Vipsania Agrippina MAJOR^[1]

0013 B.C. - 33

• Name	Vipsania Agrippina MAJOR
  Born	0013 B.C.
  Gender	Female
  FamilySearch ID	L6MJ-NGY
  _UID	84548F2506974BFF94EA89176417CCB9915E
  Died	18 Oct 33	Pandateria
  Person ID	I9247	Carney Wehofer Feb 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	20 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Marcus Vipsanius AGRIPPA,   b. 63 B.C.,   d. 0012 B.C.
  Mother	Julia MAJOR,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F4646	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Caeser Germanicus CAESER,   b. 24 May 0014 B.C., Rome, Roman Republic ,   d. 10 Oct 0019, Antioch, Roman Republic
  Children	1. Tiberius Julius CAESAR,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Nero Julius CAESAR GERMANICUS,   b. 0006, Rome, Lazio, Italy ,   d. 0031, Ponza, Latina, Lazio, Italy  (Age ~ 25 years)   3. Drusus Caesar,   b. 0008, Roma, Roman Empire ,   d. 33, Roma, Roman Republic  (Age ~ 24 years)   4. Cal?gula Gaius Iulius Caesar Augustus GERMANICUS IMPERATOR OF ROME,   b. 31 Aug 0012, Anzio, Roma, Lazio, Italia ,   d. 24 Jan 41, Palatine Hill, Rome  (Age 28 years)   5. Julia Agrippina MINOR, II,   b. 6 Nov 0015, Oppidum Ubiorum, Germania, Roman Empire ,   d. 23 Mar 59, Naples, Italy, Roman Empire  (Age 43 years)   6. Julia DRUSILLA,   b. 16 Sep 0016, Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany ,   d. 10 Jun 38, Rome, Lazio, Italy  (Age 21 years)   7. Julia LIVILLA,   b. 0018, L?svos, Greece ,   d. 42, Isola Ventotene, Italy  (Age ~ 23 years)
  Last Modified	20 Dec 2022
  Family ID	F4638	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  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.

  
  

• Sources

  [SAuth] Jim Carney, compiled by James H Carney [(E-ADDRESS), & MAILING ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Buderim, Queensland 4556 AUSTRALIA.