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Carney & Wehofer Family
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 63 B.C. - 0012 B.C.
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
| 2. |  Vipsania Agrippina MAJOR  (1.Marcus1) was born in 0013 B.C.; died on 18 Oct 33 in Pandateria. Other Events:
- FamilySearch ID: L6MJ-NGY
- _UID: 84548F2506974BFF94EA89176417CCB9915E
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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]
Children:
- 3. Tiberius Julius CAESAR and died.
- 4. Nero Julius CAESAR GERMANICUS was born in 0006 in Rome, Lazio, Italy; died in 0031 in Ponza, Latina, Lazio, Italy.
- 5. Drusus Caesar was born in 0008 in Roma, Roman Empire; died in 33 in Roma, Roman Republic.
- 6. 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.
- 7. 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.
- 8. 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.
- 9. Julia LIVILLA was born in 0018 in L?svos, Greece; died in 42 in Isola Ventotene, Italy.
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Generation: 3
| 5. |  Drusus Caesar (2.Vipsania2, 1.Marcus1) was born in 0008 in Roma, Roman Empire; died in 33 in Roma, Roman Republic. Other Events:
- FamilySearch ID: GZPH-GL8
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| 7. | Julia Agrippina MINOR, II (2.Vipsania2, 1.Marcus1) 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. Other Events:
- FamilySearch ID: LK62-7Q8
- Name: Agrippina MINOR "THE YOUNGER"
- _UID: C352E284E38548CF8D7015EC6ED06CDD7FEF
- TitleOfNobility: Between 49 and 54, Roma, Roman Empire; Empress of the Roman Empire
Notes:
Agrippina and Claudius married on New Year's Day, 49. This marriage caused widespread disapproval. This was a part of Agrippina's scheming plan to make her son Lucius the new emperor. Her marriage to Claudius was not based on love, but on power. She quickly eliminated her rival Lollia Paulina. Shortly after marrying Claudius, Agrippina persuaded the emperor to charge Paulina with black magic. Claudius stipulated that Paulina did not receive a hearing and her property was confiscated. She left Italy, but Agrippina was unsatisfied. Allegedly on Agrippina's orders, Paulina committed suicide.
In the months leading up to her marriage to Claudius, Agrippina's maternal second cousin, the praetor Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus, was betrothed to Claudius' daughter Claudia Octavia. This betrothal was broken off in 48, when Agrippina, scheming with the consul Lucius Vitellius the Elder, the father of the future emperor Aulus Vitellius, falsely accused Silanus of incest with his sister Junia Calvina. Agrippina did this hoping to secure a marriage between Octavia and her son. Consequently, Claudius broke off the engagement and forced Silanus to resign from public office.
Silanus committed suicide on the day that Agrippina married her uncle, and Calvina was exiled from Italy in early 49. Calvina was called back from exile after the death of Agrippina. Towards the end of 54, Agrippina would order the murder of Silanus' eldest brother Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus without Nero's knowledge, so that he would not seek revenge against her over his brother's death.
On the day that Agrippina married her uncle Claudius as her third husband/his fourth wife, she became empress. She also was a stepmother to Claudia Antonia, Claudius' daughter and only child from his second marriage to Aelia Paetina, and to the young Claudia Octavia and Britannicus, Claudius' children with Valeria Messalina. Agrippina removed or eliminated anyone from the palace or the imperial court who she thought was loyal and dedicated to the memory of the late Messalina. She also eliminated or removed anyone who she considered was a potential threat to her position and the future of her son, one of her victims being Lucius' second paternal aunt and Messalina's mother Domitia Lepida the Younger.
Griffin describes how Agrippina "had achieved this dominant position for her son and herself by a web of political alliances," which included Claudius's chief secretary and bookkeeper Pallas, his doctor Xenophon, and Afranius Burrus, the head of the Praetorian Guard (the imperial bodyguard), who owed his promotion to Agrippina. Neither ancient nor modern historians of Rome have doubted that Agrippina had her eye on securing the throne for Nero from the very day of the marriage? if not earlier. Dio Cassius's observation seems to bear that out: "As soon as Agrippina had come to live in the palace she gained complete control over Claudius."
In 49, Agrippina was seated on a dais at a parade of captives when their leader the Celtic King Caratacus bowed before her with the same homage and gratitude as he accorded the emperor. In 50, Agrippina was granted the honorific title of Augusta. She was only the third Roman woman (Livia Drusilla and Antonia Minor received this title) and only the second living Roman woman (the first being Antonia) to receive this title.
In her capacity as Augusta, Agrippina quickly became a trusted advisor to Claudius. And by AD 54, She exerted a considerable influence over the decisions of the emperor. A statues had been erected in her honor in the in all empire, and in the Senate, her followers were advanced with public offices and governorships. However this privileged position caused resentment among the senatorial class and the imperial family.
Julia married Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero GERMANICUS in 49. Tiberius (son of Nero Claudius Drucus GERMANICUS, Governor of Gaul and Antonia MINOR) 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. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 8. | Julia DRUSILLA (2.Vipsania2, 1.Marcus1) 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. Other Events:
- FamilySearch ID: LB9K-YM2
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| 9. | Julia LIVILLA (2.Vipsania2, 1.Marcus1) was born in 0018 in L?svos, Greece; died in 42 in Isola Ventotene, Italy. Other Events:
- FamilySearch ID: LB92-K68
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Generation: 4
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