JULII CAESARES

A subdivision of the patrician Julii family in the Roman Republic, the beginnings of the Julian side of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty. All its members had the nomen Julius and the cognomen Caesar and can only be told apart by numbers and differing praenomina.

Contents

Male members

Gaius

Lucius

Sextus

Female members

See also

Male members

Descendance (includes adoptions from Julius Caesar's posthumous adoption of his nephew Octavian):
Lucius Julius Libo (consul 267 BC)
`--(Lucius Julius Libo)
`--Numerius Julius Caesar (b. bef. 300 BC)
`--Lucius Julius Caesar I
`--Sextus Julius Caesar I (fl. 200 BC, military tribune, governor of Liguria)
|--Sextus Julius Caesar II (consul 156 BC)
| `--Lucius Julius Caesar II
| |--Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo (Vopiscus, c.130 BC - 87 BC, quaestor, aedile, killed by partisans of Marius)
| `--Lucius Julius Caesar III (d. 87 BC, praetor 94 BC, consul 90 BC, killed by partisans of Marius)
| `--Lucius Julius Caesar IV (d. aft. 43 BC, consul 63 BC)
`--Gaius Julius Caesar I
`--Gaius Julius Caesar II (also had a daughter: Julia Caesaris, wife of Gaius Marius)
|--Sextus Julius Caesar III (d. 90 BC or 89 BC, consul 91 BC, military commander, supporter of Marius)
| `--Sextus Julius Caesar IV (quaestor in 48 BC, military commander in Syria, friend of Julius Caesar)
`--Gaius Julius Caesar III (Strabo, c. 135 BC – 85 BC, quaestor, praetor, supporter of Marius)
`--'Julius Caesar' (Gaius Julius Caesar IV, 100 BC – 44 BC, consul, dictator, etc.)
|''(by adoption)''
`--Augustus (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, 63 BC – AD 14, emperor)
|''(by adoption)''
|--Gaius Julius Caesar Vipsanianus (20 BC – AD 4)
|--Lucius Julius Caesar Vipsanianus (17 BC – AD 2)
`--Tiberius (Tiberius Caesar Augustus, 42 BC – AD 37, Emperor from AD 14)
|--Drusus the Younger (Julius Caesar Drusus, 13 BC – AD 23, military commander, etc.)
|''(by adoption)''
`--Germanicus (Julius Caesar Claudianus Germanicus, 15 BC – AD 19, military commander, etc.)
`--Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, AD 12 – AD 41, Emperor from AD 37)
Sorted by praenomen:

Gaius

Main articles: Gaius Julius Caesar


★ Julius Caesar the dictator, most famous member

★ Augustus

★ Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus

Lucius

:''See: Lucius Julius Caesar''

Sextus

:''See: Sextus Julius Caesar''

Female members

Main articles: Julia Caesaris

Feminine names were their father's ''gens'' and ''cognomen'' declined in the female form, and so all female members are Julia Caesaris

See also

★ Julius Caesar (disambiguation)