Agrippina
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Niece of Claudius whom he married, setting a legal precedent.
A man may marry his brother’s daughter, a practice first introduced when Claudiusmarried his brother’s daughter Agrippina, but may not marry his sister’s daughter, a distinction laid down in imperial constitutions, nor may he marry his father’s sister or his mother’s sister.
idque primum in usum uenit, cum diuus Claudius Agrippinam fratris sui filiam uxorem duxisset;
Brother and sister, indeed, are prohibited from intermarriage whether they are born of the same father and mother or have only one parentin common:
Antony
Daughter of Germanicus, mother of Lucius Domitius by Ahenobarbus, and later wife of Claudius Caesar.
of these, Claudius afterwards came to the throne, and of the children of Germanicus, Caius reigned with distinction, but for a short time only, and was then put to death with his wife and child, and Agrippina, who had a son by Ahenobarbus, Lucius Domitius, became the wife of Claudius Caesar.