Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus Nero of Rome 
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus Nero was born in Rome, Italy. Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus Nero's father is Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus II. His paternal grandfather was Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus I. He was an only child. He died in 0046 BC in Pharsalus, Macedonia.General Notes
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, consul 94 BC Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, son of Gn. Domitius Ahenobarbus cos 96 BC, husband of Porcia Catones the sister of Cato the younger, friend of Cicero and enemy of Julius Caesar, and a strong supporter of the aristocratical party. At first strongly opposed to Pompey, he afterwards sided with him against Caesar. He was consul in 54 BC, and in 49 he was appointed by the senate to succeed Caesar as governor of Gaul. After the outbreak of the civil war he commanded the Pompeian troops at Corfinium, but was obliged to surrender. Although treated with great generosity by Caesar, he stirred up Massilia (today's Marseille) to an unsuccessful resistance against him. After its surrender, he joined Pompey in Greece and was slain in the flight after the battle of Pharsalus, in which he commanded the right wing against Antony (Caesar, Bellum Civile, i., ii., iii.; Dio Cassius xxxix., xli.; Appian, B.C. ii. 82).
They had a son named Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus.
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