Laberia Hostilia Crispina

Who is Laberia Hostilia Crispina?

Laberia Hostilia Crispina, full name Laberia Marcia Hostilia Crispina Moecia Cornelia, was a noble Roman woman and heiress that lived between the second half of the 1st century and the first half of the 2nd century in the Roman Empire.

Laberia was a contemporary to the rule of Roman Emperor Domitian 81-96 and the rule of the Nervan-Antonian dynasty of Ancient Rome. She was the daughter and only child born to Manius Laberius Maximus and her mother is an unnamed Roman woman. Laberia belonged to a distinguished family of Equestrian rank who came from Lanuvium.

Her father was a significant, distinguished Senator, Suffect Consul and General during the reigns of Emperors Domitian and Trajan. While her paternal grandfather Lucius Laberius Maximus, was a distinguished politician in Domitian’s reign. Lucius successfully was a prefect in charge of the grain supply of Rome. Later he served as the Governor of the Egypt province and became a Praetorian prefect. While her paternal great, grandfather another Lucius Laberius Maximus served as a magistrate.

Laberia was born and raised in Lanuvium or Rome. When her father died in 117, Laberia inherited her family’s fortune and became a rich heiress to the family name. She married the consul and senator Caius Bruttius Praesens Lucius Fulvius Rusticus as his second wife, while Praesens was her first and only husband.