Julia Agrippina

Julia Agrippina

ROMAN PATRICIAN Born 6 November AD 15
Oppidum Ubiorum Cologne's history can be traced back to a time around Cologne was an imperial seat (260-274) under the rule of Marcus Cassianus Latinius Postumus and his successors, the former being the first emperor of the Gallic Empire (Imperium Galliarum) that emerged 260 AD when the western provinces of the Roman Empire broke away from Rome. when the Roman Emperor Augustus and his imperial governor Agrippa decided to found a new city where the Rhine emerges from the narrow river valley into the plain. She was recalled by her uncle Claudius, who married her in 49. Aided by the financial secretary Marcus Antonius Pallas, Seneca (the Younger), Receiving for herself the title Augusta, she persuaded Claudius to adopt Nero as guardian of his own son Britannicus. She was generally believed to have poisoned Claudius, to make room for Nero (54). In the first years of Nero's rule she was almost co-regent with him but, after Pallas had fallen in 55 and Burrus and Seneca turned against her, she lost her power. In March 59 she was murdered , to acting on Nero's instructions. She wrote an autobiography.

Please note The circumstances that surround Agrippina's death are uncertain due to historical contradictions and . All surviving stories of Agrippina's death contradict themselves and each other, and are generally fantastical as young and old militar to acting agaist Nero's.