Her maternal great-grandparents were Marcus Aurelius’ sister, the noblewoman Annia Cornificia Faustina and Gaius Ummidius Quadratus Annianus Verus a Roman Senator who served as a suffect consul in 146.

These estates were very large properties, established from the time of the dictator of the Roman Republic, Lucius Cornelius Sulla (c. 138-78 BC).

About 216, her father may have made a political alliance with a Roman Senator who was a member of the gens Pomponia that resulted in her marrying Pomponius Bassus.

In the year 221, Roman Emperor Elagabalus was induced to end his highly controversial and politically damaging marriage to the Vestal Virgin Aquilia Severa by high-ranking courtiers and senior camp generals, led by his grandmother Julia Maesa.

In its place he was advised to marry Annia Aurelia Faustina, to secure an alliance with the powerful clan represented by her blood connections to Marcus Aurelius (he was her great-grandfather) and the prior Nerva–Antonine dynasty.

[2] Due to the brevity of the marriage, there are no surviving sources describing Annia Aurelia Faustina's rule as a Roman empress.

When she died, her daughter Pomponia Ummidia inherited the estate, and her descendants had become various distinguished nobles and politicians in Roman Society.