Agrippina Minor

Bust of Agrippina Minor (Louvre, Paris)

Agrippina Minor (15 or 16 CE - 59): name of a Roman empress, wife of the emperor Claudius, mother of Nero.

Life

6 November 15 or 16: Born in Cologne; daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina Maior
28: Marriage to Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus
32: Ahenobarbus consul
37: Birth of Nero
39: Exiled to the Pontian Isles (accused of adultery with Ofonius Tigellinus)
41: Death of Caligula; accession of Claudius; Agrippina returns; marriage to Gaius Passienus Crispus
44 Crispus consul II
49 Marriage to Claudius
50 Receives the title of Augusta; her place of birth, until then called Ara Ubiorum, is renamed Colonia Claudia Ara Agripinnensium
54: Death of Claudius; accession of Nero
March 59: Assassinated. She is buried near Misenum
Damnatio memoriae

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