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Quinctilius Varus

Publius Quinctilius Varus Minor (Minor Latin for the younger) was the only child to Roman general and politician 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....
from his second marriage to 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 ....
.

Through his mother he was the first cousin to Roman Empress Valeria Messalina, her brother Marcus Valerius Messala Corvinus, second cousin to Messalina’s children Claudia Octavia

Claudia Octavia

Claudia Octavia was a Roman Empress, stepsister and first wife to Roman Emperor Nero....
and 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....
. His second cousins were also Roman 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’ great grandchildren 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....
and 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...
.

He was 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 1-6 and was raised there.

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Publius Quinctilius Varus Minor (Minor Latin for the younger) was the only child to Roman general and politician Publius Quinctilius Varus

Publius Quinctilius Varus

Claudia Pulchra

Claudia Octavia

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

Britannicus

Roman Emperor

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....
and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus

Marcus Aemilius Lepidus

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 1-6 and was raised there. In 7, his father was appointed German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
Governor, and committed suicide two years later in September 9, due to his defeat at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest took place in 9 A.D. when an alliance of Germanic tribes led by Arminius, the son of Segimer of the Cherusci, ambushed and destroyed three Roman Empire Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus....
, Germania Inferior

Germania Inferior

Germania Inferior was a Ancient Rome Roman provinces located on the left bank of the Rhine, in today's southern and western Netherlands, parts of Flanders, and North Rhine-Westphalia left of the Rhine....
. His mother never remarried. In 26, his mother died in exile as a victim of the treason trials. Through his parents’ inheritance he became wealthy.

Younger Varus became another victim of Palace Guardsman Sejanus

Sejanus

Lucius Aelius Seianus , commonly known as Sejanus, was an ambitious soldier, friend and confidant of the Roman Emperor Tiberius. An Equestrian by birth, Sejanus rose to power as Praetorian Prefect of the Roman imperial bodyguard, known as the Praetorian Guard, of which he was commander from 14 AD until his death in 31....
' treason trials. In 27, he was charged with treason and condemned. His accuser was the celebrated orator Domitius Afer

Domitius Afer

Domitius Afer was a Roman Empire orator and advocate, born at Nemausus in Gallia Narbonensis. He flourished in the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero....
. Roman Emperor Tiberius

Tiberius

Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, born Tiberius Claudius Nero , was the second Roman Emperor, from the death of Augustus in AD 14 until his own death in 37....
did nothing to save his relative.

Source

Tacitus
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....
- The Annals of Imperial Rome