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Germanicus and was
Although Dio is the earliest writer to mention them, Ammianus Marcellinus used the name to refer to Germans on the Limes Germanicus in the time of Trajan's governorship of the province shortly after it was formed, circa 98 / 99.
Agrippina was the wife of the general and statesman Germanicus and a relative to the first Roman Emperors.
Germanicus was the first son born to Antonia Minor and Nero Claudius Drusus.
Germanicus was a popular general and politician.
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.
Germanicus was a candidate for future succession and had won fame campaigning in Germania and Gaul.
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.
She was unwise in her complaints about Germanicus ’ death to Tiberius.
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.
Her practice of accompanying Germanicus on campaigns was considered inappropriate, and her tendency to take command in these situations was viewed with suspicion as subversively masculine.
Agrippina was the first daughter and fourth living child of Agrippina the Elder and Germanicus.
Germanicus, Agrippina's father, was a very popular general and politician.
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.
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.
Lucius ’ name was changed to Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus and he became Claudius ’ s adopted son, heir and recognised successor.
Claudius ( Latin: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ; 1 August 10 BC – 13 October AD 54 ) was Roman Emperor from 41 to 54.
When the Arch of Pavia was erected to honor the Imperial clan in 8, Claudius ' name ( now Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus after his elevation to paterfamilias of Claudii Nerones on the adoption of his brother ) was inscribed on the edge — past the deceased princes, Gaius and Lucius, and Germanicus ' children.

Germanicus and great-uncle
Lastly, he was a paternal great-uncle of the Emperor Caligula, Julia's grandson by Agrippa, and the Empress Agrippina the Younger, Julia's eldest granddaughter, and Claudius's niece and fourth wife, as well as other children fathered by Germanicus and his wife Agrippina the Elder: Nero Caesar, Drusus Caesar, Julia Drusilla, and Julia Livilla.

Germanicus and Augustus
Augustus ordered Tiberius to adopt Germanicus as his son and heir.
Agrippina had reminded Germanicus on occasion of his relation to Augustus.
In the year 9, Augustus ordered and forced Tiberius to adopt Germanicus, who happened to be Tiberius's nephew, as his son and heir.
Nero was more popular with the general public as the grandson of Germanicus and the direct descendant of Augustus.
As judged by the carved titles of Caesar, Augustus and Germanicus, the related march took place between 84 AD and 96 AD.
Germanicus was the grandson-in-law and great-nephew of the Emperor Augustus, nephew and adoptive son of the Emperor Tiberius, father of the Emperor Caligula, brother of the Emperor Claudius, and the maternal grandfather of the Emperor Nero.
Germanicus married his maternal second cousin Agrippina the Elder, a granddaughter of Augustus, between 5 and 1 BC.
However, Augustus compelled Tiberius to adopt Germanicus as a son and to name him as his heir ( see Tacitus, Annals IV. 57 ).
After the death of Augustus in 14, the Senate appointed Germanicus commander of the forces in Germania.
After Tiberius ' adoption by Augustus, Tiberius was required to adopt Germanicus, thus giving the Julius nomen to the members of Caligula's family.
He stayed true to Augustus ’ s plans for the succession and favored his adopted son Germanicus over his natural son, Drusus, as did the Roman populace.
Thus, on the death of Tiberius, his adopted son, Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, ascended to the throne.
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.
Claudius died in 54 and Nero, taking the name Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, was established as Emperor.
* Legions on the Rhine revolt after the death of Augustus ; Germanicus and Drusus put down the revolt.
* Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( Caligula ) and Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo become Roman consuls.
This campaign, led by Tiberius and Quaestor Legatus Germanicus under Emperor Augustus, was one of the hardest and most critical for the Roman Empire.
In 14 CE, just after Augustus ' death and the accession of his heir and stepson Tiberius, a massive raid was conducted by the new emperor's nephew Germanicus.
Gibbon proposed a period of moderation under Augustus and his successors and argued that generals bent on expansion ( e. g. Germanicus, Agricola and Corbulo ) were checked and recalled by the Emperors during their victories favouring consolidation ahead of further expansion.
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.

Germanicus 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.
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.
The first Batavi commander we know of is named Chariovalda, who led a charge across the Visurgin ( Weser ) against the Cherusci led by Arminius during the campaigns of Germanicus in Germania Transrhenana.
Suetonius claims that Germanicus was poisoned in Syria by an agent of Tiberius, who viewed Germanicus as a political rival.
Germanicus became immensely popular among the citizens of Rome, who enthusiastically celebrated his military victories.
Robert Graves, in his historical novel I, Claudius, blames the death of Germanicus on Plancina, the wife of Piso, who engaged a witch named Martina to haunt Germanicus ' household.
In Graves ' version, Plancina begins to place curses on Germanicus, who is extremely superstitious.
* Germanicus leads a brutal raid against the Marsi, a German tribe on the upper Ruhr river, who are massacred.
Their children were Germanicus and Claudius, a daughter Livilla ( Little Livia ), and at least two others who did not survive infancy.
He apparently considered adopting Germanicus, but chose to adopt the much older Tiberius, who was definitely not related by blood, and invested him with the powers of the principate.
The historians Tacitus and Cassius Dio depict an overweening, even domineering dowager, ready to interfere in Tiberius ’ decisions, the most notable instances being the case of Urgulania ( grandmother of Claudius's first wife Plautia Urgulanilla ), a woman who correctly assumed that her friendship with the empress placed her above the law, and Munatia Plancina, suspected of murdering Germanicus and saved at Livia's entreaty.
Germanicus was very popular among the citizens of Rome, who enthusiastically celebrated all his victories.
Germanicus himself managed to survive by reaching the lands of the Chauci, who provided him with a safe haven.
Some Roman sources of the period suggest that Tiberius gave Piso secret instructions to thwart and control Germanicus, who had been sent to supervise all Eastern provinces.
* 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.
Otho was then defeated by Aulus Vitellius who acceded with the name " Aulus Vitellius Germanicus Imperator Augustus.

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