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Aemilia Lepida |
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Female |
| Death |
Yes, date unknown |
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- «b»http://www.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy/ps11/ps11_183.htm«/b»
This connection and the daughter are rather questionable. Some say there was a marriage contract (in 5AD) but is was called off.
«b»http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aemilia_Lepida_(fiancee_of_Claudius)
Aemilia Lepida«/b» (5 BC-53) was a noble Roman woman and matron. She was the eldest daughter and first born child of «u»Julia the Younger «/u» (the first granddaughter of the Emperor «u»Augustus «/u») and consul «u»Lucius Aemilius Paullus «/u». Her father was of a distinguished and ancient patrician family. She was the first great-grandchild of Emperor Augustus, noble woman «u»Scribonia «/u» and a great-grandchild of consul «u»Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus «/u» (brother of the triumvir «u»Marcus Aemilius Lepidus «/u»). Aemilia Lepida had a younger brother named «u»Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (6-39) «/u» who was married to Caligula's favorite sister «u»Drusilla «/u» and who died in Caligula's reign.
In her younger years, Lepida was betrothed to «u»Claudius «/u», but her parents fell out of favour with Augustus so the emperor broke off the engagement. In 8, her mother «u»Julia the Younger «/u» (otherwise called Vipsania Julia) was exiled for adultery, like her mother Julia. Her father Lucius was executed in 14 for participating in a conspiracy against Augustus.
Lepida married by 13 Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus, a member of «u»the patrician branch «/u» of the ancient gens Junia. Their children were:
«tab»«u»Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus «/u»(14-by November, 54), who was consul in 46.
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«u»«tab»Junia Calvina «/u» (died after 79) who married «u»Lucius Vitellius the Younger «/u» (killed in 69), a brother of the future «u»Roman Emperor «/u» «u»Vitellius «/u» and was divorced by 49. She was accused of incest with her youngest brother, sent into exile by Emperor «u»Claudius «/u» and recalled ten years later by Emperor «u»Nero «/u» after he killed his own mother.
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«u»«tab»Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus «/u» (d. 64, forced to commit suicide) who was consul in 53.
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«u»«tab»Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus «/u» the Elder (committed suicide on New Year's Day, 49), praetor in 48 who was engaged to «u»Claudius's «/u» daughter «u»Claudia Octavia «/u» until «u»Agrippina the Younger «/u» spread false rumors about his alleged incest with his sister Junia Calvina.
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«u»«tab»Junia Lepida «/u» who married Gaius Cassius Longinus, and raised her nephew «u»Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus «/u» the younger (50-66) after his father Marcus was murdered.
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Lepida was killed in 53 on the orders by her maternal cousin Empress «u»Agrippina the Younger «/u» for unknown reasons, possibly because of her imperial descent.
«b»Sources
«tab»«u»«/b»Suetonius «/u» - The Twelve Caesars - Claudius
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«u»«tab»Tacitus «/u» - The Annals of Imperial Rome
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I61170 |
Glenn Cook Family |
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