![]() In this generation the first marriages between Claudii and descendants of the Julii Caesares took place. The Claudii were a powerful gens with consuls and other high ranking politicians in several of its families across several generations. Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica Generation of Julius Caesar's daughter (2) In this generation Mark Antony had children by, among others, Antonia Hybrida Minor, and Fulvia. ![]() Their daughter Octavia the Younger became an ancestor to the last three emperors of that dynasty. Ītia, 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. His son Caesarion resulted from his relation with Cleopatra. His third wife Calpurnia is said to be younger than his daughter. Julius Caesar's second wife Pompeia, possibly a great-granddaughter of Lucius Julius Caesar II, was a granddaughter of Sulla. Pompey married Julius Caesar's daughter Julia. #Gaius julius caesar famous relatives full#Generation of Julius Caesar's daughter īy this time marriages with a political agenda among the powerful families were in full swing, however not yet between Julii Caesares and Claudii. Mark Antony's mother Julia was the daughter of Lucius Julius Caesar: she was an ancestor of the last three emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. This is also the generation of Mark Antony's parents. The younger of Caesar's two sisters married Marcus Atius: they were ancestors of all the Julio-Claudian emperors, apart from Tiberius. After being betrothed to Cossutia, Julius Caesar's first wife was Cornelia, the mother of Julia. Julia Cornelia 1įollowing 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. For ensuing generations, Gaius Julius Caesar (proconsul of Asia), married to a consul's daughter, and Lucius Julius Caesar proved to be quintessential ancestors of those who held Imperial power in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. This generation has also two female descendants very close to the centers of power by their marriages: Julia, the daughter of 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. This generation of Julii Caesares has two consuls: Sextus Julius Caesar in 91 BC, and Lucius Julius Caesar the next year. 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. Generation of Julius Caesar's grandfather After Tiberius, the remaining three emperors of the dynasty had, outside adoptions, ancestors in both the Julian and the Claudian families. The next generation had both Claudii with a Julia as ancestor, as Claudii adopted into the Julii Caesares family. 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. Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Note that descendancy of the Julii Caesares before the generation of Julius Caesar's grandfather is in part conjectural, but as presented by scholars. Marriages between descendants of Sextus Julius Caesar and Claudii had occurred from the late stages of the Roman Republic, but the intertwined Julio-Claudian family tree resulted mostly from adoptions and marriages in Imperial Rome's first decades. ![]() All emperors of that dynasty descended from Julii Caesares and/or from Claudii. The Julio-Claudian dynasty was the first dynasty of Roman emperors. See also: Julii Caesares § Descendancy, and Family tree of Roman emperors § 27 BC – AD 192 ![]()
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