Background
Her father died in 78 Civil Engineering and Matidia went with her mother to live with Trajan and his wife, Pompeia Plotina.
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Career
Her maternal uncle was the Roman emperor Trajan. Between 81 and 82, Matidia married a suffect consul and former proconsul Lucius Vibius Sabinus. Sabinus died in 83 or 84.
Matidia bore Sabinus a daughter called Vibia Sabina, who would marry the future Roman Emperor Hadrian.
In 84, Matidia married for a second time to an otherwise unattested Roman aristocrat called Lucius Mindius. Matidia bore Mindius a daughter called Mindia Matidia, commonly known as Matidia Minor.
Mindius died in 85. Matidia later married Lucius Scribonius Libo Rupilius Frugi Bonus, who was suffect consul in 88.
Matidia bore Frugi a daughter called Rupilia Faustina. Like her mother, Matidia was honored with monuments and inscriptions in her name throughout the Roman Empire.
On August 29, 112, she received the title of Augusta. When Trajan died in 117, Matidia and Plotina brought the emperor"s ashes back to Rome.
In 119 Matidia died, whereupon the Roman Emperor Hadrian delivered her funeral oration, deified her, and granted her a temple and altar in Rome itself.
