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Agrippina and Germanicus in their union had nine children, of whom three died young.
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Agrippina and Germanicus
Agrippina was the wife of the general and statesman Germanicus and a relative to the first Roman Emperors.
Between 1 BC-5, Agrippina married her second maternal cousin Germanicus.
Agrippina and Germanicus were devoted to each other.
The six children who survived to adulthood were the sons: Nero Caesar, Drusus Caesar and Caligula born as Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus and the daughters Julia Agrippina or Agrippina the Younger, Julia Drusilla and Julia Livilla.
According to Suetonius who had cited from Pliny the Elder, Agrippina had borne to Germanicus, a son called Gaius Julius Caesar who had a lovable character.
During the military campaigns, Agrippina accompanied Germanicus with their children.
Agrippina had reminded Germanicus on occasion of his relation to Augustus.
Agrippina landing at Brundisium with the ashes of Germanicus, ( 1768, Benjamin West, oil on canvas ). In art, Agrippina has served as a symbol of marital devotion and fidelity.
Agrippina and Germanicus travelled to the Middle East in 19, incurring the displeasure of Tiberius.
It was widely suspected that Germanicus had been poisoned or perhaps on the orders of Tiberius, with Agrippina believing he was assassinated.
Agrippina was in grief when Germanicus died.
A second memoir was about the fortunes of her mother ’ s family and the last memoir recorded the misfortunes ( casus suorum ) of the family of Agrippina and Germanicus.
Agrippina was the first daughter and fourth living child of Agrippina the Elder and Germanicus.
Germanicus ’ death in the year 19 caused much public grief in Rome, and gave rise to rumors that he had been murdered by Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso and Munatia Plancina on the orders of Tiberius, as his widow Agrippina the Elder returned to Rome with his ashes.
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.
When Germanicus died at Antioch in 19 AD, his wife Agrippina the Elder returned to Rome with her six children where she became entangled in an increasingly bitter feud with Tiberius.
Caligula was born in Antium, the third of six surviving children born to Germanicus and Germanicus ' second cousin Agrippina the Elder.
Germanicus married his maternal second cousin Agrippina the Elder, a granddaughter of Augustus, between 5 and 1 BC.
Through Agrippina the Younger, Germanicus was maternal grandfather of the Emperor Nero.
Benjamin West, Agrippina landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus, Oil on canvas, c. 1768.
Agrippina and their
Agrippina and her younger sisters Julia Drusilla and Julia Livilla received various honors from their brother, which included but were not limited to:
Agrippina and Domitius named their son Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, after the Domitius ' recently deceased father.
In 39, Agrippina and Livilla, with their maternal cousin, Drusilla's widower Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, were involved in a failed plot to murder Caligula, a plot known as the Plot of the Three Daggers, which was to make Lepidus the new emperor.
Agrippina and Livilla were exiled by their brother to the Pontine Islands.
" Agrippina struck down a series of victims ; no man or woman was safe if she suspected rivalry or desired their wealth.
Nero's mother was Agrippina the Younger, a great-granddaughter of Caesar Augustus and his wife Scribonia through their daughter Julia the Elder and her husband Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.
Following his death, his wife Agrippina the Elder returned to Rome with their six children and became increasingly involved with a group of senators who opposed the growing power of Sejanus.
Livia Drusilla, Valeria Messalina, and Agrippina the Younger clearly function as the powers behind their husbands, lovers, fathers, brothers, sons and / or daughters.
Agrippina and Livilla were exiled, and returned from exile only when their paternal uncle Claudius came to power after Caligula's assassination in 41 AD.
Two of his sisters, Agrippina the Younger ( mother of the emperor Nero ) and Julia Livilla were exiled to Ponza in AD 39 for their complicity in a plot to overthrow Caligula.
Meanwhile, her widowed husband Marcus Amelius Lepidus reportedly became a lover to her sisters Livilla and Agrippina the Younger in an apparent attempt to gain their support in succeeding Caligula.
Nero murdered their son, reportedly because Agrippina the Younger, mother of Nero, was in love with him and encouraged him to bid for the throne.
Nero murdered their son, reportedly because Agrippina the Younger, mother of Nero, was in love with him and encouraged him to bid for the throne.
They raised their nephew Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus, whose father was murdered by Empress Agrippina the Younger.
Her younnger sister Agrippina the Elder and youngest full brother, Agrippa Postumus, were named after their natural father.
Likewise, her eldest half-sisters, Vipsania Agrippina and Vipsania Marcella, were named after their father.
Livilla and her sister Agrippina the Younger were banished to the Pontine Islands ( they were most likely separated in their exile and each one sent to a different island ).
Due to their friendship with Agrippina they became innocent victims of Sejanus ' treason trials.
Antonia Agrippina may have been a daughter from their son's marriage ( this name was graffiti in a Royal Tomb in Egypt ).
Agrippina and union
According to Suetonius, Caligula nursed a rumor that Augustus and Julia the Elder had an incestuous union from which Agrippina the Elder had been born.
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.
Hence, Caligula invented the idea that his mother Agrippina was the product of an incestuous union between Julia and Augustus.
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