 pregnancies:</p><p><br /></p><ol> <li>Domitia Faustina, born 30 November 147. She was dead for sure by 161, but died most likely in 150 or 151.</li> <li>Lucilla, born 7 March 149.</li> <li>Faustina III, born 150/151. She survived until about 180/81.</li> <li>T. Aelius Antoninus, born 152. Died in infancy/early childhood.</li> <li>Son dead in infancy, late 157 or early 158. He might have been T. Aelius Aurelius.</li> <li>Fadilla, born 159. She survived Commodus.</li> <li>Cornificia, born August 160. She survived until 212, when she was killed by Caracalla.</li> <li>Twins T. Aurelius Fulvius Antoninus and L. Aurelius Commodus, born 31 August 161. The first born twin died in infancy or early childhood.<br /> </li> <li>M. Annius Verus, born towards the end of 162. He died at the age of 7 after having a tumor surgically removed from his head.</li> <li>Hadrianus, born mid 163-164 (likely before Lucilla&#039;s marriage to Varus in 164). Still alive as &quot;son of Emperor Marcus&quot; in inscriptions from c. 180.</li> <li>Vibia Sabina, born c. 170-171, who would have been the three-year-old at Sirmium when Herodes Atticus was there in 174.</li> </ol><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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