Trajan - The Future Emperor

Nerva knew that conditions like these can lead quickly to civil war if they are not headed off at the pass. He did not have the support of the legions, and the pretorians had just publicly humiliated him. His only real political allies were in the senate, and, well, nobody liked them anyway. The future emperor was born in spain in 53 a d near modern day seville. Now it is a matter of some dispute whether trajan was technically a provincial or whether he was the member of a displaced roman family that moved into the region following rome's development of the iberian peninsula.