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Valeria Messala Messalla Cornelia (Valeria-Messalla)

Birthdate:
Death: circa -78
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Consul (61 BC) - Marcus Valerius Messalla Niger (Up) and Hortensia
Wife of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, Dictator of the Roman Republic
Mother of Cornelia Postuma
Sister of Consul (53 BC) - Marcus Valerius Messalla Rufus (up) and Marcus Valerius Messalla Rufus
Half sister of Consul (31 BC) - Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus (up); Valeria (1) Mrs. Quintus Pedius and Valeria (2) Mrs. Servius Sulpicius Rufus, MESSALA NIGER

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About Valeria-Messalla

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeria_Messala

Valeria (wife of Sulla)

  • Valeria was the fourth wife of Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
  • She was the daughter of Marcus Valerius Messalla Niger and sister to consul of 53 BC, Marcus Valerius Messalla Rufus.

Note from FARKAS Mihály László:

Parents of her brother, Marcus Valerius Messalla Rufus were:

  • Marcus Valerius Messalla and
  • Hortensia Marcus Valerius Messalla Niger had two daughters both named Valeria, but their's husbands were:
  • Servius Sulpicius Rufus and
  • Quintus Pedius

Valeria

Valeria was the fifth wife of Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla. She was the daughter of Marcus Valerius Messalla Niger and a sister of the consul of 53 BC, Marcus Valerius Messalla Rufus.

An "alert young divorcee", as Ronald Syme writes, she attracted the notice of Sulla at the theatre, and he married her towards the end of his life. When he retired from public life to a villa in southern Italy, she accompanied him. She was pregnant at the time of his death in 78 BC and had a daughter, Cornelia Postuma, some months later.

Plutarch calls her a sister of the orator Quintus Hortensius, but this is a mistake probably arising from the fact that the sister of Hortensius married a Valerius Messala.

Source :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeria_(wife_of_Sulla)