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.

From Agrippa ’ s previous two marriages, Agrippina had two half-sisters: Vipsania Agrippina and Vipsania Marcella Agrippina.

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

Augustus had forced his first stepson Tiberius to end his happy first marriage to Vipsania Agrippina to marry Julia the Elder.

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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.

* Vipsania Agrippina, wife of Gaius Asinius Gallus and former wife of Tiberius ( b. 36 BC )

* Gaius Asinius Gallus, widower of Vipsania Agrippina and alleged lover of Agrippina the elder ( starvation )

* Vipsania Agrippina ( 36 BC – 20 ), daughter of Caecilia Attica and first wife of the Emperor Tiberius

* Vipsania Marcella Agrippina ( born 27 BC ), daughter of Claudia Marcella Major and first wife of general Publius Quinctilius Varus

* Julia the Younger or Vipsania Julia Agrippina ( 19 BC – 28 or early 29 ), daughter of Julia the Elder and wife of Lucius Aemilius Paullus

* Agrippina the Elder or Julia Vipsania Agrippina ( 14 BC – 33 ), daughter of Julia the Elder, wife of Germanicus and mother of Emperor Caligula

* Asinia Agrippina, a possible granddaughter of Vipsania Agrippina and possible second cousin to Agrippina the Younger

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.

About 14 BC he married Vipsania Marcella, the daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Claudia Marcella Major and became a personal friend of both Agrippa and Augustus.

In 11 BC he married Vipsania Agrippina, daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and his first wife Caecilia Attica, and the former wife of Tiberius.

This, and his sharp wit, combined with the fact that he had been married to Vipsania, earned Tiberius ' enmity.

In 20, he married Julia ( daughter of Drusus the Younger ), daughter of Livilla and Drusus " Castor " ( Tiberius ' only son by Vipsania ).

Other sources, however, make her only daughter by her first marriage Claudia Pulchra, born around 13 BC, who became the second wife of her distant cousin, Publius Quinctilius Varus after the death of his first wife, Vipsania Marcella, and following the death of her second husband she married Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus, by whom he had a son born in 12 BC named Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus-who was the father of Empress Messalina-and a daughter Valeria, who married Lucius Vipstanus Gallus, Praetor in 17, who died during his office, and by whom she had issue.

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.

Tiberius married Julia ( 11 BC ), but to do so he had to divorce Vipsania Agrippina ( daughter of a previous marriage of Agrippa ), the woman he dearly loved.

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.

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

* Marcus Asinius Agrippa, consul 25, died 26-see also Vipsania Agrippina

* Marcus Asinius Marcellus, consul 54-see Vipsania Agrippina

* Marcus Asinius Marcellus, the Younger, consul 104-son of Marcus Asinius Marcellus-See Vipsania Agrippina

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.

A formal adoption " in the family of the Caesars " among the offspring of Agrippa and Julia the Elder is however only recorded regarding Vipsania Julia's brothers Gaius — hence Gaius Caesar — and Lucius — hence Lucius Caesar.

Agrippa and Julia's marriage resulted in five children: Gaius Caesar, Vipsania Julia ( also known as Julia the Younger ), Lucius Caesar, Vipsania Agrippina or Agrippina the Elder ( mother of Emperor Caligula ), and Agrippa Postumus ( a posthumous son ).

Shortly after their arrival, their first child Gaius was born, and in 19 BC, Julia gave birth to Vipsania Julia.

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.

A descendant of Vipsania and Gallus, Pomponia Graecina, became a distinguished lady.

Vipsania and Gallus ' known sons were:

A descendant of Vipsania and Gallus, Pomponia Graecina, became a distinguished lady.

Vipsania Agrippina died in AD 20, a few days after the ovation of her son Drusus, which took place on 28 May.

Likewise, her eldest half-sisters, Vipsania Agrippina and Vipsania Marcella, were named after their father.

* Drusus Julius Caesar, son of Tiberius Claudius Nero and Vipsania Agrippina ( d. AD 23 )

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.

Augustus forced Tiberius to divorce Vipsania and marry Julia.

Tiberius reportedly loved Vipsania and disapproved of Julia.

On one occasion Tiberius caught sight of Vipsania and followed her with an intent and tearful gaze ( Suetonius, ibid .).

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

She was an aunt to Titus Servilius Pomponianus, Caecilia Attica and a great-aunt to Vipsania Agrippina ( first wife to future Roman Emperor Tiberius ).

Tiberius's second wife was Julia the Elder, Marcus Agrippa's widow ( his first wife had been Vipsania, Agrippa's daughter by his first marriage ); Caesar Augustus adopted Tiberius on June 26, 4, whereupon Tiberius himself adopted his brother Drusus's son by Mark Antony's daughter, Germanicus Julius Caesar.

He was also a father-in-law of Tiberius through Vipsania Agrippina, his daughter by Pomponia Caecilia Attica, and a father-in-law of Germanicus by Agrippina the Elder, his second daughter with Julia the Elder.