Claudia Marcella

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Claudia Marcella

Claudia Marcella was the name of the two daughters of Octavia Minor

Octavia Minor

Octavia Minor , also known as Octavia the Younger or simply Octavia, was the sister of the first Roman Emperor, Augustus , half sister of Octavia Major, and fourth wife of Mark Antony....
, the sister of Emperor Augustus, from her first husband, the consul

Consul

Consul was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Roman Empire. The title was also used in other city states, and revived in modern states, notably French Republic before the Napoleon I of Franceic counter-revolution....
Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor

Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor

Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor, was a member of the distinguished Claudius family and a direct descendant of the consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus....
. According to Suetonius, they were known as The Marcellae sisters. The sisters were born in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
. Between 40 BC-36 BC, they lived with their mother and their stepfather Triumvir Mark Antony

Mark Antony

Marcus Antonius , known in English as Marc Antony, was a Roman Republic politician and General. He was an important supporter and the best friend of Julius Caesar as a military commander and administrator, being Caesar's second cousin, once removed, by his mother Julia Antonia....
in Athens

Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
, Greece

Greece

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. After 36 BC, they accompanied their mother, as she returned to Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
with their siblings.

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Claudia Marcella was the name of the two daughters of Octavia Minor

Octavia Minor

Consul

Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor

Rome

Mark Antony

Athens

Greece

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
with their siblings. They were raised and educated by their mother, their maternal uncle and their maternal aunt-in-marriage Empress Livia

Livia

Livia Drusilla, after 14 AD called Julia Augusta was the wife of Augustus and one of the most powerful women in the Roman Empire, being Augustus' faithful advisor....
Drusilla. Very little is known on these two daughters of Octavia Minor.

Claudia Marcella Major

The first daughter, Claudia Marcella Major (PIR² C 1102; Major Latin for the elder; born 41 BC), was married in 28 BC to statesman and close friend to Augustus Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa was a Roman statesman and general. He was a close friend, son-in-law, lieutenant and minister to Octavian, the future emperor Caesar Augustus....
in an alliance with her uncle. Suetonius (Vita Augustii, 63.1), states they had children. Marcella bore him a daughter, Vipsania Marcella

Vipsania Marcella

Vipsania Marcella Agrippina or Marcellina was the only daughter to Roman statesman Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa from his second wife Claudia Marcella Major....
, who in about 14 BC married the general Publius Quinctilius Varus

Publius Quinctilius Varus

Publius Quinctilius Varus was a Ancient Rome politician and general under emperor Augustus, mainly remembered for having lost three Roman legions and his own life when attacked by Germanic tribes leader Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest....
.

In 21 BC Agrippa divorced Marcella to marry Augustus' daughter Julia the Elder

Julia the Elder

Julia the Elder , known to her contemporaries as Julia Caesaris filia or Julia Augusti filia was the daughter and only natural child of Augustus....
who was recently widowed from her first husband Marcus Claudius Marcellus

Marcus Claudius Marcellus (Julio-Claudian dynasty)

Marcus Claudius Marcellus was the eldest son of Octavia Minor, sister of Augustus, and Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor, a former consul. He was descended through his father from Marcus Claudius Marcellus, a famous general in the Second Punic War....
, Marcella's elder brother. Marcella then married consul Iullus Antonius

Iullus Antonius

Iullus Antonius , also known as Iulus, Julus or Jullus, was the second son of Mark Antony and his third wife Fulvia. He is best known for being the famous lover of Julia the Elder....
, the second son of Mark Antony

Mark Antony

Fulvia

Fulvia was a Ancient Rome woman who lived in the 1st century BC. According to Plutarch, Fulvia had no interest in spinning nor managing a household nor ruling a husband with no ambition for public life; Fulvia wanted to govern or to command and be a commander-in-chief....
, who was later exile

Exile

Exile means to be away from one's home while either being explicitly refused permission to return and/or being threatened by prison or death upon return....
d for adultery

Adultery

Adultery is the voluntary sexual intercourse between a marriage and another person who is not his or her spouse, though in many places it is only considered adultery when a married woman has sexual relations with someone who is not her husband and in others it is only considered adultery when a married woman has sexual relations with someon...
with Julia. According to Plutarch

Plutarch

Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus , c. AD 46 ? 120 ? commonly known in English as Plutarch ? was a Ancient Rome historian , biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonism....
, Octavia took Marcella (after divorcing Agrippa) back to her house and made her marry Iullus Antonius

Iullus Antonius

Tacitus

Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman Senate and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories —examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those that reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors....
(Annals 4.44), Iullus and Marcella had children. They had two sons: Lucius Antonius

Lucius Antonius (grandson of Mark Antony)

Lucius Antonius was an Ancient Rome, the first son to Iullus Antonius and Claudia Marcella Major. Lucius' younger siblings were Gaius Antonius and Iulla Antonia....
and Gaius Antonius

Gaius Antonius (grandson of Mark Antony)

Gaius Antonius was the second son of consul Iullus Antonius and Claudia Marcella Major. His brother was praetor Lucius Antonius and his sister was Iulla Antonia....
and a daughter Iulla Antonia

Iulla Antonia

Iulla Antonia or Julia Antonia, was a daughter of Ancient Rome consul Iullus Antonius and Claudia Marcella Major. Her elder brothers were Lucius Antonius and Gaius Antonius ....
(cf. PIR² sub A 800; Raepsaet-Charlier, nr. 78, p. 95). After Iullus' death in 2 BC, Marcella married Sextus Appuleius

Sextus Appuleius

Sextus Appuleius The name of four figures during the 1st century BCE & 1st century. The first Sextus Appuleius was married to Octavia Major, the elder half-sister of Augustus....
, the consul of 14. Their daughter and only child was Appuleia Varilla

Appuleia Varilla

Appuleia Varilla was the only child of Claudia Marcella Major and her third husband, Sextus Appuleius, consul in 14. Her four older maternal half-siblings were Vipsania Marcella, Lucius Antonius , Gaius Antonius and Iulla Antonia....
. Through her children, Marcella doesn’t seem to have any further descendants.

Claudia Marcella Minor

The second daughter, Claudia Marcella Minor (PIR² C 1103, Minor Latin for the younger, born 40 BC), was born after her father's death. The husband’s names of this Marcella are not even known with certainty and have been conjectured on the basis of inscriptions and literary sources. Marcella first married Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus

Aemilius Lepidus Paullus

Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus was a member of the Roman Senate. Paullus was a member of the Aemilius. He was grandson to Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and Appuleia through their son Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus....
(a nephew of triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus

Marcus Aemilius Lepidus

Marcus Aemilius Lepidus may refer to:* Marcus Aemilius Lepidus , consul in 232 BC and 221 BC, and augur* Marcus Aemilius Lepidus , consul in 187 BC and 175 BC, Pontifex Maximus 180?152 BC, and censor...
) consul in 34 BC, to whom she bore a daughter Claudia Pulchra

Claudia Pulchra

Claudia Pulchra was the name of several women of Claudius during the 1st century BC and 1st century. The Latin pulchra is the root of the English word pulchritude ....
. Paullus died in 13 BC. Pulchra married and became the second wife of Publius Quinctilius Varus

Publius Quinctilius Varus

Publius Quinctilius Varus was a Ancient Rome politician and general under emperor Augustus, mainly remembered for having lost three Roman legions and his own life when attacked by Germanic tribes leader Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest....
. They had a son, a younger Publius Quinctilius Varus

Quinctilius Varus

Publius Quinctilius Varus Minor was the only child to Roman general and politician Publius Quinctilius Varus from his second marriage to Claudia Pulchra....
.

Marcella remarried and her second husband was senator who was twice consul Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus

Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus

Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus was the son of the Ancient Rome famous orator Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, whom he resembled in character....
. They had a son, who was their only child called Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus

Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus

Marcus Valerius Messala Barbatus was a Roman consul of ancient Rome. He was the father of the Roman Empress Valeria Messalina.He was son of Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus and Claudia Marcella Minor....
(PIR¹ V 88). Barbatus became a consul and married his maternal cousin Domitia Lepida

Domitia Lepida

Domitia Lepida , Domitia Lepida Minor or simply known as Lepida , was the younger daughter of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and Antonia Major....
and they had two children: consul Marcus Valerius Messala Corvinus and future infamous Empress Valeria Messalina who married and became the third wife to Emperor Claudius

Claudius

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Claudius I was the fourth Roman Emperor, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from January 24, AD 41 to his death in AD 54....
. Messalina and Claudius had two children: Claudia Octavia

Claudia Octavia

Claudia Octavia was a Roman Empress, stepsister and first wife to Roman Emperor Nero....
, future Empress and first wife to Emperor Nero

Nero

Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, was the fifth and final Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty....
and prince Britannicus

Britannicus

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus was the son of the Roman Empire Claudius and his third wife Valeria Messalina. He became the heir-designate of the empire at his birth, less than a month into his father's reign....
.