Livilla (13 BC-31 AD) was the only daughter of Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor, sister of the Roman emperor Claudius and the general Germanicus, and the wife of Gaius Caesar and Drusus Julius Caesar.
Biography[]
Claudia Livia Julia was born in Lugdunum, Gallia Lugdunensis, Roman Empire in 13 BC, the only daughter of Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor. In 1 BC, she married Gaius Caesar, Augustus' heir apparent, and she had grand aspirations for her future. However, Gaius died young in 4 AD, cutting short her plans. That same year, she was married to her cousin Drusus Julius Caesar, and they had three children, including Tiberius Gemellus. She felt resentment and jealousy against her sister-in-law Agrippina the Elder, the wife of her brother Germanicus, and she also deplored her younger brother Claudius, expressing her joking disbelief that he would one day become emperor after the augur Gnaeus Domitius predicted such. She had an attraction towards her cousin Agrippa Postumus, but, in 6 AD, her grandmother Livia convinced her to frame him for rape in order to ensure that a stronger ruler would inherit the throne. She went on to have an affair with the Praetorian Guard prefect Sejanus during the reign of her uncle Tiberius, and, in 31 AD, Tiberius allowed them to marry. However, that same year, Tiberius discovered that Sejanus planned to overthrow him, and he had Sejanus executed. Livilla was accused of poisoning her late husband Drusus, and she was then handed over to her mother Antonia, who locked her up in a room and starved her to death.