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Gaius Sempronius Gracchus (Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
: C·SEMPRONIVS·TI·F·P·N·GRACCVS) (154 BC-121 BC) was a Roman
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 politician of the 2nd century BC. He was the younger brother of Tiberius Gracchus
Tiberius Gracchus

Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus was a Ancient Rome politician of the 2nd century BC and brother of Gaius Gracchus. As a tribune, he caused political turmoil in the Roman Republic by his attempts to legislate agrarian reforms....
 and, like him, pursued a popular political agenda that ultimately ended in his death. The senate declared senatus consultum ultimum
Senatus consultum ultimum

Senatus consultum ultimum , more properly senatus consultum de re publica defendenda is the modern term given to a decree of the Roman Senate during the late Roman Republic passed in times of emergency....
, which voided his protection of Sacrosanctity. Without the protection of sacrosanctity he could be legally tried for treason and even killed.






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Gaius Sempronius Gracchus (Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
: C·SEMPRONIVS·TI·F·P·N·GRACCVS) (154 BC-121 BC) was a Roman
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 politician of the 2nd century BC. He was the younger brother of Tiberius Gracchus
Tiberius Gracchus

Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus was a Ancient Rome politician of the 2nd century BC and brother of Gaius Gracchus. As a tribune, he caused political turmoil in the Roman Republic by his attempts to legislate agrarian reforms....
 and, like him, pursued a popular political agenda that ultimately ended in his death. The senate declared senatus consultum ultimum
Senatus consultum ultimum

Senatus consultum ultimum , more properly senatus consultum de re publica defendenda is the modern term given to a decree of the Roman Senate during the late Roman Republic passed in times of emergency....
, which voided his protection of Sacrosanctity. Without the protection of sacrosanctity he could be legally tried for treason and even killed. After a futile attempt to escape Rome, he ordered his slave to kill him before the gathering mob could get to him.

Gaius Gracchus married Licinia Crassa, the second daughter of Publius Licinius Crassus (consul in 131 BC) and Claudia. They had a son and daughter. The name and fate of their son is unknown. Their daughter Sempronia
Sempronia

Sempronia refers either to the female form of the prominent Sempronius family, called the Sempronius , or to the women of that family. The family was said to be one of the wealthiest, well-connected and influential political families during the Roman Republic....
 Gracchae (about 123 BC - 63 BC), who became the future heiress to the Gracchi estate, married Marcus Fulvius Flaccus Bambalio, son to his political ally Marcus Fulvius Flaccus (consul 125 BC)
Marcus Fulvius Flaccus (consul 125 BC)

Marcus Fulvius Flaccus was a Ancient Rome Roman Senate and an ally of the Gracchi. He became an administrator of the agrarian reform in 130 BC, and as a solution to the problem of land division among the allied cities, proposed Roman citizenship for the allies' citizens, thus introducing a question that vexed Roman politics for many years....
. Their only child was Fulvia
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....
 Flacca Bambula. Fulvia married the Roman politicians Publius Clodius Pulcher
Publius Clodius Pulcher

Publius Clodius Pulcher , was a Roman Republic politician of the Populares cause, who passed several significant laws but was chiefly remembered for his feuds with Titus Annius Milo and Marcus Tullius Cicero and for his introduction of the grain dole....
, Gaius Scribonius Curio
Gaius Scribonius Curio

Gaius Scribonius Curio was the name of a father and son who lived in the late Roman Republic....
 and Marc Antony. See also: Scipio-Paullus-Gracchus family tree
Scipio-Paullus-Gracchus family tree

The Scipio-Paullus-Gracchus family tree includes the Ancient Rome Scipio , Paullus and Gracchus families.See also: List of family trees...