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.

He was the widower of Vipsania Marcella, who was a daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and by his second wife Claudia Marcella Major, niece of Augustus.

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.

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.

* Roman coinage and additional information on Vipsania Agrippina can seen at

It is more probable that Ovid was somehow caught up in factional politics connected with the succession: Postumus Agrippa, Augustus ' adopted son, and Augustus ' granddaughter, Vipsania Julilla, were both relegated at around the same time.

However, it is generally believed that Marcella bore him a daughter, retrospectively called Vipsania Marcella, in order to differentiate her from her three half-sisters ).

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

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

* Vipsania Julia is exiled.

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

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

* Vipsania Agrippina, daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Pomponia Caecilia Attica ( d. AD 20 )

* Vipsania Julia Agrippina, daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder ( d. c. AD 28 )

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.

Daughter of the previous, a. k. a. Julia Caesaris minor ( or " the Younger "), a. k. a. Vipsania Julia.

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