Julia (daughter of the younger Drusus)

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Iulia (also Iulia Livia or Iulia Drusi Caesaris ; * 5 AD ; † 43 AD ) was the daughter of Tiberius Drusus Iulius Caesar and Livilla .

According to the emperor's biographer Suetonius , one of Augustus Julia's last words was health because she was ill at the time of his death.

In 20 AD Iulia Livia married her cousin Nero Caesar , the eldest son of Germanicus and the elder Agrippina . Her husband was the eldest adoptive grandson of Tiberius and was therefore considered his successor. In 29 AD, however, he and his mother fell victim to the machinations of the Praetorian prefect Seianus and were banished as an enemy of the state to the island of Ponza , where he died the following year under unexplained circumstances. The historian Cassius Dio reports that Julia was subsequently betrothed to Seianus, but Suetonius and Tacitus do not mention this engagement.

Soon after the fall of Seianus, Iulia married Gaius Rubellius Blandus , who was a suffect consul in AD 18 and a proconsul in Africa in AD 36 . According to Tacitus , this improper marriage was seen in Rome as a cause for mourning. The marriage resulted in several children, including Rubellius Plautus , whom Nero later eliminated as a competitor, and Rubellia Bassa, who married Nerva's uncle. In 43 AD Iulia was accused of incest and immoral conduct by the Empress Messalina . Her uncle Claudius did nothing in her defense, so she was executed. Julia's friend Pomponia Graecina , the wife of Aulus Plautius , therefore bore mourning for the rest of her life.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Suetonius, Augustus 99.
  2. ↑ Cassius Dio 58,3,9.
  3. ↑ Tacitus, Annals 6:27
  4. ^ Suetonius, Claudius 29.
  5. ↑ Tacitus: Annals 13:32
personal data
SURNAME Julia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Iulia Livia; Iulia Drusi Caesaris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of the younger Drusus, executed at Messaline's instigation
DATE OF BIRTH 5
DATE OF DEATH 43