Sister of the Roman emperor Claudius and daughter-in-law of emperor Tiberius
A Roman aristocrat twice married to heirs apparent, she stood at the center of the Julio-Claudian web — sister to an emperor, aunt to another, niece and daughter-in-law to a third — until accusations surfaced that she'd poisoned her second husband for her lover, the powerful Sejanus.
Born around 13 BC to Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor, Claudia Livia came into a family that would produce four emperors. Her siblings were Germanicus and Claudius; her nickname, Livilla, honored her grandmother Livia Drusilla. Her first marriage, to Augustus' grandson Gaius Caesar, ended with his death in AD 4. She married again to Drusus the Younger, son of Tiberius, binding her even tighter into the succession. Drusus died in AD 23, and later accounts claimed Livilla had poisoned him at the urging of Sejanus, the praetorian prefect who was her lover. When Sejanus fell from power in AD…
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