Galeria Fundana

Galeria Fundana was a Roman Empress, the second wife of Emperor Vitellius.

Life

Galeria was daughter of an ex-praetor. She bore two children to her husband, a son and a daughter. [ [http://www.roman-emperors.org/vitell.htm Roman Emperors DIR Vitellius ] ] Tacitus, who writes unfavourably about Vitellius, claims that Galeria a woman of "exemplary virtue" who "took no part in these horrors." [ [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16927/16927-h/i.html#Vitellius_Principate The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Histories (Vol I), by Tacitus, translated by W. Hamilton Fyfe ] ]

Her son, Vitellius who was renamed Germanicus by his father in 69, was killed during the Flavian Revolt, together with Vitellius himself. Galeria's life was spared and she was allowed to bury her husband. Her daughter, Vitellia was helped by the generous Vespasian to make a good marriage.

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