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Julio-Claudian family tree - Wikipedia
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The Great Cameo of France, from around 23 AD, pictures several members of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
Around the start of the Common Era, the family trees of the gens Julia and the gens Claudia became intertwined into the Julio-Claudian family tree as a result of marriages and adoptions.
1 Descendancy of the emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
2.1 Generation of Julius Caesar's grandfather
2.2 Generation of Julius Caesar's father
2.4 Generation of Julius Caesar's daughter
2.5 Generation of the Octavias
2.8 Agrippina the Elder's generation
2.9 Agrippina the Younger's generation
Descendancy of the emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty[edit]
See also: Julii Caesares § Descendancy, and Family tree of Roman emperors § 27 BC – AD 192
Sextus Julius Caesar II Postumus
Gaius Julius Caesar the Elder
1 Cornelia (wife of Caesar)
1 Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor
Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus (Gaius Octavius)
1 Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 32)
Gaius Julius Caesar I
Sextus Julius Caesar II Postumus
Gaius Julius Caesar II
Lucius Julius Caesar II
Gaius Julius Caesar the Elder
Lucius Julius Caesar III
Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus (Gaius Octavius)
Domitia Lepida the Younger
In the Julio-Claudian dynasty of Roman emperors the lineage of the Julii Caesares was separated from those of the Claudii up to Augustus' generation. The next generation had both Claudii with a Julia as ancestor, as Claudii adopted into the Julii Caesares family. After Tiberius, the remaining three emperors of the dynasty had, outside adoptions, ancestors both in the Julian as the Claudian families.
Generation of Julius Caesar's grandfather[edit]
Gaius Julius Caesar II and Lucius Julius Caesar II may have had Sextus Julius Caesar, the military tribune of 181 BC, as a common ancestor.[1]
Gaius Julius Caesar II
Lucius Julius Caesar II
Gaius Julius Caesar the Elder
Sextus Julius Caesar III
Lucius Julius Caesar III
Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus
Generation of Julius Caesar's father[edit]
This generation of Julii Caesares has two consuls: Sextus Julius Caesar III in 91 BC, and Lucius Julius Caesar III the next year.[1] This generation has also two female descendants very close to the centers of power by their marriages: Julia, the daughter Gaius Julius Caesar II was married to seven-times consul Gaius Marius, while Julia, the daughter of Lucius Julius Caesar II was married to the two-times consul and Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla, who had successfully challenged Marius' power.[7] For ensuing generations, Gaius Julius Caesar the Elder, married to a consul's daughter, and Lucius Julius Caesar III proved to be quintessential ancestors of those who held Imperial power in the Julio-Claudian dynasty.[1]
Gaius Julius Caesar II
Gaius Julius Caesar II
Gaius Julius Caesar II
Lucius Julius Caesar II
Lucius Julius Caesar II
Lucius Julius Caesar II
Lucius Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus
Gaius Julius Caesar the Elder
Sextus Julius Caesar III
Lucius Julius Caesar III
Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus
Julia possibly identical to Ilia a.k.a. Julia Cornelia 1
4 Caecilia Metella Dalmatica
Gaius Marius the Younger
Lucius Julius Caesar IV
Following Sulla's example Julius Caesar's and Pompey's first marriages were with women of their own generation, later marrying women of a younger generation. After being betrothed to Cossutia, Julius Caesar's first wife was Cornelia, the mother of Julia.[2] The younger of Caesar's two sisters married Marcus Atius: they were ancestors of all the Julio-Claudian emperors, apart from Tiberius.[1][4][5]
This is also the generation of Mark Antony's parents. Mark Antony's mother Julia Antonia was the daughter of Lucius Julius Caesar III: she was an ancestor of the last three emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.[4][5]
Gaius Julius Caesar the Elder
Gaius Julius Caesar the Elder
Quintus Mucius Scaevola Pontifex
Sextus Julius Caesar III (or his son)
Lucius Julius Caesar III
Lucius Julius Caesar III
Gaius Marius the Younger 1
Sextus Julius Caesar IV
Lucius Julius Caesar IV
Marcus Antonius Creticus 1
2 Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura
Lucius Julius Caesar V
Generation of Julius Caesar's daughter[edit]
By this time marriages with a political agenda among the powerful families were in full swing, however not yet between Julii Caesares and Claudii. Pompey married Julius Caesar's daughter Julia. Julius Caesar's second wife Pompeia, possibly a great-granddaughter of Lucius Julius Caesar II, was a granddaughter of Sulla. His third wife Calpurnia is said to be younger than his daughter. His son Caesarion resulted from his relation with Cleopatra.[1]
Atia Balba Caesonia, the daughter of Julius Caesar's sister, married Gaius Octavius: they became the parents of the first emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, then still called Octavianus. Their daughter Octavia the Younger became an ancestor to the last three emperors of that dynasty. In this generation Mark Antony had children by, among others, Antonia Hybrida Minor, and Fulvia.[4][5]
Gaius Julius Caesar the Elder
Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus
2 Atia Balba Caesonia
Faustus Cornelius Sulla 1
Antonia Hybrida Minor 2
1 Publius Clodius Pulcher
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica
Generation of the Octavias[edit]
The Claudii were a powerful gens with consuls and other high ranking politicians in several of its families across several generations. In this generation the first marriages between Claudii and descendants of the Julii Caesares took place. This however didn't mean yet that the dynastic family trees of both gentes got merged into a single one: that didn't happen until the adoption of Claudii by (adopted) Julii Caesares in the generations to come.
Octavia the Younger's first husband was a Claudius from the Marcelli family. Clodia Pulchra, descending from Claudii, became the first wife of Octavian, who by then was adopted in the Julii Caesares family by the testament of his uncle Julius Caesar. After her first husband's death, Octavia married Mark Antony, who besides the offspring of his first three marriages had had children by Cleopatra.
Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor 1
2 Lucius Cornelius Cinna
Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna Magnus
Quintus Caecilius Pomponianus Atticus
Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor
Publius Cornelius Scipio 2
Octavia the Younger 4
Pomponia Caecilia Attica 1
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa 1
2 Claudia Marcella Major
Octavianus, becoming Augustus the first Roman emperor, married Scribonia who gave him a daughter (Julia the Elder). His last marriage was with Livia, a Claudia who had been married to a Claudius. Their son Tiberius, by birth a Claudius, was later adopted by Augustus, thus, like his stepfather Augustus, becoming one of the Julii Caesares by adoption.
Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor
Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor
Drusus Claudius Nero I
Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus
Octavii (by birth) - Julii Caesares (by adoption)
2 Sextus Appuleius 3
2 Claudia Marcella Major
Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus 1
2 Claudia Marcella Minor
2 Marcus Valerius Messalla Appianus
Tiberius Claudius Nero 1
Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus
Domitia Lepida the Elder
Domitia Lepida the Younger
Antonia Minor's husband Nero Claudius Drusus, a.k.a. Drusus the Elder, was a Claudian like his brother emperor Tiberius: they were the sons of Tiberius Claudius Nero, the praetor of 42 BC.
Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor
Marcus Valerius Messalla Appianus
Marcus Claudius Marcellus 1
Julia the Elder 3
2 Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus 1
Domitia Lepida the Younger
Domitia Lepida the Elder
1 Decimus Haterius Agrippa
Agrippina the Elder's generation[edit]
Without son, Augustus had adopted his grandsons (by his only daughter Julia) Gaius, Lucius and Postumus, and his stepson Tiberius, in order to ensure an heir and successor. Around the time of his death only Tiberius remained and he became the next emperor. Tiberius, a Claudius by birth had become one of the Julii Caesares by adoption: from this moment this first dynasty of Roman emperors was both Julian and Claudian. The further emperors of this dynasty had both Julian and Claudian ancestors.
Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus
2 Julia the Elder
2 Drusus the Younger
Agrippina the Younger's generation[edit]
Caligula was the last emperor adopted into the family of the Julii Caesares. He was a Claudius by descendance, although he had Julii Caesares among his ancestors, both from his mother's as his father's side.
2 Livia Orestilla 1
1 Gaius Calpurnius Piso
Lucius Cassius Longinus 1
2 Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
Most marriages remained childless and many potential successors in the dynasty were eliminated after rampant accusations.
Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi
Faustus Cornelius Sulla Lucullus III
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus 1
Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus 1
2 Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix
Publius Memmius Regulus 1
Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus
Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus
Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus
Claudius, the fourth emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, was a brother to Caligula's father Germanicus. He belonged to the gens Claudia with, from his mother's side, Julian ancestors.
Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus
Domitia Lepida the Elder 1
2 Gaius Sallustius Crispus Passienus 2
2 Agrippina the Younger 4
Nero, the last emperor of the dynasty, was by birth a Domitius with as well Julian ancestors (from both his mother's as his father's side), as Claudian (from his mother's side). He became a Claudian himself, by adoption by his stepfather emperor Claudius, a brother to his grandfather from his mother's side, or, from his father's side, a son of his grandmother's sister.
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^ a b Napoleon III 1865, Vol. 1 p. 253
^ Wurts 1945, Vol. 4 p. 627
^ a b c d e f Meijer 1990, pp. 511/532/576-577
^ a b c d e f Kamm 2006, pp. 156-157
^ Griffin 2009, p. 13 ff.
^ Plutarch. "Life of Sulla" in Parallel Lives
Miriam Griffin. A Companion to Julius Caesar, p. 13 ff. John Wiley & Sons, 2009. ISBN 1444308459 ISBN 9781444308457 (Julius Caesar's descendancy)
Antony Kamm Julius Caesar: A Life, pp. 156 (Genealogical chart of the family of Julius Caesar) and 157 (Simplified genealogical chart of the emperors from Augustus to Nero). Routledge, 2006. ISBN 1134220332 ISBN 9781134220335
J. W. Meijer (translator) Tacitus: Jaarboeken (Ab excessu divi Augusti Annales). Ambo, 1990. ISBN 902631065X ISBN 9789026310652 – pp. 511 (Julia the Elder's family tree), 532 (Tiberius' family tree), 576–577 (from Gaius Julius Caesar the Elder to Nero)
Napoleon III. Histoire de Jules César Volume 1, p. 253 Paris: H. Plon 1865 (Julius Caesar's family tree)
William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1870. Volume 1 p. 536 ff. (Julii Caesares up to the generation before the adoptions started)
John S. Wurts. Magna Charta. Brookfield Publishing Company, 1945. Vol. 4 p. 627 (ordinals for the Julii Caesares with the same praenomen)
Sextus Julius I Caesar Proconsul of Sicily (and subsequent pages) at homepages .rpi .edu /~holmes /
"The Stemma of the Julio-Claudian Emperors" by R. Scott Moore at www .roman-emperors .org
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