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Mamaea was Julia's younger sister Julia Soaemias, daughter of Julia Maesa and niece of Julia Domna, the wife of Septimius Severus. In the early third century she married a Roman knight and lived in Arca (Tell Arqa, Lebanon) where she gave birth to her son Alexianus. After 218, when his nephew Bassianus (the emperor Heliogabalus) was proclaimed Augustus reign and went to Rome with his mother Julia Soaemias and his grandmother Julia Maesa, as she settled in Rome with Alexianus. In 221, at the insistence of Julia Maesa, adopted his cousin Heliogabalus Alexianus who became Caesar under the name of Alexander Severus (Severus Alexander). When Heliogabalus with his mother was murdered in 222, Severus Alexander became Augustus. Mamaea Julia, his mother, became Augusta. At first the empire was in fact led by the matriarch Julia Maesa. At his death, the power returned to mother-son couple formed by Mamaea Julia and Alexander Severus. The latter married a Orbiane time, which was quickly repudiated. Julia Mamaea found himself in fact the true patron of the empire, never separating from her son. Alexander Severus and Julia Mamaea were murdered in 235 near Mogontiacum (Mainz, Germany) by a military mutiny.