# Commodus marries Bruttia Crispina in 178 as a dynastic match under Marcus as received

Date: 178

## The fact

Livius records [Commodus](/people/commodus)’s marriage to Bruttia Crispina in 178. Britannica independently places the match in the late joint-rule years.

It is one event.

## Context

A named imperial marriage is a continuity path under Marcus’s still-living authority. Shared household with Faustina’s circle remains.

Commodus’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Livius dates the marriage to 178 under Marcus. Crispina’s later exile and death are a neighbouring hostile-source row, not this wedding. Dio and later lives are literary carriers, not a wedding register.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Livius — Commodus and Britannica — Commodus independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Livius — Commodus (https://www.livius.org/articles/person/commodus/; Livius.org).

## Significance

The 178 marriage is a continuity path of high confidence on the heading in standard chronologies, none on a unique dynastic stability coefficient.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a sourced public record of this instrument at the date assigned here.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Commodus.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `democratic-resilience` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Commodus did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not merge 178 wedding with 182 Lucilla or with Crispina’s later exile. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Commodus.

## People

- Commodus: https://factrail.ai/people/commodus

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.livius.org/articles/person/commodus/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Commodus

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/com-crispina-marriage-178