11/8/2023 0 Comments Julius caesar wife and kidsMessalina considered her and her son a threat to the throne. Īround 43, an agent of the Roman Emperor Claudius' wife, Empress Valeria Messalina, had falsely charged Julia with incest and immorality. Julia also had a daughter or step-daughter Rubellia Bassa who married a maternal uncle of the future Roman Emperor Nerva. They had at least one child, Rubellius Plautus, Juvenal, in Satire VIII.39, suggests another son, also named Gaius Rubellius Blandus and an inscription implies Julia was probably the mother of Rubellius Drusus, a child who died before the age of three. Despite that Blandus had been consul suffect in 18, the match was considered a disaster Tacitus includes the event in a list of "the many sorrows which saddened Rome", which otherwise consisted of deaths of different influential people. In 33, Julia married Gaius Rubellius Blandus, a man from an equestrian background. His lover, Julia's mother Livilla, died around the same time (probably starved by her own mother: Julia's grandmother Antonia, or committed suicide). Sejanus was condemned and executed on Tiberius’ orders on 18 October 31. Cassius Dio records that Julia was now engaged to Sejanus, but this claim appears to be contradicted by Tacitus, whose authority is to be preferred. The following year he was executed or driven to suicide. Nero was incarcerated on the island of Pontia ( Ponza). Nero was declared a public enemy by the Senate and taken away in chains in a closed litter. Later in 29, owing to the intrigues of Sejanus, and at the insistence of Tiberius, Nero and Agrippina were accused of treason. Every night had its anxieties, for his sleepless hours, his dreams and sighs were all made known by his wife to her mother Livia and by Livia to Sejanus. Whether the young prince spoke or held his tongue, silence and speech were alike criminal. The marriage appears to have been an unhappy one, and fell victim to the machinations of the notorious palace guardsman Sejanus, who exploited his intimacy with Julia's mother Livilla to scheme against Germanicus’ family. It was during her grandfather's rule, when she was around the age of 16, that Julia married her cousin Nero Caesar (the son of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder). Upon the death of Augustus, Julia's paternal grandfather, Tiberius, succeeded him as Rome's second Emperor. Before he died, the aged emperor had asked his wife Livia whether Julia had recovered. At the time of Augustus' death in AD 14, Julia, who was in early childhood, fell ill. Julia was born in the later years of the reign of her adoptive great-grandfather, Emperor Augustus, and was the daughter of Drusus Julius Caesar (a grandson of Augustus wife' Livia Drusilla through her son Tiberius) and Livilla (a granddaughter of Livia Drusilla through her son Nero Claudius Drusus, and a granddaughter of Mark Antony through his daughter Antonia Minor). She was also a first cousin of the emperor Caligula, and niece of the emperor Claudius. Julia Livia (7 – 43 AD), was the daughter of Drusus Julius Caesar and Livilla, and granddaughter of the Roman Emperor Tiberius.
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