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Episode CXXXVII - Mother Knows Best (Severus Alexander I)

Emperors of Rome

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Are Women Power Brokers?

Mamiya wanted to be the only Augusta. She didn't like the fact that his new wife also had that title, which I find a bit implausible because she essentially chose this girl. The abuse went to such lengths that the father of the girl, in spite of his high position of honor as father-in-law to Alexander, could not stand the insults Mamiya offered him and his daughter. Furious at this, the Empress ordered him to be executed, and the girl, already turned out of the palace, was exiled to Libya. So by 227, Orbiana is off the scene, and Severus Alexander never marries again.

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