The eldest son of Severus, he was born Lucius Septimius Bassianus in Lugdunum, Gaul.

* Septimius Severus marries a Syrian princess Julia Domna ( age 17 ), she is the youngest daughter of high-priest Julius Bassianus, a descendant of the Royal House of Emesa.

Caracalla, of mixed Punic – Roman and Syrian descent, was born Lucius Septimius Bassianus in Lugdunum, Gaul ( now Lyon, France ), the son of the later Emperor Septimius Severus and Julia Domna.

Julia bore two children during her marriage to Marcianus, a daughter Theoclia ( little is known of her ) and a son, Marcus Julius Gessius Bassianus Alexianus, later emperor Severus Alexander.

The bridge was built by four Kommagenean cities in honor of the Roman Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus ( 193 – 211 ), his second wife Julia Domna and their sons Lucius Septimius Bassianus Caracalla and Publius Septimius Antoninius Geta as emanating from an inscription in Latin on the bridge.

* Constantine I sends his half-brother Julius Constantius to Licinius at Sirmium ( Pannonia ), with the proposal to accept Bassianus as Caesar and his power over Italy.

Born Varius Avitus Bassianus on May 16, 205, known later as M. Aurelius Antonius, he was appointed at an early age to be priest of the sun God, Elagabalus, represented by a phallus, by which name he is known to historians ( his name is sometimes written " Heliogabalus ").

During a royal hunt the following day, Aaron persuades Demetrius and Chiron to kill Bassianus, so they may rape Lavinia.

Born Marcus Julius Gessius Bassianus Alexianus, Alexander was adopted as heir apparent by his slightly older and very unpopular cousin, the Emperor Elagabalus at the urging of the influential and powerful Julia Maesa — who was grandmother of both cousins and who'd arranged for the emperor's acclamation by the Third Legion.

Traceable up to six generations, her father's paternal ancestry includes Sampsiceramus, a Syrian chieftain who founded the Royal family of Emesa ( modern Homs, Syria ) and Gaius Julius Bassianus, a high priest from Emesa and father of Roman Empress Julia Domna.

He married Julia Soaemias, and was the supposed father of Varius Avitus Bassianus, the later Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known as Elagabalus.

She was the youngest daughter of the high-priest Gaius Julius Bassianus and her eldest sister was Julia Maesa.

Together with her mother, Julia plotted to replace Macrinus with her son Varius Avitus Bassianus.

Alexander was born at Arca Caesarea on 1 October, 208, with the name Marcus Julius Gessius Bassianus Alexianus.

In 221, Alexander's grandmother, Maesa, persuaded the Emperor to adopt his cousin as successor and make him Caesar and Bassianus changed his name to Alexander.

Her father, Julius Bassianus, descended from the royal house of Samsigeramus and Sohaemus, and served as a high priest to the local cult of the sun god Elagabal.

Together, they had two sons, Lucius Septimius Bassianus ( later nicknamed Caracalla, b. 4 April 188 ) and Publius Septimius Geta ( b. 7 March 189 ).

* Lucius Septimius Bassianus ( Caracalla ), age 7, changed his name to Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to solidify connections with the family of Marcus Aurelius and is given the title Caesar.

* April 4 – Lucius Septimius Bassianus ( Caracalla ), Roman Emperor ( d. 217 )

For instance, Caracalla's maternal grandfather was Julius Bassianus, but Caracalla's cognomen was not Julianus, but rather Bassianus as well.

Bassianus is accused of conspiracy and executed.

At the age of seven, his name was changed to Marcus Aurelius Septimius Bassianus Antoninus to create a connection to the family of the philosopher emperor Marcus Aurelius.

The play begins shortly after the death of the Roman Emperor, with his two sons, Saturninus and Bassianus, squabbling over who will succeed him.

Titus agrees, although Lavinia is already betrothed to Bassianus, who refuses to give her up.

Titus's sons tell Titus that Bassianus is in the right under Roman law, but Titus refuses to listen, accusing them all of treason.

However, putting into motion her plan for revenge, Tamora advises Saturninus to pardon Bassianus and the Andronicus family, which he reluctantly does.

They do so, throwing Bassianus ' body into a pit, and dragging Lavinia deep into the forest before violently raping her.

Constantius accepted Julian's report of events and Marcellus was replaced as magister equitum by Severus.

* Septimius Severus finally gains control of the Roman Empire, in Britain Clodius Albinus allies with him and accepted the title of Caesar.

In the civil war that followed, Albinus was initially allied with Septimius Severus, who had captured Rome, took his own name Septimius and accepted the title of Caesar from him ; the two shared a consulship in 194.

Maximian accepted, and when Severus arrived under the walls of Rome and besieged it, his men deserted him and passed to Maximian, their old commander.

A dismissive allusion in the text to the " wealth of Hungary " has suggested the hypothesis that it was written after 1184, at the time when Bela III of Hungary had sent to the French court a statement of his income and had proposed marriage to Marie's sister Marguerite of France, but before 1186, when his proposal was accepted.

He is known to have been married to Cornelia Bosman in 1658, a date coinciding so directly with the end of his productivity as a painter that it has been accepted that his marriage played some sort of role in the end of his artistic career.

By the summer of 1912 Heelis had proposed marriage and Beatrix had accepted, although she did not immediately tell her parents who once again disapproved because Heelis was only a country solicitor.

Nineteen-year-old Fauziya Kasinga, a member of the Tchamba-Kunsuntu tribe of Togo, was granted asylum in 1996 after leaving an arranged marriage to escape FGM, setting a precedent in U. S. immigration law because FGM was for the first time accepted as a form of persecution.

He proposed marriage to four women, and eventually Sonia Brownell accepted.

" Indeed, Madison and Freneau would have become brothers-in-law had Freneau's favorite sister, Mary, accepted Madison's repeated proposals of marriage.

The encounter apparently went smoothly, for a brisk courtship followed and, by August, she had accepted his proposal of marriage.

Then she sent word to Prince Mal that she accepted the proposal, but required their most distinguished men to accompany her on the journey in order for her people to accept the offer of marriage.

That summer Ruth fell deeply in love with Stanley as he began to visit her more, and accepted his proposal for marriage.

The widow proposed marriage to William fitzOsbern, who was in Normandy, and fitzOsbern accepted.

But within a year, he proposed marriage to her, and she accepted.

The marriage was widely accepted by the laity, although Edith was considered Harold's mistress by the clergy.

Isabella Thorpe: A manipulative and self-serving young woman on a quest to obtain a well-off husband ; at the time, marriage was the accepted way for young women of a certain class to become " established " with a household of their own ( as opposed to becoming a dependent spinster ), and Isabella lacks most assets ( such as wealth or family connections to bring to a marriage ) that would make her a " catch " on the " marriage market ".

In August 2011, the APA clarified their support of same-sex marriage in light of continued research suggesting that the same community benefits accepted as result of hetero-sexual marriage apply to same-sex couples as well, " We knew that marriage benefits heterosexual people in very significant ways, but we didn't know if that would be true for same-sex couples ," said Dr. Clinton Anderson, associate executive director of the APA and director of the Office on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns.

His marriage to the widowed Lady Grey took place secretly and though the date is not accepted as exactly accurate is traditionally said to have taken place ( with only the bride's mother and two ladies in attendance ) at her family home in Northamptonshire on 1 May 1464, just over three years after he had taken the English throne subsequent to leading the Yorkists in an overwhelming victory over the Lancastrians at the Battle of Towton.

According to the historian Herodian, in AD 216, Caracalla tricked the Parthians into believing that he accepted a marriage and peace proposal, but then had the bride and guests slaughtered after the wedding celebrations.

Although the states ( except part of Louisiana ) follow common law, there are differences in acceptable requirements ; usually a court order is the most efficient way to change names ( which would be applied for in a state court ), except at marriage, which has become a universally accepted reason for a name change.

Due to increasing security and identification needs, even where it is legal, the common law method is rarely accepted anymore except at marriage ( especially for women ).

This process is expedited for newly married persons in that their marriage certificate, in combination with identification using their married name, is usually accepted as evidence of the change, due to the widespread custom, but the process still requires approaching every contact who uses the old name and asking them to use the new.

Some critics oppose the practice of women changing their names upon marriage, on the grounds that it makes women historically invisible: " In our society ' only men have real names ' in that their names are permanent and they have ' accepted the permanency of their names as one of the rights of being male .'...