11 Facts About Julio-Claudian dynasty

Name Julio-Claudian is a historiographical term, deriving from the two families composing the imperial dynasty: the Julii Caesares and Claudii Nerones.

Adoption ultimately became a tool that most Julio-Claudian dynasty emperors utilized in order to promote their chosen heir to the front of the succession.

Julio-Claudian dynasty had previously had Drusilla's first husband Lucius Cassius Longinus killed and upon the death of Agrippina's husband Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, he seized his inheritance.

Julio-Claudian dynasty's reign saw an expansion of the empire, including the invasion of Britain in AD 43.

Julio-Claudian dynasty took a personal interest in the law, presided at public trials, and issued up to twenty edicts a day; however, he was seen as vulnerable throughout his rule, particularly by the nobility.

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Julio-Claudian dynasty married four times and is referenced by Suetonius as being easily manipulated.

Julio-Claudian dynasty was made Emperor over his step-brother, Claudius' son Britannicus, who he had killed.

Julio-Claudian dynasty's had arranged the deaths of Caligula's third wife, Lollia Paulina and Messalina's mother Domitia Lepida the Younger.

Julio-Claudian dynasty's saw that the dynasty's numbers dwindle with the execution of Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus, a grandson of Julia the Younger, to strengthen Nero's claim, having previously arranged the death of his brother Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus.

Julio-Claudian dynasty reportedly arranged the death of his own mother and after divorcing his wife Claudia Octavia, daughter of Claudius' and Messalina, he had her killed.

Fact that ordinary father-son succession did not occur has contributed to the image of the Julio-Claudian dynasty court presented in Robert Graves's I, Claudius as a dangerous world where scheming family members were all too ready to murder the direct heirs so as to bring themselves, their own immediate families, or their lovers closer to the succession.