Roman emperor trajan biography
Roman emperor antoninus pius.
Life: AD 52 – 117
- Name: Marcus Ulpius Trajanus
- Born on 18 September AD 53 at Italica in Spain.
- Consul AD 91, 98, 100, 101, 103, 112.
- Became emperor on 28 January AD 98.
- Wife: Pompeia Plotina.
- Died at Selinus, 7 August AD 117.
Marcus Ulpius Trajanus was born on 18 September in Italica near Seville, most likely in the year AD 52.
Roman emperor trajan biography
His Spanish origin made him the first emperor not to come from Italy. Although he was from an old Umbrian family from Tuder in northern Italy that had chosen to settle in Spain. So his family was not a purely provincial one.
His father, also called Marcus Ulpius Trajanus, was the first of the to reach the office of senator, commanded the Tenth Legion ‘Fretensis’ in the Jewish War of AD 67-68, and became consul in around AD 70.
In about AD 75, he became governor of Syria, one of the key military provinces in the empire. Later he was to be governor of the provinces of Baetica and Asia.
Trajan’s Military Career
He served in Syria as a military tr