Julia's other daughter

[Octavia]

Hi everyone. I read that besides Agrippina the elder, Julia had another daughter called Julia? Who was she and does anyone know anything about her?

[Ingsoc]

Julia Minor was born about 19 BC, she was married Lucius Aemillius Paullus who was the consul of 1 AD, she was exiled in 8 AD as she was found guilty of adultry. in exile she gave birth but Augustus regected theinfant and had it killed.

 

From the fact that her husband was executed at the same time that she was send to exile who can assume that at least some of her crimes were of a political nature.

[Octavia]

Thanks for the interesting info. It really helps a lot.

[ASCLEPIADES]

Thanks for the interesting info. It really helps a lot.

Salve, Amici.

 

Additionally, she was almost the mother-in-law of the future emperor Claudius:

(C. Suetonius T., De Vita XII Caesarum, Divus Claudius, Cp. XXVI, sec. I):

 

"He (Claudius) was betrothed twice at an early age: to Aemilia Lepida, great-granddaughter of Augustus, ... He put away the former before their marriage, because her parents had offended Augustus;"

[Octavia]

Interestingg. Any info on Elemia Lepeda?

[Nephele]

Interestingg. Any info on Elemia Lepeda?

 

Since women in the ancient world were more often than not identified and defined through the male line of their ancestry, I can add to what Ascelpiades posted above by stating that Aemilia Lepida (betrothed to Claudius) came from a long and distinguished line of the patrician Aemilii Lepidi.

 

In addition to her mother having been the granddaughter of Augustus, her father was Lucius Aemilius Paullus, consul in 1 CE (her uncle, too, was consul some years later). Her paternal grandfather had been a consul (34 BCE), her paternal great-grandfather had been a consul (50 BCE), and her paternal great-great-grandfather had been a consul (78 BCE). While her paternal great-great-great grandfather hadn't been a consul himself, his two brothers had been consuls (137 BCE and 126 BCE). Their grandfather in turn had twice been a consul (187 BCE and 175 BCE), and his grandfather had been consul (232 BCE).

 

And, finally, the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather of Aemilia Lepida, was the first of the Aemilii Lepidi to be elected consul (285 BCE). (Ref. the Stemma Lepidorum, from Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, and Chris Heaton's List of Consuls on the UNRV website.)

 

Aemilia Lepida's family sadly suffered disgrace through her father (not to mention her mother, too), as Suetonius tells us in his Life of Augustus that Aemilia's father had been one of the ringleaders of a conspiracy against the emperor:

 

"After this he nipped in the bud at various times several outbreaks, attempts at revolution, and conspiracies, which were betrayed before they became formidable. The ringleaders were, first the young Lepidus, then Varro Murena and Fannius Caepio, later Marcus Egnatius, next Plautius Rufus and Lucius Paulus, husband of the emperor's granddaughter..."

 

-- Nephele