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.

Some scholars have speculated that he may have been a widower since he was a Pharisee and member of the Sanhedrin, positions in which the social norm of the day required the men to be married.

While tormented with sorrow, sixteen-year-old Catherine was now faced with her parents ' wish that she marry Bonaventura's widower.

Several women who were not presidents ' wives have served as First Lady, as when the president was a bachelor or widower, or when the wife of the president was unable to fulfill the duties of the First Lady herself.

Coleman was cast in the role of Arnold Jackson in the television sitcom Diff ' rent Strokes, portraying one of two young black brothers adopted by a wealthy white widower in Manhattan.

For example, the question of the legality and morality of a widower who wished to marry his deceased wife's sister was the subject of long and fierce debate in the United Kingdom in the 19th century, involving, among others, Matthew Boulton.

Andriessen, a widower, was married to guitarist Jeanette Yanikian ( 1935 – 2008 ).

At the time of his last stand against the Lancastrians, Richard was a widower without a legitimate son.

Guy was the widower of his father's cousin Sibylla of Jerusalem and was trying to retain the kingship of Jerusalem, despite his wife's death during the Siege of Acre the previous year.

Her only marriage was to Kim Anderson, the widower of her friend Robin Anderson, soon after Robin died of leukemia while Bella Donna was on the top of the charts.

The marriage was unusual because he was a widower of fifty, while the bride was only seventeen.

Gifts or promises had won the support of the Rhenish and Swabian towns ; a marriage alliance secured the friendship of the Habsburgs ; and an alliance with Rudolf II of Bavaria, Count Palatine of the Rhine, was obtained when Charles, who had become a widower in 1348, married his daughter Anna.

The former was a blockbuster success about a widower who finds true love over the airwaves.

Pliny the Younger married three times, firstly when he was very young, about eighteen, to a stepdaughter of Veccius Proculus, of whom he became a widower at age 37, secondly to the daughter of Pompeia Celerina, at an unknown date and thirdly to Calpurnia, daughter of Calpurnius and granddaughter of Calpurnus Fabatus of Comum.

A cabin on Mulberry Row was, for a time, the home of Sally Hemings, the household slave who is widely believed to have had a 38-year relationship with the widower Jefferson and to have borne six children by him, four of whom survived to adulthood.

At the time of becoming Prime Minister in December of that year, McEwen was a widower, being the first Australian Prime Minister unmarried during his term of office.

The pact was sealed by marriage of the then widower Bolesław III with the sister of the wife of Vladislaus I, Salomea of Berg.

Although he was Caesar's political enemy, Pompey was a Roman consul and the widower of Caesar's only legitimate daughter, Julia ( who died in childbirth with Pompey's son ).

He was a widower with two children when he was elected to succeed Pope Simplicius in 483.

Vipsania Agrippina or most commonly known as Agrippina Major or Agrippina the Elder ( Major Latin for the elder, Classical Latin:, 14 BC – 17 October 33 ) was a distinguished and prominent Roman woman of the first century AD.

Vipsania Agrippina was Agrippa ’ s first daughter and first child from his first marriage to Pomponia Caecilia Attica.

Vipsania Agrippina later married senator and consul Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus after Tiberius was forced to divorce her and marry Julia the Elder.

Vipsania Marcella was Agrippa ’ s second child from his second marriage to Augustus ’ first niece and the paternal cousin of Julia the Elder, Claudia Marcella Major.

Vipsania Marcella was the first wife of the general Publius Quinctilius Varus.

Agrippa died in 12 BC, and Tiberius was ordered by Augustus to divorce his wife Vipsania Agrippina and marry his stepsister, the twice-widowed Julia.

Due to his devotion to her, Messalina was able to manipulate Claudius into ordering the exile or execution of various people: the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger ; Claudius ’ nieces Julia Livilla and Julia ; Marcus Vinicius ( husband of Julia Livilla ); consul Gaius Asinius Pollio II ( see Vipsania Agrippina ); the elder Poppaea Sabina ( mother of Empress Poppaea Sabina, second wife of Nero ); consul Decimus Valerius Asiaticus ; and Polybius.

It would be interesting to know her role in this, as well as in Tiberius ' divorce of Vipsania Agrippina in 12 BC at Augustus ' insistence: whether it was merely neutral or passive, or whether she actively colluded in Caesar's wishes.

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.

The son Gallus and Vipsania had several sons together, of whom two were full consuls and a third was consul suffect.

Vipsania Marcella was a grandniece of Augustus.

Nero Claudius Drusus, later Drusus Julius Caesar ( adoptive name ; 13 BC – 14 September 23 AD ) was the only child of Roman Emperor Tiberius and his first wife, Vipsania Agrippina.

Through his great-grandmothers Vipsania Agrippina and Antonia Minor, he was also descended from Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Mark Antony but not from Augustus.

Asinius Gallus never denied his paternity of the son of Tiberius and Vipsania, Julius Caesar Drusus, heir from 19 AD to 23 AD, which means that he might also have been the father of the child Vipsania was expecting on her divorce.

Vipsania Agrippina ( 36 BC-20 AD ) was the daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa from his first wife Pomponia Caecilia Attica, granddaughter of Cicero's friend and knight Titus Pomponius Atticus.

Vipsania was at the time pregnant, and from the shock lost the baby.

Tacitus states that Vipsania was the only one of Agrippa's children to die without violence.

Vipsania Marcella Agrippina or Marcellina ( born 27 BC ) was the only daughter to Roman statesman Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa from his second wife Claudia Marcella Major.

He was replaced as heir by Julius Caesar Drusus, son of Tiberius and his first wife Vipsania Agrippina.

Caecilia Attica's and Agrippa's daughter Vipsania Agrippina was born in 36 BC.

Julia the Younger ( 19 BC-c. AD 29 ) ( Classical Latin: ) or Julilla ( little Julia ), Vipsania Julia Agrippina, Iulilla, Julia, Augustus ' granddaughter, or Julia Caesaris Minor, was a Roman noblewoman of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

Julia the Younger was not a Julia Caesaris by birth: being the daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa made her a Vipsania Agrippina by birth, although there are no contemporary sources that show that that name was ever used for her.