Lucius Aurelius Cotta

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Lucius Aurelius Cotta was born in 139 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 118 BC in Judea, Roman Republic.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • House: gens Aurelia
    • Life Event: 119 BC; Counsul of Rome
    • Life Event: 122 BC; Elected Praetor
    • FSID: LNDH-Z49

    Notes:

    Descendants
    He had at least one son of the same name, who was also a consul in 119 BC. Through his son's daughter Aurelia Cotta, he was the great-grandfather of the famous dictator Gaius Julius Caesar and great-great-grandfather of the first Roman Emperor Augustus.

    Lucius Aurelius Cotta (fl.Not much is known about the early career of Cotta, who was born into the Plebeian gens Aurelia. By 122 BC, he had been elected to the rank of Praetor,[1] and this was followed by his election as consul in 119 BC.
    During his tenure in office, he, along with his colleague Lucius Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus, opposed the passage of a law proposed by Gaius Marius, then a Plebeian tribune, which was meant to reform the configuration of the voting booths, thereby reducing the influence of the so-called Optimates. He asked the Senate to order Marius to present himself before them; when they did so, Marius responded by threatening to have Cotta imprisoned.[2] After Cotta's colleague Metellus was imprisoned on Marius’ orders, Cotta and the Senate backed down and allowed the passage of Marius’ law.
    During his year in office, Cotta may have fought alongside Metellus in the campaign against the Dalmatians; the remaining sources are unclear if he actually participated or not.[3] 2nd century BC) was a Roman Senator and military commander who was elected Roman consul in 119 BC.
    His father of the same name was consul in 144 BC. He had at least two children: one son with the same name who then become the consul in 65 BC and one daughter, Aurelia Cotta, who later was married to Gaius Julius Caesar and bore him three children, two of which were the dictator Julius Caesar and Julia Minor, the first Roman emperor Augustus's maternal grandmother.

    Family/Spouse: Rutilia Rufa Diroma. Rutilia (daughter of Publius Rutilius Rufus I and Livia Julia Drusilla Augusta) was born in 139 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 60 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; was buried in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Aurelia Cotta  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 21 May 120 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 31 Jul 54 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Aurelia Cotta Descendancy chart to this point (1.Lucius1) was born in 21 May 120 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 31 Jul 54 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • House: gens Aurelia
    • FSID: LHK2-SKH

    Notes:

    Aurelia (c. 120 – July 31, 54 BC) was the mother of Roman dictator Julius Caesar.
    Aurelia was a daughter of Rutilia and Lucius Aurelius Cotta or his brother, Marcus Aurelius Cotta. Her father was consul in 119 BC and her paternal grandfather of the same name was consul in 144 BC. The family of the Aurelii Cottae was prominent during the Roman Republican era. Her mother Rutilia, was a member of the gens Rutilia. They were of consular rank. Publius Rutilius Rufus was her maternal uncle.

    Three of her brothers were consuls: Gaius Aurelius Cotta in 75 BC, Marcus Aurelius Cotta in 74 BC and Lucius Aurelius Cotta in 65 BC.

    Aurelia married a praetor Gaius Julius Caesar. Her husband died 85 – 84 BC. Their children were:

    . Julia Major (102 - ? BC), wife of Pinarius and grandmother of Lucius Pinarius;
    . Julia Minor (101 – 51 BC), wife of Marcus Atius and grandmother of emperor Augustus;
    . Gaius Julius Caesar (100 – 44 BC), the Dictator perpetuo

    The historian Tacitus considered her an ideal Roman matron and thought highly of her, because she offered her children the best opportunities of education. Plutarch described her as a woman of discretion. Highly intelligent, independent and renowned for her beauty and common sense, Aurelia was held in high regard throughout Rome.

    Aurelia and her family were very influential in her son’s upbringing and security. Her husband, the elder Gaius Caesar, was often away, so the task of raising their son fell mostly on Aurelia's shoulders. When the younger Caesar was about 18, he was ordered by the then dictator of Rome, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, to divorce his young wife Cornelia Cinna, daughter of Lucius Cornelius Cinna who had supported Sulla's archenemy Marius. Young Caesar firmly refused, and by so doing, put himself at great risk from Sulla. Aurelia became involved in the petition to save her son, defending him along with her brother Gaius Cotta.

    After Cornelia's death in childbirth, Aurelia raised her young granddaughter Julia in her stead and presided as mistress over her son's households. Caesar subsequently married Pompeia Sulla, granddaughter of Sulla. In 62 BC, during the Bona Dea festival held at Caesar’s house, one of Cornelia's maid discovered that Publius Clodius had infiltrated the house while disguising as a woman, in order to start or continue an affair with her second daughter-in-law Pompeia. The two may have had certain improper relations before, but was subdued by Aurelia's close watch upon the women's residence. Clodius was later charged with the crime of sacrilege by Lucius Lentulus since his trespass caused the interruption of the sacrifice. Aurelia later appeared as a witness during the trial, along with Julia, testifying that she had ordered Clodius to leave.

    Family/Spouse: Gaius Julius Caesar III. Gaius (son of Gaius Julius Caesar II and Marcia Quinta Regina) was born in 21 May 140 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 7 Jan 85 BC in Pisa, Toscana, Italy; was buried in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 3. Julia Minor Caesarius  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 24 Jun 101 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 51 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.
    2. 4. Julia Antonia Caesaria  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 104 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 39 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.


Generation: 3

  1. 3.  Julia Minor Caesarius Descendancy chart to this point (2.Aurelia2, 1.Lucius1) was born in 24 Jun 101 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 51 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • House: gens Julia
    • FSID: L6BJ-CC6

    Family/Spouse: Marcus Atius Balbus. Marcus (son of Marcus Atius Balbus and Pompeia Lucilla) was born in 105 BC in Ariccia, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 51 BC in Roman Republic ( 509 BC - 27 BC ). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 5. Atia Balba Caesonia  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 85 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 43 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.

  2. 4.  Julia Antonia Caesaria Descendancy chart to this point (2.Aurelia2, 1.Lucius1) was born in 104 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 39 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • FSID: LNDP-FQX

    Notes:

    Spouses : Marcus Antonius Creticus & Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura
    Children :
    . Antonia
    . Marcus Antonius
    . Gaius Antonius
    . Lucius Antonius
    Parents : Lucius Julius Caesar (father) & Fulvia (mother)

    Julia (104 – after 39 BC) (sometimes also called "Julia Antonia" to distinguish her from other Juliae) was the mother of the triumvir general Mark Antony. She was the daughter of Lucius Julius Caesar (the consul of 90 BC) and Fulvia. She and her brother Lucius Julius Caesar (who was consul in 64 BC) were born and raised in Rome. Julia was a third-cousin of Julius Caesar (their great-grandparents Gaius and Sextus Julius Caesar were siblings).

    Julia married Marcus Antonius Creticus, a man of a senatorial family. Their sons were the triumvir Mark Antony, Gaius Antonius and Lucius Antonius. Because of their kinship through her, Gaius Julius Caesar was obliged to promote the political careers of her sons, despite his distaste for their father and his generally low opinion of their abilities. After Julia's first husband died about 70 BC, she married Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura, a politician who in 63 BC was involved in the Catilinarian conspiracy and was executed on the orders of Cicero.

    Plutarch describes her as one of "most nobly born and admirable women of her time". The following clause from Plutarch describes her relationship with her first husband:
    His father was Antony, surnamed of Crete, not very famous or distinguished in public life, but a worthy good man, and particularly remarkable for his liberality, as may appear from a single example. He was not very rich, and was for that reason checked in the exercise of his good nature by his wife. A friend that stood in need of money came to borrow of him. Money he had none, but he bade a servant bring him water in a silver basin, with which, when it was brought, he wetted his face, as if he meant to shave, and, sending away the servant upon another errand, gave his friend the basin, desiring him to turn it to his purpose. And when there was afterwards a great inquiry for it in the house, and his wife was in a very ill humour, and was going to put the servants one by one to the search, he acknowledged what he had done, and begged her pardon.
    — Plutarch, Antony 1

    Elsewhere Plutarch illustrates her character with an episode from the proscription of 43 BC, during the Second Triumvirate:
    His uncle, Lucius Caesar, being closely pursued, took refuge with his sister, who, when the murderers had broken into her house and were pressing into her chamber, met them at the door, and spreading out hands, cried out several times. "You shall not kill Lucius Caesar till you first dispatch me who gave your general his birth!" and in this manner she succeeded in getting her brother out of the way, and saving his life.
    — Plutarch, Antony 20

    During the Perusine War (modern Perugia) between 41 BC-40 BC, Julia left Rome, although Octavian (future Roman Emperor Augustus) treated her with kindness. She never trusted Sextus Pompeius. When Sextus Pompeius was in Sicily, Julia had sent to Greece for Antony, a distinguished escort and convoy of triremes. After the reconciliation of the triumvirs, Julia returned with Antony to Italy in 39 BC and was probably present at the meeting with Sextus Pompeius at Misenum.

    Julia married Marcus Antonius Creticus Octavia II in UNKNOWN in Roman Republic ( 509 BC - 27 BC ). Marcus (son of Marcus Antonius and Julia) was born in 103 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 69 BC in Crete, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 6. Marcus Antonius  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 14 Jan 83 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 1 Aug 30 BC in Alexandria, Egypt.


Generation: 4

  1. 5.  Atia Balba Caesonia Descendancy chart to this point (3.Julia3, 2.Aurelia2, 1.Lucius1) was born in 85 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 43 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • House: gens Atia
    • FSID: LD53-2LS

    Notes:

    Neice of Julius Caesar

    In her presence no base word could be uttered without grave offence, and no wrong deed done. Religiously and with the utmost delicacy she regulated not only the serious tasks of her youthful charges, but also their recreations and their games.

    Suetonius' account of Augustus mentions the divine omens she experienced before and after his birth:

    "When Atia had come in the middle of the night to the solemn service of Apollo, she had her litter set down in the temple and fell asleep, while the rest of the matrons also slept. On a sudden a serpent glided up to her and shortly went away. When she awoke, she purified herself, as if after the embraces of her husband, and at once there appeared on her body a mark in colours like a serpent, and she could never get rid of it; so that presently she ceased ever to go to the public baths. In the tenth month after that Augustus was born and was therefore regarded as the son of Apollo. Atia too, before she gave him birth, dreamed that her vitals were borne up to the stars and spread over the whole extent of land and sea, while Octavius dreamed that the sun rose from Atia's womb." (Suetonius:94:4)

    "The day he was born the conspiracy of Catiline was before the House, and Octavius came late because of his wife's confinement; then Publius Nigidius, as everyone knows, learning the reason for his tardiness and being informed also of the hour of the birth, declared that the ruler of the world had been born." (Suetonius:94:5)

    Atia was so fearful for her son's safety that she and Philippus urged him to renounce his rights as Caesar's heir. She died during her son's first consulship, in August or September 43 BC. Octavian honored her memory with a public funeral. Another Philippus, consul suffectus in 38 BC and the son of her second husband from a previous marriage, later married one of her sisters.

    Family/Spouse: Gaius Octavius. Gaius was born in 100 BC in Velletri, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 59 BC in Nola, Napoli, Campania, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 7. Octavia  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 61 BC in Nola, Napoli, Campania, Italy; died in 10 in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; was buried in 10 in Mausoleum of Augustus, Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.
    2. 8. Gaius Octavius  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 23 Sep 63 BC in Ox Head, Palatine Hill, Rome, Roman Republic; died on 19 Aug 14 in Nola, Napoli, Campania, Italy; was buried after 19 Aug 14 in Mausoleum of Augustus, Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.

  2. 6.  Marcus AntoniusMarcus Antonius Descendancy chart to this point (4.Julia3, 2.Aurelia2, 1.Lucius1) was born in 14 Jan 83 BC in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in 1 Aug 30 BC in Alexandria, Egypt.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Military: 46 BC; Magister equitum of the Roman Republic under Julius Caesar
    • Military: Between 54 BC and 30 BC; Proconsul in the Roman Army
    • House: gens Antonia
    • Life Event: 33 BC; Consul of the Roman Republic, served with Lucius Scribonius Libo
    • Life Event: 43 BC; Consul of the Roman Republic, with Julius Caesar
    • Life Event: Between 42 BC and 32 BC; Triumvir of the Roman Republic, served with Octavian and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
    • FSID: LVDH-133
    • Religion: Roman Paganism
    • Life Event: Between 1 and 7 Jan 48 BC; People's Tribune of the Roman Republic

    Notes:

    Spouses :
    Fadia (dates unknown)
    Antonia Hybrida (?–47 BC)
    Fulvia (46–40 BC)
    Octavia Minor (40–32 BC)
    Cleopatra VII (32–30 BC)

    Children :
    Antonia Prima (Hybrida)
    Marcus Antonius Antyllus (Fulvia)
    Iullus Antonius (Fulvia)
    Antonia Major (Octavia Minor)
    Antonia Minor (Octavia Minor)
    Alexander Helios (Cleopatra VII)
    Cleopatra Selene II (Cleopatra VII)
    Ptolemy Philadelphus (Cleopatra VII)

    Senator of Rome, Consort to Queen Cleopatra of Egypt
    Death • 1 August 0030 BC
    age 53, Killed Self By Falling On His Sword During A Battle at Alexandria, Egypt

    Military career
    Allegiance : Roman Republic, Julius Caesar, Populares
    Years : 54–30 BC
    Battles/wars :
    . Gallic Wars
    . Caesar's Civil War
    . Battle of Forum Gallorum
    . Battle of Mutina
    . Liberators' civil war
    . Antony's Parthian War
    . Battle of Actium
    . Battle of Alexandria

    Known for his rivalry with Octavian for the full control of Rome and its territories.

    -- Wikiwand: Mark Antony

    Marcus married Octavia in Bet. 31 BC-39 BC in Roman Republic ( 509 BC - 27 BC ). (daughter of Gaius Octavius and Atia Balba Caesonia) was born in 61 BC in Nola, Napoli, Campania, Italy; died in 10 in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; was buried in 10 in Mausoleum of Augustus, Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 9. Antonia Minor  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 31 Jan 36 BC in Athínai, Attiki, Attiki, Greece; died on 1 May 37 in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; was buried after 1 May 37 in Mausoleum of Augustus, Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.