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Agrippina and Claudius married on New Year ’ s Day, 49.
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Agrippina and Claudius
Many ancient historians accuse Agrippina of poisoning Emperor Claudius, though accounts vary.
Through his mother Antonia Major, Domitius was a great nephew of Augustus, first cousin to Claudius, and second cousin to Agrippina and Caligula.
Claudius lifted the exiles of Agrippina and Livilla.
Around this time, Agrippina became the mistress to one of Claudius ’ advisers, the former Greek Freedman Marcus Antonius Pallas.
Pallas advised Claudius that he should marry Agrippina.
Pallas stated to the emperor that as Lucius was the grandson to Claudius's late brother Germanicus, by marrying Agrippina, Claudius would ally the two branches of the Claudian house and imperial family.
In more recent times, it has been suggested that the Senate may have pushed for the marriage between Agrippina and Claudius to end the feud between the Julian and Claudian branches.
In Roman society, an uncle ( Claudius ) marrying his niece ( Agrippina ) was considered incestuous, and obviously immoral.
In 49, shortly after marrying Claudius, Agrippina charged Paulina with black magic.
Roman aureus depicting Agrippina and Claudius, c. 50 / 54
On the day that Agrippina married her uncle Claudius as her third husband / his fourth wife, she became an Empress and the most powerful woman in the Roman Empire.
Also that year, Claudius had founded a Roman colony and called the colony Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensis or Agrippinensium, today known as Cologne, after Agrippina who was born there.
Agrippina successfully manipulated and influenced Claudius into adopting her son and having him become his successor.
Agrippina and Claudius betrothed Nero to Octavia, and Agrippina arranged to have Seneca the Younger return from exile to tutor the future emperor.
For instance, in 51, Agrippina ordered the execution of Britannicus ’ tutor Sosibius because he had confronted her and was outraged by Claudius ’ adoption of Nero and his choice of Nero as successor, instead of choosing his own son Britannicus.
Claudius later repented of marrying Agrippina and adopting Nero, began to favor Britannicus, and started preparing him for the throne.
His actions allegedly gave Agrippina a motive to eliminate Claudius.
Agrippina was named a priestess of the cult of the deified Claudius.
Some modern historians theorize that Nero's decision to kill Agrippina was prompted by her plotting to set Gaius Rubellius Plautus ( Nero's maternal second cousin ) or Britannicus ( Claudius ' biological son ) on the throne.
** Lucius Silanus was betrothed to Octavia, Claudius ’ daughter before his marriage of Agrippina.
I, Claudius 1976 Agrippina is played by Barbara Young
A Note on the Marriage of Claudius and Agrippina Classical Philology, Vol.
* Donna Hurley, Agrippina the Younger ( Wife of Claudius ).
Agrippina and married
Vipsania Agrippina later married senator and consul Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus after Tiberius was forced to divorce her and marry Julia the Elder.
Between 1 BC-5, Agrippina married her second maternal cousin Germanicus.
On one occasion, Galba's mother-in-law gave Agrippina, in a whole bevy of married women, a public reprimand and a slap in the face.
Silanus committed suicide on the day that Agrippina married her uncle, and Calvina was exiled from Italy in early 49.
Germanicus married his maternal second cousin Agrippina the Elder, a granddaughter of Augustus, between 5 and 1 BC.
Emperor Claudius, after executing his previous wife, married his brother's daughter Agrippina the Younger, and changed the law to allow an otherwise illegal union.
He married four times ( in order to ( 1 ) Plautia Urgulanilla, ( 2 ) Aelia Paetina, ( 3 ) Valeria Messalina, and finally ( 4 ) Agrippina the Younger ) and is referenced by Suetonius as being easily manipulated.
In order to gain political support, he married Agrippina and adopted his great-nephew Nero.
#* Antonia Minor, married Nero Claudius Drusus, the younger son of the Empress Livia Drusilla and brother of the Emperor Tiberius ; mother of the Emperor Claudius, grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger, and maternal great-grandmother of the emperor Nero.
In 49, Claudius married a fourth time, to Nero's mother Agrippina.
He was married to Agrippina the Elder, daughter of Julia the Elder ( Augustus's own daughter ) and Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.
* Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus ( PIR < sup > 2 </ sup > D 127 )-Consul in 32, he married his cousin Germanicus ' daughter Agrippina the Younger in AD 28.
The Emperor Claudius, uncle of Nero's mother, Agrippina the Younger, married his niece in 49 AD and therefore became Nero's stepfather.
Nero and Octavia themselves married in 53 AD, and Nero became emperor in 54 AD, after his great-uncle / stepfather died — apparently poisoned, in the belief of contemporary historians, by his niece / wife, Agrippina, Nero's mother.
In 20, Julia married her cousin Nero Caesar ( the son of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder ).
In 11 BC he married Vipsania Agrippina, daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and his first wife Caecilia Attica, and the former wife of Tiberius.
Domitius married his second cousin Agrippina the Younger, Caligula's sister, after her thirteenth birthday in 28.
His widow Agrippina later married her widowed uncle Claudius.
He committed suicide on New Year's Day, 49, the same day that Claudius and Agrippina married.
On one occasion Lepida ’ s mother gave Agrippina the Younger in a whole bevy of married women a public reprimand and slapped her in the face.
In CE 49, Agrippina, then married to Claudius, had Paulina charged with sorcery.
Passienus agreed and married later that year to Agrippina the Younger.
His daughter Aemilia Lepida married Drusus Caesar, a son of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder.
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