Appius Annius Atilius Bradua was a Senator of the Roman Empire in the 2nd century.
Annius Bradua was born and raised in an aristocratic family of consular rank and was a member of the gens Annia. He was a member of the venerable family of the Annii Regilli. Regilli means 'Little Queen'.
His father was Appius Annius Trebonius Gallus. Annius Gallus was a distinguished Roman Senator and one of the serving consuls in the year 139 and his mother was a Roman aristocratic woman called Atilia Caucidia Tertulla. The sibling of Annius Bradua, his sister Appia Annia Regilla Atilia Caucidia Tertulla, otherwise known as Aspasia Annia Regilla married the prominent Greek Herodes Atticus.
The paternal grandparents of Annius Bradua was the Roman Senator Appius Annius Trebonius Gallus and his unnamed wife, while his maternal grandparents of Annius Bradua was the Roman Senator and Governor Marcus Appius Bradua and the aristocratic woman Caucidia Tertulla. His mother’s brother was Marcus Atilius Metilius Bradua Caucidius Tertullus…Bassus. His uncle served as a polyonymous Proconsul of the Africa Province under the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius (138-161). His grandfathers were both consular colleagues in the year 108.
Through his paternal grandfather, Annius Bradua was related to the Roman Senator Marcus Annius Verus, who was a brother-in-law of Roman Emperor Hadrian and father of the Roman Empress Faustina the Elder, wife of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius. Faustina the Elder was the mother of Roman Empress Faustina the Younger and aunt of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
In the year 160, Annius Bradua served as an ordinary consul. In the year of Annius Bradua’s consulship, his sister who was eight months pregnant with her sixth child was kicked to death in the abdomen by a freedman of Herodes Atticus named Alcimedon. Annius Bradua brought charges in Rome against his brother-in-law, alleging that Herodes Atticus had been responsible for her death; Herodes Atticus was exonerated of the charge by Marcus Aurelius, the heir of Antoninus Pius and student of the defendant.