Editing Severus Alexander (section)

=== Family ===
[[File:Orbiana Denarius.jpg|thumb|left|Denarius of Sallustia Orbiana. Inscription: SALL. BARBIA ORBIANA AVG.|174x174px]]
Alexander's only known wife was [[Sallustia Orbiana]], ''[[Augusta (honorific)|Augusta]]'', whom he married in 225 when she was 16 years old. Their marriage was arranged by Alexander's mother, Mamaea.<ref name="Alexander Severus"/> According to historian [[Herodian]], however, as soon as Orbiana received the title of ''Augusta'', Mamaea became increasingly jealous and resentful of Alexander's wife due to Mamaea's excessive desire of all regal female titles.{{sfn|Benario|2023}} Alexander divorced and exiled Orbiana in 227, after her father, [[Seius Sallustius]], was executed after being accused of treason.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Davenport|first=Caillan|date=2011|title=Iterated Consulships and the Government of Severus Alexander.|journal=Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik|volume=177|pages=281–288|jstor=41291183}}</ref>

According to ''[[Historia Augusta]]'', a late Roman work containing biographies of emperors and others, and considered by scholars to be a work of dubious historical reliability,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Browning|first1=Robert|title=The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 5, The Later Principat|date=1983|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-27371-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/latinliterature0000unse/page/41 41–50]|url=https://archive.org/details/latinliterature0000unse/page/41}}</ref> Alexander was also at some point married to Sulpicia Memmia, a member of one of the most ancient Patrician families in Rome and a daughter to a man of consular rank; her grandfather's name was ''Catulus''. She is mentioned as his wife only in this later text, thus the marriage has been questioned.<ref>[[Historia Augusta]], ''Life of Severus Alexander'', 20:3</ref><ref>Kosmetatou, Elizabeth, ''The Public Image of Julia Mamaea. An Epigraphic and Numismatic Inquiry,'' in ''Latomus'' 61, 2002, pp. 409 note 38</ref>

The ancient historian [[Zosimus (historian)|Zosimus]] claimed that Alexander was married three times.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Life of Alexander Severus|last=Nind Hopkins|first=R. V.|publisher=CUP Archive|year=1985|pages=56}}</ref> A man named Varius Macrinus may have been Alexander's father-in-law, but it is uncertain if he was the same man as Seius Sallustius, the father of Memmia or the father of an entirely unknown third wife.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Life of Alexander Severus|last=Nind Hopkins|first=R. V.|publisher=CUP Archive|year=1985|pages=57–58}}</ref>

Alexander is not known to have fathered any children.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Life of Alexander Severus|last=Nind Hopkins|first=R. V.|publisher=CUP Archive|year=1985|pages=59}}</ref>