Gaius Julius Caesar II
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Gaius Julius Caesar II, son of Gaius Julius Caesar I
, married to Marcia, sister of the consul Quintus Marcius Rex
. He was the father of Gaius Julius Caesar III, Sextus Julius Caesar III and Julia Caesaris
, wife of Gaius Marius
. He may be the Caesar who died suddenly one morning in Pisae, Italy, while putting on his shoes, but this is unlikely (given that this is cited to have happened during a praetorship - an office that he never held, being a senatorial backbencher all his life); other sources attribute his death to a growth in the throat and a special type of cancer.
Gaius Julius Caesar I
Gaius Julius Caesar I was the son of Sextus Julius Caesar I, and the father of Gaius Julius Caesar II. He was Praetor in 166 BC under the nomen Lucius.He was the great-grandfather of Julius Caesar, the last sole ruler of the Roman Republic.-See also:...
, married to Marcia, sister of the consul Quintus Marcius Rex
Quintus Marcius Rex
Quintus Marcius Rex was a member of the Marcii Reges, the family founded by the Roman King Ancus Marcius. His father, praetor in 144 BC, built the Aqua Marcia aqueduct, the longest aqueduct of ancient Rome...
. He was the father of Gaius Julius Caesar III, Sextus Julius Caesar III and Julia Caesaris
Julia Caesaris (wife of Marius)
Julia Caesaris was a daughter of Gaius Julius Caesar II and Marcia . She was a sister of Gaius Julius Caesar III and Sextus Julius Caesar III....
, wife of Gaius Marius
Gaius Marius
Gaius Marius was a Roman general and statesman. He was elected consul an unprecedented seven times during his career. He was also noted for his dramatic reforms of Roman armies, authorizing recruitment of landless citizens, eliminating the manipular military formations, and reorganizing the...
. He may be the Caesar who died suddenly one morning in Pisae, Italy, while putting on his shoes, but this is unlikely (given that this is cited to have happened during a praetorship - an office that he never held, being a senatorial backbencher all his life); other sources attribute his death to a growth in the throat and a special type of cancer.
See also
- Julii CaesaresJulii CaesaresJulii Caesares is a subdivision of the patrician Julii family in the Roman Republic, and the beginnings of the Julian side of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty...
- Julio-Claudian dynastyJulio-Claudian DynastyThe Julio-Claudian dynasty normally refers to the first five Roman Emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula , Claudius, and Nero, or the family to which they belonged; they ruled the Roman Empire from its formation, in the second half of the 1st century BC, until AD 68, when the last of the line,...
- Julio-Claudian family treeJulio-Claudian family treeThe Julio-Claudian dynasty of the early Roman Empire has a family tree complicated by multiple marriages between the members of the gens Julia and the gens Claudia.-Family tree:...