Claudia Octavia (Classical Latin: CLAVDIA•OCTAVIA) (Late 39 or early 40-9 June 62) was a Roman Empress, stepsister and first wife to Roman Emperor Nero.
Octavia was the only daughter of Roman Emperor Claudius by his third marriage to his second cousin and Roman Empress Valeria Messalina. She was named in honor of her great-grandmother, Octavia Minor, the elder sister of Emperor Augustus. Her elder half-sister was Claudia Antonia and her full sibl...
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Claudia Octavia (Classical Latin: CLAVDIA•OCTAVIA) (Late 39 or early 40-9 June 62) was a Roman Empress, stepsister and first wife to Roman Emperor Nero.
Octavia was the only daughter of Roman Emperor Claudius by his third marriage to his second cousin and Roman Empress Valeria Messalina. She was named in honor of her great-grandmother, Octavia Minor, the elder sister of Emperor Augustus. Her elder half-sister was Claudia Antonia and her full sibling was Britannicus.
She was born in Rome. As a young girl, her father betrothed her to future praetor Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus, who was a descendant of Augustus.
Octavia's mother was executed in 48, for conspiring to murder her father. Claudius later remarried her paternal first cousin and his own niece Agrippina the Younger. Agrippina the Younger had a son from her first marriage, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (future Emperor Nero).
Agrippina the Younger, through her plotting and manipulating, ended the engagement between Octavia and...
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