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Agrippina removed or eliminated anyone from the palace or the imperial court who she thought was loyal and dedicated to the memory of the late Messalina.
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He was the leader of the Praetorian Guard during the first ten years of the reign of the Emperor Claudius, until 51, when Claudius's new wife Agrippina the Younger removed him from this position.
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Agrippina ’ s mother Julia was the only natural child born to Augustus from his second marriage to noblewoman Scribonia.
Vipsania Agrippina was Agrippa ’ s first daughter and first child from his first marriage to Pomponia Caecilia Attica.
Augustus made her record any daily activities she did in the imperial day book and the emperor took severe measures in preventing Agrippina from forming friendships, without his consent.
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.
After the Circus Games, Caligula ordered written evidence of the court cases from Tiberius ’ treason trials to be brought to the Forum to be burnt, first being the cases of Agrippina and her two sons.
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.
Throughout her life, Agrippina always prized her descent from Augustus, upbraiding Tiberius for persecuting the blood of his predecessor ; Tacitus, in writing of the occasion, believed this behaviour to be part of the beginning of " the chain of events leading to Agrippina's end.
Agrippina was the first Roman matron to have more than one child from her family to reign on the Roman throne.
Maternally, Agrippina descended directly from Augustus.
Agrippina the Younger was thereafter supervised by her mother, her paternal grandmother Antonia Minor, and her great-grandmother, Livia, all of them notable, influential, and powerful figures from whom she learnt how to survive.
Agrippina and her younger sisters Julia Drusilla and Julia Livilla received various honors from their brother, which included but were not limited to:
Although Agrippina was very influential, she kept a very low profile and stayed away from the imperial palace and the court of the emperor.
Agrippina and Lucius received greater applause from the audience than Messalina and Britannicus did.
Silanus committed suicide on the day that Agrippina married her uncle, and Calvina was exiled from Italy in early 49.
Calvina was called back from exile after the death of Agrippina.
Agrippina and Claudius betrothed Nero to Octavia, and Agrippina arranged to have Seneca the Younger return from exile to tutor the future emperor.
Agrippina deprived Britannicus of his heritage and further isolated him from his father and succession for the throne in every way possible.
Towards 57, Agrippina was expelled from the palace and went to live in a riverside estate in Misenum.
With the reasoning that a divorce from Octavia and a marriage to Poppaea was not politically feasible with Agrippina alive, Nero decided to kill Agrippina.
The boat failed to sink from the lead ceiling, so the crew then sank the boat, but Agrippina swam to shore.
When the news spread that Agrippina had died, the Roman army, senate and various people sent him letters of congratulations that he had been saved from his mother's plots.
Claudius allowed Agrippina to return from exile.
Agrippina and palace
Tiberius carefully staged to invite Agrippina to dinner at the imperial palace.
In 55, Agrippina was forced out of the palace by her son to live in imperial residence.
* Agrippina the Younger is expelled from the imperial palace by her son Nero, who installs her in Villa Antonia in Misenum.
Agrippina and imperial
As a member of the imperial family, Agrippina was expected to display frugality, chastity and domesticity, all traditional virtues for a noble Roman woman.
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 50, Agrippina was granted the honorific title of Augusta, a title which, up until this point, no other imperial woman had ever received in the lifetime of her husband.
Tigellinus gained imperial favour through his acquaintance with Nero's mother Agrippina the Younger, and was appointed prefect upon the death of his predecessor Sextus Afranius Burrus, a position Tigellinus held first with Faenius Rufus and then Nymphidius Sabinus.
The imperial heir Saloninus and the praetorian prefect Silvanus remained at Colonia Agrippina ( Cologne ), to keep the young heir out of danger and perhaps also as a control on Postumus ' ambitions.
Indeed, Agrippina fared much better in producing imperial heirs to the household ( being the mother of the Emperor Caligula and Agrippina the Younger ) and was much more popular.
Agrippina and court
Porpora's first opera, Agrippina, was successfully performed at the Neapolitan court in 1708.
She seemed to have enjoyed a rather wild life at the court of Caligula and according to Suetonius, she, along with Agrippina, allowed herself to be prostituted by her brother to his catamites.
Agrippina and who
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.
Agrippina became involved in a group of Roman Senators who opposed the growing power and influence of the notorious Praetorian Guard Lucius Aelius Sejanus.
Agrippina is regarded in ancient and modern historical sources as a Roman Matron with a reputation as a great woman, who had an excellent character and had outstanding Roman morals.
Agrippina the Elder was remembered as a modest and heroic matron, who was the second daughter and fourth child of Julia the Elder and the statesman Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.
After the death of her first husband, Agrippina tried to make shameless advances to the future emperor Galba, who showed no interest in her and was devoted to his wife Aemilia Lepida.
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.
Though the collapsing ceiling missed Agrippina, it crushed her attendant who was outside by the helm.
Agrippina was banished by Caligula for her connection to Marcus Lepidus, who conspired against Caligula.
* Osinia Agrippina, a noble woman who descended from Julius or Iulius Capitolinus, who was one of the biographers of the Augustan History
* Church of Saint Agrippina, a Catholic church founded in Mineo and named after Saint Agrippina of Mineo, who is the patron Saint of the town
Married to Quinctia, daughter of Lucius Quinctius, who was executed in 43 BC, Pollio is also notable as the father of Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus, the second husband of Vipsania Agrippina, daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Augustus's partner, second-in-command and second son-in-law.
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.
In 50 AD, Agrippina the Younger, wife of the Emperor Claudius, who was born in Cologne, asked for her home village to be elevated to the status of a colonia — a city under Roman law.
1st century ), probably the son of the conqueror of Britain, and allegedly the lover of Agrippina the younger, who was murdered by Agrippina's son Nero.
In Ancient Rome, it was used as a poison by Agrippina the Younger, wife of Emperor Claudius, and Livia, who is rumored to have used it to kill her husband Emperor Augustus.
* Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, better known as the emperor Nero, who reigned from AD 54 to 68 ; he was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus to Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina the Younger, but was adopted by the emperor Claudius in AD 50.
A colony for Roman veterans was founded in 50 AD under the patronage of Agrippa ’ s granddaughter, Agrippina the Younger, who herself had been born at Ara Ubiorum, the capital of the Ubii.
The third freedman, Marcus Antonius Pallas, recommended Claudius ' niece and Caligula's sister Agrippina the Younger, who also had a child from a previous marriage, in this case, the future Emperor Nero.
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