| 1. | Vipsania Agrippina MAJOR was born in 0013 B.C. (daughter of Marcus Vipsanius AGRIPPA and Julia MAJOR); died on 18 Oct 33 in Pandateria. Other Events:
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Vipsania Agrippina was the daughter of Augustus' invaluable ally, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, and of Julia, Augustus' only daughter. She was thus raised intimately within Rome's first imperial family under the stern eye of her step-grandmother, Livia. As a member of that family, Agrippina would have been expected to embody the same strict Roman virtues as her mother and grandmother; frugality, chastity, and domesticity. Insofar as the traditional values described above applied to her mother, Julia failed spectacularly at all three and was banished by the Emperor; yet to the end of her days, Agrippina arrogantly prized her descent from the divine Augustus. In 11 BC, after Agrippa's death (by whom Julia had five children), Augustus forced Julia into a political marriage with her stepbrother, Tiberius, Livia's son. Agrippina was 3 years old when Augustus became her stepfather. The marriage, initially tranquil, became deeply dysfunctional. Tiberius left Rome for Rhodes, allegedly to avoid the scandal of his wife's sexually infidelities. In 2 BC, when Agrippina was only 12, Augustus discovered that his daughter was whiling away her spare time by committing adulteries on a notorious scale. The fact that Julia had been forced into not one, but three, loveless political marriages at her father's behest was no excuse. Augustus had passed severe laws against adultery in his attempts at moral reform. Allegedly he learned of her behavior through her sons (and his adopted children), Gaius and Lucius, Agrippina's brothers, who protested that their mother's behavior was notorious. Augustus banished Julia for life to the island of Pandateria off the western Italian coast, although she was later permitted to move to slightly easier house arrest at Rhegium. Agrippina never saw her mother again. It would be yet another source of friction between Agrippina and her former stepfather when, after Augustus' death, Tiberius effectively starved Julia to death by stopping her allowance. After Julia's exile, Agrippina and her remaining siblings were raised by Augustus and Livia. One wonders at the psychological impact on the daughter of her mother's passive fate. She could not have imagined that the same fate would befall her. Life With Germanicus, 5-19 AD At the age of 18 or 19, Agrippina was married to Nero Claudius Drusus "Germanicus", Livia's grandson, probably in 5 AD. It is important to understand that Germanicus, son of Livia's son Drusus (brother of Tiberius), was an attractive, educated general with genuine star-power popularity with the Roman people. She bore him nine children, half of whom would die in the imperial power-struggles following the death of Augustus. She was by all accounts a loyal and affectionate wife and supported her husband while on campaign in the approved manner.
Family/Spouse: Caeser Germanicus CAESER. Germanicus (son of Nero Claudius Drucus GERMANICUS, Governor of Gaul and Antonia MINOR) was born in 24 May 0014 B.C. in Rome, Roman Republic; died on 10 Oct 0019 in Antioch, Roman Republic. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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- Tiberius Julius CAESAR and died.
- Nero Julius CAESAR GERMANICUS was born in 0006 in Rome, Lazio, Italy; died in 0031 in Ponza, Latina, Lazio, Italy.
- Drusus Caesar was born in 0008 in Roma, Roman Empire; died in 33 in Roma, Roman Republic.
- Cal?gula Gaius Iulius Caesar Augustus GERMANICUS IMPERATOR OF ROME was born on 31 Aug 0012 in Anzio, Roma, Lazio, Italia; died on 24 Jan 41 in Palatine Hill, Rome; was buried in Mausoleum of Augustus, Rome.
- Julia Agrippina MINOR, II was born on 6 Nov 0015 in Oppidum Ubiorum, Germania, Roman Empire; died on 23 Mar 59 in Naples, Italy, Roman Empire; was buried in 59 in Miseno, Bacoli, Naples, Italy.
- Julia DRUSILLA was born on 16 Sep 0016 in Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; died on 10 Jun 38 in Rome, Lazio, Italy; was buried in 38 in Rome, Citt? Metropolitana di Roma Capitale, Lazio, Italy.
- Julia LIVILLA was born in 0018 in L?svos, Greece; died in 42 in Isola Ventotene, Italy.
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