Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus of Rome 
Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus of was born in 8-1-10 BC Lugdunum (Lyon), Gaul. Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus of's father was Nero Claudius Drusus of Gaul and his mother was Antonia the Younger Minor of Rome. His paternal grandfather was Tiberius Claudius Nero Pontif of Rome and his paternal grandmother is Livia Drusilla of Rome; his maternal grandparents were Marcus Antonius (Marc Antony) of Rome and Octavia the Elder of Macedonia. He had a brother named Germanicus Julius Caesar of. He died in 10-13-54 AD.General Notes
Alias:<ALIA> /Claudius/ I
Cause of Death:<CAUS> Poisoned by Agrippina II
From the Fargo FORUM newspaper dated Sunday February 11,2001 quoting an
AP wire story from Baltimore:
"In the palaces of ancient Rome, it would have been the perfect crime:
The scheming wife of the emperor slips poisonous mushrooms onto the
ruler's plate, causing agonizing pain and ultimately death. Nearly 2,000
years later, the symptoms in the death of the Roman emperor Claudius were
on the plate of a medical researcher who was trying to solve the murder
at the University of Maryland's annual Clinicopathologic Conference.
Without knowing who the subject was, or even when he lived, Dr. William
A. Valente narrowed the illness down to muscarine poisoning. History
helped him fill in the blanks: Claudius died from eating a helping of
poisonous mushrooms served to him by his fourth wife, Agrippina, whose
notoriously cruel son Nero succeeded him on the throne...Claudius became
violently ill on Oct. 13 of the year 54 after devouring a large meal,
including a large helping of what were called Caesar's mushrooms. He
died within 12 hours. As their name suggests, Caesar's mushrooms were a
staple of thearistocratic Roman diet, Valente said. But Agrippina very
easily could have mixed some identical, deadly poisonous fungi into the
emperor's dish...The long list of symptoms Claudius suffered before his
death-extreme abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, excessive salivation,
low blood pressure and difficulty breathing-are consistent with muscarine
poisoning, Valente said. Historians ahve long suspected that Agrippina
had a role in Claudius' death, motivated by her desire to catapult Nero,
her son from a previous marriage, to the throne. She was acting in a
narrow window of opportunity, because Claudius' own son, Brittanicus, was
about to come of age to enter public life, said Richard Talbert, history
professor at the University of North Carolina..."
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- d. in 33-42 BC
- b. in Before 33 BC d. in 9 BC
- b. in 8-1-10 BC Lugdunum (Lyon), Gaul d. in 10-13-54 AD
- b. in 180-150 BC
- b. in 143 BC in Rome, Italy d. in 87 BC
- b. in 103 BC in Rome d. in 71 BC in Crete
- b. in 83-82 BC in Rome, Italy d. in 31-30 BC in Alexandria, Egypt
- b. in Before 11 BC d. in 37 AD
- d. in 58 BC
- b. in Before 58 BC d. in 11 BC
- d. in 44 BC
- b. in Before 44 BC
- d. in 85 BC Pisa, Italy
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They had a son and a daughter, named Drusus of and Genuissa Venessa Claudia of.
They had a son and a daughter, named Britannicus of and Octavia of.
Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus of and Agrippina the Younger of were married in a religious ceremony in 49 AD Rome.
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