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| | Women in power Year 1-500 |
 | | While her emperor husband, Septimius Severus, was fighting rivals, pursuing rebels, and subduing revolts in the far corners of the empire, she was left to administer the vast Roman Empire. |
 | | As the emperor's mother, with the title Iulia Soaemias Augusta, she played a great role in government and administration and was in fact the de facto ruler of Rome, since her son was concerned mainly with religious matters. |
 | | After Emperor Maximus I Thrax was murdered, her 13-year-old son, Emperor Gordianus III (225-38-44) was placed on the throne with her in charge of the regency. |
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