Annia Cornificia Faustina Verus

<span style="font-family: arial"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt">Annia Cornificia Faustina</span><div style="margin-: 0.5cm; margin-: 3pt"><p><strong>Annia Cornificia Faustina</strong>&nbsp;(123-152) was the younger child and an only daughter to&nbsp;praetor&nbsp;Marcus Annius Verus and&nbsp;Domitia Lucilla. Her elder brother would be future Roman Emperor&nbsp;Marcus Aurelius. She was born in&nbsp;Rome&nbsp;and raised in&nbsp;Italy. Her parents came from wealthy, senatorial families who were of consular rank.</p><p>Cornificia&rsquo;s father died in&nbsp;124. Her and her brother were raised by her mother and adopted by her paternal grandfather&nbsp;Marcus Annius Verus. Her grandfather died in&nbsp;138. Relations between her and her brother appeared to be good.</p><p>Before she married, she settled her paternal inheritance with her brother. Cornificia married Marcus Ummidius Quadratus, a man of consular rank. Their children were a son, a younger Marcus Ummidius Quadratus (consul in&nbsp;167) and a daughter, Ummidia Cornificia Faustina. Her children were involved in a failed plot to kill their cousin the emperor&nbsp;Commodus&nbsp;in&nbsp;182&nbsp;and Commodus ordered their deaths.</p></div></span>