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 31 Jan 35 B.C. - 37
Generation: 1
| 1. | Antonia MINOR was born in 31 Jan 35 B.C. in Athens, Attica, Greece (daughter of Emperor Marcus Antonius Triumvar Of ROME and Octavia MAJOR); died on 1 May 37 in Rome, Italy, Roman Empire; was buried in Mausoleum of Augustus, Rome, Italy, Roman Empire. Other Events:
- FamilySearch ID: L2RF-5FG
- Name: Julia Antonia Minor
- _UID: C8D2C28E9B0E4040B401748412DF5DC4D294
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Antonia Minor[a] (31 January 36 BC - 1 May AD 37) was the younger of two surviving daughters of Mark Antony and Octavia Minor. She was a niece of the Emperor Augustus, sister-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, paternal grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger, mother of the Emperor Claudius, and maternal great-grandmother of the Emperor Nero. She outlived her husband Drusus, her oldest son, her daughter and several of her grandchildren.
Biography
Birth and early life
She was born in Athens, Greece, and after 36 BC was taken to Rome by her mother with her siblings. She was the youngest of five: her mother had three children, named Claudia Marcella Major, Claudia Marcella Minor, and Marcus Claudius Marcellus, from her first marriage and another daughter, named Antonia Major by the same father. Antonia never knew her father, Mark Antony, who divorced her mother in 32 BC and committed suicide in 30 BC. She was raised by her mother, her uncle, and her aunt, Livia Drusilla. Having inherited properties in Italy, Greece, and Egypt, she was a wealthy and influential woman, who often received visitors to Rome. She had many male friends, including Alexander the Alabarch, a wealthy Jew, and Lucius Vitellius, a consul and the father of Aulus Vitellius, a future emperor.
Marriage and family
In 16 BC, she married the Roman general and future consul (9 BC) Nero Claudius Drusus. Drusus was the stepson of her uncle Augustus, second son of Livia Drusilla and brother of future Emperor Tiberius. They had many children, but only three survived: the famous general Germanicus, Livilla and the Roman Emperor Claudius.[1] A poem by Crinagoras of Mytilene mentions Antonia's first pregnancy, which may be of a child before Germanicus whom must have died in infancy or early childhood.[1][2][3] Drusus died in June 9 BC in Germany, due to complications from injuries he sustained after falling from a horse. After his death, although pressured by her uncle to remarry, she never did.
Antonia raised her children in Rome. Tiberius adopted Germanicus in AD 4.[4] Germanicus died in 19 AD, allegedly poisoned through the handiwork of Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso and Munatia Plancina. Tacitus suggests but does not outright say in Annals 3.3 that, on the orders of Tiberius and Livia Drusilla, Antonia was forbidden to go to his funeral. When Livia Drusilla died in June 29 AD, Antonia took care of her younger grandchildren Caligula, Agrippina the Younger, Julia Drusilla, Julia Livilla and later Claudia Antonia.
Conflict with Livilla
In 31 AD, a plot by her daughter Livilla and Tiberius' notorious Praetorian prefect, Sejanus, was exposed by Apicata, the estranged ex-wife of Sejanus, to murder the Emperor Tiberius and Caligula and to seize the throne for themselves. Livilla allegedly poisoned her husband, Tiberius' son, Drusus Julius Caesar (nicknamed "Castor"), in 23 AD to remove him as a rival. Sejanus was executed before Livilla was implicated in the crime. After Apicata's accusation, which came in the form of a letter to the emperor, several co-conspirators were executed while Livilla was handed over to her formidable mother for punishment. Cassius Dio states that Antonia imprisoned Livilla in her room until she starved to death.[5]
Succession of Caligula and death
When Tiberius died, Caligula became emperor in March 37 AD. Caligula awarded her a senatorial decree, granting her all the honors that Livia Drusilla had received in her lifetime. She was also offered the title of Augusta, previously only given to Augustus's wife Livia, but rejected it.
Six months into his reign, Caligula became seriously ill. Antonia would often offer Caligula advice, but he once told her, "I can treat anyone exactly as I please!" Caligula was rumored to have had his young cousin Gemellus beheaded, to remove him as a rival to the throne. This act was said to have outraged Antonia, who was grandmother to Gemellus as well as to Caligula.
Having had enough of Caligula's anger at her criticisms and of his behavior, she committed suicide. Suetonius Caligula 23, relates how he might have poisoned her.
When his grandmother Antonia asked for a private interview, he refused it except in the presence of the prefect Macro, and by such indignities and annoyances he caused her death; although some think that he also gave her poison. After she was dead, he paid her no honour, but viewed her burning pyre from his dining-room.
Antonia died on 1 May 37.[6]
When Claudius became emperor after his nephew's assassination in 41 AD, he gave his mother the title of Augusta. Her birthday became a public holiday, which had yearly games and public sacrifices held. An image of her was paraded in a carriage.
Antonia married Nero Claudius Drucus GERMANICUS, Governor of Gaul in 0018 B.C.. Nero (son of Tiberius Claudius NERO, Germanicus and Livia DRUSILLA) was born in 14 Jan 37 B.C. in BC, Roma, Roman Republic; died in 0008 B.C. in BC, Germania, Roman Empire; was buried in Killed In Fall From Horse. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- Caeser Germanicus CAESER was born in 24 May 0014 B.C. in Rome, Roman Republic; died on 10 Oct 0019 in Antioch, Roman Republic.
- Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero GERMANICUS was born in 1 Aug 0009 B.C. in Lungudum, Gaul, Roman Empire; died on 13 Oct 54 in Miseno, Bacoli, Naples, Italy; was buried on 13 Aug 54 in Mausoleum Of Augustus, Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.
- Claudia Livia Julia "Livilla", of Rome was born in 0012 B.C. in Lugdunum, Gaul, Roman Empire; died in 0031 in Gaul, Roman Empire.
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| 2. | Emperor Marcus Antonius Triumvar Of ROME was born in 14 Jan 82 B.C. in Roma, Roman Republic (son of Marcus Antonius Praetor CRECITUS and Julia Caesonia Of ROME); died in 1 Aug 0029 B.C. in Alexandria, Egypt. Other Events:
- Affiliation: ; Political party: Populares
- Cause of Death: ; Suicide
- FamilySearch ID: LVDH-133
- MilitaryService: 0029 B.C.; committed suicide after defeat at the Battle of Alexandria - again by Octavius
- MilitaryService: 0030 B.C.; defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium
- MilitaryService: 46 B.C.; Magister equitum of the Roman Republic under Julius Caesar
- Occupation: 43 B.C.; Consul of the Roman Republic, with Julius Caesar
- _UID: FCC2916EEB664900A3A3CF408B0096461327
- MilitaryService: Between 53 and 0029; Proconsul in the Roman Army
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Antony, Mark (Latin Marcus Antonius) (83?-30 BC), Roman statesman and general, who defeated the assassins of Julius Caesar and, with Gaius Octavius and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, formed the Second Triumvirate, which ultimately secured the end of the Roman Republic. Antony was born in Rome and educated for a short time in Greece. From 58 to 56 BC he served as a leader of cavalry in Roman campaigns in Palestine and Egypt, and from 54 to 50 BC he served in Gaul under Julius Caesar. Subsequently, with Caesar's aid, he attained the offices of quaestor, augur, and tribune of the people. At the outbreak of the civil war between Caesar and the Roman soldier and statesman Pompey the Great, Antony was appointed Caesar's commander in chief in Italy. He commanded the left wing of Caesar's army at the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC, and in 44 BC he shared the consulship with Caesar. After the assassination of Caesar in 44 BC, Antony's skillful oratory, immortalized by Shakespeare in the play Julius Caesar, turned the Roman people against the conspirators, leaving Antony for a time with almost absolute power in Rome. A rival soon appeared, however, in the person of Gaius Octavius, later the Roman emperor Augustus, who was grandnephew of Caesar and Caesar's designated heir. A struggle for power broke out when Antony, Octavius, and a third contender for the throne, the Roman general Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, formed the Second Triumvirate and agreed to divide the Roman Empire among themselves. In 42 BC, at Philippi, the triumvirate crushed the forces led by two assassins of Caesar, the Roman statesmen Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, who sought to restore the Roman Republic. Later in the same year, Antony summoned the Egyptian queen Cleopatra to attend him in the city of Tarsus, in Cilicia (now in Turkey), and explain her refusal to aid the triumvirate in the civil war. Instead of punishing Cleopatra, however, Antony fell in love with her and returned with her to Egypt in 41 BC. In 40 BC he attended meetings of the triumvirate in Italy, at which a new division of the Roman world was arranged, with Antony receiving the eastern portion, from the Adriatic Sea to the Euphrates River; in the same year he attempted to cement his relations with Octavius by marrying the latter's sister Octavia. Nevertheless, Antony soon returned to Egypt and resumed his life with Cleopatra. Octavius made use of this fact to excite the indignation of the Roman people against Antony. When, in 36 BC, Antony was defeated in a military expedition against the Parthians, popular disapproval of his conduct deepened in Rome, and a new civil war became inevitable. In 31 BC the forces of Antony and Cleopatra were decisively defeated by those of Octavius in a naval engagement near Actium. The couple returned to Egypt, deserted by the Egyptian fleet and by most of Antony's own army. In the following year, besieged by the troops of Octavius in Alexandria and deceived by a false report of Cleopatra's suicide, Antony killed himself by falling on his sword.
Marcus married Octavia MAJOR in 40 B.C. in Brundisium, His 3Rd Marriage, Her 2ND. Octavia (daughter of General Gais OCTAVIOUS and Atia BALBUS) was born in 69 B.C.; died in 0011 B.C.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 3. | Octavia MAJOR was born in 69 B.C. (daughter of General Gais OCTAVIOUS and Atia BALBUS); died in 0011 B.C.. Other Events:
- FamilySearch ID: LDS3-975
- _UID: 28471A1C34624D7CAF1647871255F99D94BA
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Octavia (69?-11 bc), Roman matron, daughter of the Roman general Gaius Octavius, grandniece of Julius Caesar, and sister of Octavian, who became emperor as Augustus. Octavia was distinguished for her beauty and her virtue. In 40 BC on the death of her first husband, the consul Gaius Claudius Marcellus, she consented to marry Octavian's rival Mark Antony to make secure the reconciliation between him and her brother. When Antony deserted her for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, Octavia remained loyal to her husband, even providing him with reinforcements on occasion. Octavian was indignant at the treatment she received and wished her to leave her husband's house. When war broke out between Octavian and Antony in 32 BC, Antony crowned his insults by sending Octavia a notice of divorce. When he died in Egypt after being defeated by Octavian in 30, Octavia brought up not only her own children but also Antony's children by his first wife, Fulvia, and by Cleopatra. Octavia herself had five children: two daughters by Antony, and a son and two daughters by her first husband. Her son, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, was adopted by Augustus and apparently intended to succeed the latter as emperor, but died at the age of 19. Among the descendants of two of Octavia's daughters, Antonia Major and Antonia Minor, were three rulers of the Roman Empire: the emperors Claudius I, Nero, and Caligula.
Children:
- Antonia Major "THE ELDER" was born about 33 B.C. in BC, Roma, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in Oct 37 in Roma, Roma, Lazio, Italy.
- 1. Antonia MINOR was born in 31 Jan 35 B.C. in Athens, Attica, Greece; died on 1 May 37 in Rome, Italy, Roman Empire; was buried in Mausoleum of Augustus, Rome, Italy, Roman Empire.
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| 4. | Marcus Antonius Praetor CRECITUS was born about 100 B.C. in Italy (son of Marcus ANTONIUS); died about 68 B.C. in Crete. Other Events:
- FamilySearch ID: LH1F-CM9
- _UID: 75A4E7F76EF145D6BAB4B9291B64E08CAC97
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Mark Antony II. was Praetor in U. C. 682, 71 B.C. He took care of the granaries, made war unsuccessfully upon the Cretans and died of grief U.C. 685, 68 B.C
"Creticus" was not an honorific but a sarcastic reference to his incompetent failure when sent against the Cretan pirates
Source: lorenfamily.com
Occupation:
Admiral & Praetor of Rome
Marcus married Julia Caesonia Of ROME about 80 B.C. in Rome, Italy. Julia (daughter of Lucius Julius Caesar ROMAN EMPIRE and COSSUTIA) was born in 103 B.C. in Abt. 130 B.C.; died in 49 B.C.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 5. | Julia Caesonia Of ROME was born in 103 B.C. in Abt. 130 B.C. (daughter of Lucius Julius Caesar ROMAN EMPIRE and COSSUTIA); died in 49 B.C.. Other Events:
- FamilySearch ID: LNDP-FQX
- _UID: BBF9B1A829514F53B41DAE73EA585DC27CCF
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JULIA LUCIUS JULIUS. She was the daughter of Lucius Julius III. (Wurts, 1945)
She married MARCUS ANTONIUS CRETICUS OF ROME. He was the son of Mark Antony, born 143 BC and died 87 BC. Creticus was the grandson of Gaius Antonius. Creticus was Praetor in UC 682, BC 71. He died in UC 685, BC 68. (Wurts, 1945)
Child: Mark Antony II, Lucius Antonius (Wurts, 1945)
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| 8. | Marcus ANTONIUS was born in 143 B.C. in Italy; died in 87 B.C.. Other Events:
- _UID: 045CCFC1D6C3444DA5258FC4328B69298646
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| 11. | COSSUTIA and died. Other Events:
- _UID: F3F314B64C7E4C708E8836235F68838D7C07
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Source: lorenfamily.com
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| 15. | Julia CAESER was born in 105 B.C. (daughter of Caius Julius CAESER, III and Aurelia CORNELIA); died in 51 B.C.. Other Events:
- _UID: 084A53B9DFEF4AE0BD97891A147824848187
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0051 B.C. . ?Octavius, her grandson, delivered the eulogy at her funeral, which was his first public appearance as Emperor.
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