Official Name: IMPERATOR CAESAR MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS AUGUSTUS
Birthdate: April 4, 188 CE.
(Cassius Dio, Roman History, 79.6)
Birthplace: Lugdunum, Gaul (modern-day Lyon, France).
(Historia Augusta, Life of Septimius Severus, 3)
Reign: Caracalla was named emperor in 198 CE, at the age of 9, on the orders of his father Septimius Severus. Caracalla ruled jointly with his father for a period of thirteen years. When Septimius Severus died on February 4, 211 CE, Caracalla began to rule jointly with his younger brother Geta. After having Geta assassinated on December 26, 211 CE, Caracalla became sole emperor.
(Cassius Dio, Roman History, 78.1-2)
Marriages:
Fulvia Plautilla (202-205 CE)
(Cassius Dio, Roman History, 78.1)
Children:
Unnamed daughter (by Fulvia Plautilla)
Death: Caracalla was killed by his soldiers on April 8, 217 CE on the road between Edessa and Carrhae (in modern-day Turkey).
(Cassius Dio, Roman History, 79.6) (Herodian 4.13)
Bust of Caracalla, Altes Museum, Berlin, February 2023
Portrait of Caracalla, Palazzo Massimo, Rome, December 2018
Bust of Caracalla, Musei Capitolini, Rome, April 2019
211
(Cassius Dio, Roman History, 78.2)
212
(Cassius Dio, Roman History, 78.9)
217
(Herodian 4.13) (Historia Augusta, Life of Antoninus Caracalla, 7)
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