Julio-Claudian family tree: Difference between revisions

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 mariages and adoptions.

Descendancy of the emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty

See also: Julii Caesares § Descendancy, and Family tree of Roman emperors § 27 BC – AD 192

The Julio-Claudian dynasty was the first dynasty of Roman emperors. All emperors of that dynasty descended from Julii Caesares and/or from Claudii. Mariages between descendants of Sextus Julius Caesar I and Claudii had occurred from the late stages of the Roman Republic, but the intertwined Julio-Claudian family tree resulted mostly from adoptions and mariages in Imperial Rome's first decades. Note that descendancy of the Julii Caesares before the generation of Julius Caesar's grandfather is in part conjectural, but as presented by scholars.

Julio-Claudian family tree
Sextus Julius Caesar I Gaius Julius Caesar I Sextus Julius Caesar II Postumus Gaius Julius Caesar II Marcia Regia Gaius Marius Julia Caesaris Gaius Julius Caesar the Elder Aurelia Cotta Sextus Julius Caesar III 3 Calpurnia Pisonis Lucius Julius Caesar II Julia Caesaris Marcus Atius Balbus Sextus Julius Caesar 2 Pompeia Lucius Julius Caesar III Gaius Julius Caesar Gaius Octavius Atia Sextus Julius Caesar IV 1 Cornelia Cinna minor Julia Antonia 2 Pompey Julia Caesaris 1 Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor Octavia Minor 2 Mark Antony 1 Scribonia Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Livia Drusilla Augusta 1 Tiberius Claudius Nero 1 Claudius Marcellus 2 Julia the Elder 3 Tiberius Claudius Nero 1 Vipsania Agrippina Drusus the Elder Antonia Minor 2 Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa 1 Plautia Urgulanilla Drusus the Younger Livilla Claudius Drusus Julia the Younger Gaius Caesar Tiberius Gemellus Livia Julia 2 Aelia Paetina Agrippa Postumus Lucius Caesar Agrippina the Elder Germanicus 2 Claudius Claudia Antonia Lucius Cassius Longinus Drusilla Drusus Caesar Julia Livilla 4 Agrippina the Younger 1 Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 32) 3 Valeria Messalina Milonia Caesonia Gaius Caesar (Caligula) Nero Caesar 1 Claudia Octavia Britannicus Julia Drusilla 1 Otho 2 Poppaea Sabina 2 Nero 3 Statilia Messalina Claudia Augusta
Legend descent adoption marriage  1, 2  spouse order

References

• Miriam Griffin. A Companion to Julius Caesar, p. 13 ff. John Wiley & Sons, 2009. ISBN 1444308459 ISBN 9781444308457 (Julius Caesar's descendancy)
• 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 (lexicographer)|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)

External links

• Sextus Julius I Caesar Proconsul of Sicily (and subsequent pages) at homepages.rpi.edu/~holmes/