Germanicus was always favored by his great uncle and hoped that he would succeed Tiberius, who had been adopted by Augustus as his heir and successor.

Agrippina and Germanicus in their union had nine children, of whom three died young.

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.

Germanicus was a candidate for future succession and had won fame campaigning in Germania and Gaul.

Agrippina had reminded Germanicus on occasion of his relation to Augustus.

It was widely suspected that Germanicus had been poisoned or perhaps on the orders of Tiberius, with Agrippina believing he was assassinated.

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.

This feud dated back to Agrippina's mother's actions against Tiberius after the death of Germanicus, actions which Tiberius had gladly punished.

He had two older siblings named Germanicus and Livilla.

In order to do so, he dropped the cognomen " Nero " which he had adopted as paterfamilias of the Claudii Nerones when his brother Germanicus was adopted out.

This feud dated back to Agrippina's mother's actions against Tiberius after the death of her husband Germanicus ( Claudius's brother ), actions which Tiberius had gladly punished.

This was never proven, and Piso later died while facing trial ( ostensibly by suicide, but Tacitus supposes Tiberius may have had him murdered before he could implicate the emperor in Germanicus ' death ).

:: A. Germanicus, 16 BC or 15 BC – 19 AD, had 6 children

Vitellius was the first to add the honorific cognomen Germanicus to his name instead of Caesar upon his accession ; the latter name had fallen into disrepute in many quarters because of the actions of Nero.

They had two children, a son called Germanicus and a daughter whose name is unknown ( b. ca 55 ).

The city opened its gates to Corbulo, just as it had to Germanicus four decades before.

Meanwhile, Germanicus ' troops had built a fort on Mount Taunus from where he marched with about 30, 000 – 35, 000 men against the Chatti.

Germanicus ' campaign had been taken to avenge the Teutoburg slaughter and also partially in reaction to indications of mutinous intent amongst his troops.

He received the appellation ' Germanicus ' shortly after his death in recognition of the fact that the bulk of his territory had been in the former Germania.

Unlike the nomen and cognomen, an agnomen was usually not inherited unless the son also had the same attribute or did the same deeds, although some victory agnomina like Augustus (" Majestic ") and Germanicus (" the German ( Conqueror )") eventually became handed down as additional cognomina.

As Firmicus says that hardly any Roman except ' Caesar ' ( by whom he almost certainly means Germanicus Caesar rather than Julius Caesar ), Cicero and Fronto had treated the subject, it is probable that he did not know the work of Manilius.

Augustus seems to have had Tiberius adopt Germanicus as heir because of the latter's marriage to his granddaughter Agrippina ( the last of Augustus ' living grandchildren not in disgrace ) ensured that his own descendents ( through a female line ) would inherit one day-but not because of any secret blood relationship.

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.

As a boy of just two or three, Gaius accompanied his father, Germanicus, on campaigns in the north of Germania.

After a few more raids across the Rhine, which resulted in the recovery of two of the three legion's eagles lost in 9, Germanicus was recalled to Rome and informed by Tiberius that he would be given a triumph and reassigned to a different command.

Their children were Germanicus and Claudius, a daughter Livilla ( Little Livia ), and at least two others who did not survive infancy.

Livia plays an important role in two Marcus Corvinus mysteries by David Wishart, Ovid ( 1995 ) and Germanicus ( 1997 ).

Latin versions were made by none other than Cicero ( mostly extant ), Ovid ( only two short fragments remain ), the member of the imperial Julio-Claudian dynasty Germanicus ( extant, with scholia ), and the less-famous Avienus ( extant ).

While his adopted son Germanicus restored order in Germania, Tiberius ' biological son Drusus was sent to quell the uprising in Pannonia, accompanied by Sejanus and two Praetorian cohorts.

His siblings included two brothers Julius Caesar ( Caligula ) and Nero ( son of Germanicus ) | Nero and three sisters ( Julia Livilla, Julia Drusilla, and Agrippina the Younger ).

Messallinus suggested to Roman Emperor Tiberius an oath of allegiance should be sworn to him yearly ; he also suggested two golden statues be placed in two temples, in celebration of Rome's foreign victories and in memory of Germanicus, which Tiberius rejected.

If all this is true, then figure # 8 could still be one of two persons, Drusus or Germanicus.

She gave birth to two sons named Aulus Vitellius Germanicus ( who was the short lived Emperor in 69 ) and Lucius Vitellius.

Germanicus ’ father, Drusus the Elder, was the second son of the Empress Livia Drusilla by her first marriage to praetor Tiberius Nero, and was the Emperor Tiberius ’ s younger brother and Augustus ’ s stepson.

( Claudia ) Livia Julia ( Classical Latin: ) ( c. 13 BC – 31 A. D .) was the only daughter of Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor and elder sister of the Roman Emperor Claudius and younger sister of the general Germanicus, and thus the paternal aunt of the emperor Caligula and maternal great-aunt of emperor Nero.

After the death of her father, Germanicus, she and her siblings were brought back to Rome by their mother, and raised with the help of their paternal grandmother, Antonia Minor.

Claudius ( Latin: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ; 1 August 10 BC – 13 October AD 54 ) was Roman Emperor from 41 to 54.

By AD 100, the time of Tacitus's Germania, Germanic tribes settled along the Roman frontier at the Rhine and the Danube ( the Limes Germanicus ), occupying most of the area of modern Germany ; however, Austria, southern Bavaria, and the western Rhineland were Roman provinces.

* 17 – Germanicus returns to Rome as a conquering hero ; he celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti and other German tribes west of the Elbe.

Nero ( Latin: Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ; 15 December 37 – 9 June 68 ) was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

* Legions on the Rhine revolt after the death of Augustus ; Germanicus and Drusus put down the revolt.

Pompeius was the center of a literary circle to which Ovid belonged ; he was also an intimate friend of the most literary prince of the imperial family, Germanicus.

n. Germanicus Caesar, better known as Germanicus ; nephew of Tiberius ; consul in AD 12, he triumphed over the Pannonians and Dalmatians.

f. D. n. Germanicus, better known as Britannicus ; son of the emperor Claudius, he was poisoned by his stepbrother, Nero.

* 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.

Postumus represented himself as the restorer of Gaul ( Restitutor Galliarum ) and the bringer of security to the provinces ( Salus Provinciarum ) on some of his coins ; prior to 10 December, 261, he also took the title of Germanicus maximus, a title he earned after successfully defending Gaul against the Germans.

Other finds have been made in Poulton and Skippool ; in addition to coins, these have included a medal of Germanicus and a hipposandal ( similar to a horseshoe ).

In the same year, Germanicus died, making Drusus the new heir ; Germanicus ' wife Agrippina suspected Tiberius of having killed him to allow Drusus to become his heir, but this is unlikely.

Among his best-known plays are Le Mercure galant, the title of which was changed to La Comédie sans titre (" Play without a title ") ( 1683 ) when the publisher of the literary review of the same name objected ( see " Mercure de France "); La Princesse de Clêves ( 1676 ), an unsuccessful play which, when refurbished with fresh names by its author, succeeded as Germanicus ; Esope à la ville ( 1690 ); and Esope à la cour ( 1701 ). His lack of dramatic instinct could hardly be better indicated than by the scheme of his Esope, which allows the fabulist to come on the stage in each scene and recite a fable.

The gold coins were, one of Claudius Caesar, reverse Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus ; one of Nero and one of Vespasian.

Germanicus married Vipsania Agrippina, Agrippa's daughter by Julia and Tiberius's stepdaughter, and had by her one surviving son, Gaius " Caligula " (" Little Boots "), and a daughter, Julia Agrippina, whose second husband was Germanicus's brother by blood, Claudius ( she was his fourth wife ); Agrippina had already borne a son, Lucius, whom Claudius adopted under the name Nero in 40 ; Nero married Claudius's daughter Claudia Octavia in 53.