Publia Fulvia Plautilla, wife of Caracalla

• Publia Fulvia Plautilla was the daughter of Septimius Severus's friend Gaius Fulvius Plautianus, Commander of the praetorian guard.
• He married her off to his son Caracalla in 202 AD.
• Caracalla had no choice in the matter and felt no affection whatsoever towards Plautilla.
• In order to provide an entourage of eunuchs at his daughter's wedding, Plautianus had one hundred free Roman citizens castrated.
• Caracalla also hated Plautianus and on 22nd January 205, a charge of treason was brought against him and he was put to death with Severus' approval
• Plautilla was banished to Lipari.
• Severus died at York on 4th February 211, and Caracalla and Geta became joint Augustii.
• In February 212, Geta was murdered by Caracalla.
• During the early months of 212, 20,000 associates of Geta were executed, among them, Publia Pulvia Plautilla
• Numismatic evidence suggests that Plautilla bore a child, possibly a girl, born in 204 and was then exiled and murdered along with her mother.