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27 BC – AD 14), as wife of Augustus, was the first and longest-reigning empress. The term Roman empress usually refers to the consorts of the Roman emperors, the rulers of the Roman Empire. The duties, power and influence of empresses varied depending on the time period, contemporary politics and the personalities of their husband and themselves.
The word emperor (from Latin: imperator, via Old French: empereor) [1] can mean the male ruler of an empire. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife (empress consort), mother/grandmother (empress dowager/grand empress dowager), or a woman who rules in her own right and name (empress regnant or suo jure).
Livia Drusilla (30 January 59 BC – AD 29) was Roman empress from 27 BC to AD 14 as the wife of Augustus, the first Roman emperor. She was known as Julia Augusta after her formal adoption into the Julia gens in AD 14. Livia was the daughter of the senator Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus and his wife Alfidia.
[e] The title, still in use, is generally conferred on an emperor's wife who had given birth to the heir to the throne. [7] The title was first awarded posthumously in 806 to the late mother of Emperor Heizei. [8] In ancient Japan, most of the empresses consort were princesses, except for Iwa no hime (empress consort of Nintoku).
Wives of Byzantine emperors (1 C, 1 P) * Roman empresses (5 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Wives of Roman emperors" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 ...
Queen Dowager Zhao, wife of King Zhuangxiang of Qin and mother of Qin Shi Huang. Empress Lü, wife of Emperor Gaozu of Han. Wu Zetian, wife of Emperor Gaozong and mother of Emperors Zhongzong and Ruizong of Tang. Later became the only Empress regnant in the history of China. Empress Dowager Cixi, wife of Xianfeng Emperor and mother of Tongzhi ...
Theodora (/ ˌ θ iː ə ˈ d ɔːr ə /; Greek: Θεοδώρα; c. 490/500 – 28 June 548) [1] was a Byzantine empress and wife of emperor Justinian I.She was from humble origins and became empress when her husband became emperor in 527.
Julia Domna (Latin: [ˈjuːli.a ˈdomna]; c. 160 – 217 AD) was Roman empress from 193 to 211 as the wife of Emperor Septimius Severus. She was the first empress of the Severan dynasty. Domna was born in Emesa (present-day Homs) in Roman Syria to an Arab family [2] of priests of the deity Elagabalus.