Background
Via his mother he was a grandson of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, but he played only a limited role in dynastic politics. He was the son of the Pontian Greek Roman Senator and Peripatetic Philosopher, Gnaeus Claudius Severus, and his second wife the Roman Princess Annia Aurelia Galeria Faustina. He had a paternal half-brother called Marcus Claudius Ummidius Quadratus, from his father"s first marriage, who was adopted by the Roman Consul Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus, a nephew of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Career
Severus Proculus was of noble descent, born in a wealthy, prominent, distinguished family in Pompeiopolis, a city in the Roman province of Galatia. Severus Proculus was born and raised in Pompeiopolis. When Marcus Aurelius died in 180, Commodus succeeded him.
By then, Severus was one of Commodus" few remaining living male relatives, but he was completely ignored as a potential successor.
In 193, after the deaths Pertinax and Didius Julianus, Septimius Severus finally took command and founded the new Severan dynasty. During his reign (193-211), Severus Proculus served as a Senator and in 200 served as an ordinary consul.
They settled to live in his wife’s large great estate in Pisidia, where an honorific inscription, dated in 207, was found stating them as owners. Around 201, the couple had a daughter called Annia Aurelia Faustina, curiously not named after Severus.
lieutenant appears that he named her in honor of his mother"s family, the gens Aurelia and Annia.
lieutenant seems that they did not to have any more children.