# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/britannicus
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:24:40.005Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/britannicus"
name: "Britannicus"
slug: "britannicus"
description: "The son of Emperor Claudius who never made it to fourteen. His stepbrother Nero had him poisoned the night before he would have come of age — one ancient source claims it was envy over the boy's singing voice."
tagline: "Son of Roman emperor Claudius and his third wife Valeria Messalina"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Britannicus-Louvre.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
birthDate: "1941-02-12"
deathDate: "1955-02-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             16.96003633060854
  historical:           21.674048
  currentAttention:     7.464285714285714
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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  - name: "Politician"
    slug: "politician"
  - name: "Politics"
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  - name: "Ancient History"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Britannicus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannicus"
    title: "Britannicus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ブリタンニクス"
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    title: "ბრიტანიკუსი"
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    title: "브리타니쿠스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit%C4%81niks"
    title: "Britāniks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit%C3%A1nico_(hijo_de_Claudio)"
    title: "Británico (hijo de Claudio)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 12 February AD 41 to Claudius and Valeria Messalina, Britannicus was in line to inherit the throne until his mother's scandal in 48, when her secret bigamous marriage came to light. The following year Claudius married Agrippina the Younger, who brought her own son into the family: Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, renamed Nero and adopted as heir. Britannicus was shunted aside, his sister Octavia married off to his stepbrother. When Claudius died in October 54, Nero took power. Three months later, on 11 February 55 — one day before his fourteenth birthday — Britannicus died suddenly at dinner. Every surviving account names poison, ordered by Nero, who saw Claudius' biological son as a living threat. Suetonius adds a motive both petty and strange: Nero couldn't bear that the boy sang better than he did.