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Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, (6-39) was the son of consul
Roman consul

Consul was the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.During the time of ancient Rome as a Republic, the Consuls were the highest civil and military magistrates, serving as the head of government for the Republic....
 Lucius Aemilius Paullus. His step-sister Aemilia Lepida
Aemilia Lepida

Aemilia Lepida is the name of Roman Empire women belonging to the gens Aemilius. All but the first Aemilia Lepida lived in the imperial era....
 (through his adoption by his uncle, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus) was married to Emperor
Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
 Caligula's
Caligula

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , more commonly known by his nickname Caligula , was the third Roman Emperor, reigning from 16 March 37 until his assassination on 24 January 41....
 elder brother Drusus Caesar
Drusus Caesar

Drusus Julius Caesar, also referred to as Drusus III , was a member of a noble family of Ancient Rome. He was a son of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder....
. He was also great-grandson of Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus (consul of 50 BC and brother of the triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (triumvir)

Marcus Aemilius Lepidus ,born ca 90 BC died 13 BC, was a patrician Ancient Rome politician of the 1st century BC who rose to become a member of the Second Triumvirate and Pontifex Maximus....
). Some areas of his lineage are unclear. It is possible his great-grand uncle was Emperor
Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
 Augustus or that his great-grand mother was Augustus' first wife Scribonia
Scribonia

Scribonia was the daughter of Lucius Scribonius Libo and Cornelia Sulla . Her brother of the same name was consul and died in 34 BC. She was the second wife of Roman Emperor Augustus and the mother of his only natural child, Julia the Elder....
, .

Lepidus married Caligula's sister Drusilla sometime in November or December of 37.






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Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, (6-39) was the son of consul
Roman consul

Consul was the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.During the time of ancient Rome as a Republic, the Consuls were the highest civil and military magistrates, serving as the head of government for the Republic....
 Lucius Aemilius Paullus. His step-sister Aemilia Lepida
Aemilia Lepida

Aemilia Lepida is the name of Roman Empire women belonging to the gens Aemilius. All but the first Aemilia Lepida lived in the imperial era....
 (through his adoption by his uncle, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus) was married to Emperor
Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
 Caligula's
Caligula

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , more commonly known by his nickname Caligula , was the third Roman Emperor, reigning from 16 March 37 until his assassination on 24 January 41....
 elder brother Drusus Caesar
Drusus Caesar

Drusus Julius Caesar, also referred to as Drusus III , was a member of a noble family of Ancient Rome. He was a son of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder....
. He was also great-grandson of Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus (consul of 50 BC and brother of the triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (triumvir)

Marcus Aemilius Lepidus ,born ca 90 BC died 13 BC, was a patrician Ancient Rome politician of the 1st century BC who rose to become a member of the Second Triumvirate and Pontifex Maximus....
). Some areas of his lineage are unclear. It is possible his great-grand uncle was Emperor
Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
 Augustus or that his great-grand mother was Augustus' first wife Scribonia
Scribonia

Scribonia was the daughter of Lucius Scribonius Libo and Cornelia Sulla . Her brother of the same name was consul and died in 34 BC. She was the second wife of Roman Emperor Augustus and the mother of his only natural child, Julia the Elder....
, .

Lepidus married Caligula's sister Drusilla sometime in November or December of 37. Little is known about him prior to this. Drusilla had been married to Lucius Cassius Longinus
Lucius Cassius Longinus (husband of Drusilla)

Lucius Cassius Longinus married the Roman emperor Caligula's sister Drusilla in 33 AD. Cassius came from an ancient and nobiles gens, the Cassius |Cassii]]....
 since 33 but the couple was ordered to divorce by the emperor, so that she could marry Lepidus. The marriage lasted until Drusilla's death in June of 38. They had no children. Because of this marriage, Lepidus had become a close friend to Caligula and his family. After the death of Gemellus
Tiberius Gemellus

Tiberius Julius Caesar Nero Gemellus, known as Tiberius Gemellus, was the son of Drusus Julius Caesar and Livilla, the grandson of Tiberius, and the cousin of Gaius Caligula....
 in 37, Lepidus was publicly marked by Caligula as his heir. In late 38, when the governor of Egypt Aulus Avilius Flaccus
Aulus Avilius Flaccus

Aulus Avilius Flaccus was the ?gyptus prefect appointed by Tiberius in 32 C.E. His rule coincided with the Jewish massacre in Alexandria in 38 C.E....
 was arrested, Lepidus successfully persuaded Caligula to exile Flaccus to Andros
Andros

Andros, or Andro , an island of the Greece archipelago, the most northerly of the Cyclades, approximately 10 km south east of Euboea, and about north of Tinos....
 rather than Gyarus
Gyarus

Gyarus, also called Gyaros, is a small Greek island in the Cyclades, a Greece island group in the Aegean Sea located south-east of the mainland of Greece....
.

However, this good-standing did not last. Sometime in 39, Caligula made public letters by his sisters Agrippina
Agrippina the Younger

Julia Agrippina; known as Agrippina Minor , was a great granddaughter of Emperor Augustus, great niece and adoptive granddaughter of Emperor Tiberius, sister to Emperor Caligula, wife of Emperor Claudius and mother of Emperor Nero....
 and Livilla
Julia Livilla

Julia Livilla or Julia Livia was the youngest child of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder and one of Caligula's sisters....
 that detailed an adulterous affair with Lepidus and a plot against the emperor. Lepidus was executed and Caligula's sisters were exiled. Agrippina was given the bones of Lepidus in an urn, and she carried them to Rome. Caligula sent three daggers to the Temple of Mars the Avenger to celebrate the death. In the Senate
Roman Senate

The Senate of the Roman Republic was a political institution in the ancient Roman Republic. According to the Greek historian Polybius, our principal source on the Constitution of the Roman Republic, the Roman Senate was the predominant branch of government....
, Vespasian
Vespasian

Titus Flavius Vespasianus, commonly known as Vespasian , was a Roman Emperor who reigned from 69 A.D. until his death in 79 A.D. Vespasian was the founder of the short lived Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 A.D....
 made a motion that the remains of Lepidus be thrown away instead of buried. The motion was carried and Lepidus was not given a proper burial.

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  • Susan Wood. "Diva Drusilla Panthea and the Sisters of Caligula." American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 99, No. 3 (Jul., 1995), pp. 457-482 The article is available online (subscription required) from the JSTOR database. Lepidus's date of death is given as 39 AD in the article.