Cornelia

Cornelia was born around 97 BC, daughter of Lucius Cornelius Cinna, which tied her to the inner circle of late Republican power. She married Julius Caesar early, when he was still a minor patrician, and gave him Julia, his sole legitimate child. She died around 69 BC, roughly a quarter-century before her husband would cross the Rubicon or fall in the Senate. By blood and marriage she was woven into the network of families that would tear the Republic apart, but she left the stage before the final act.