Claudia Marcella

Claudia Marcella, the Younger (Latin Claudia Marcella Minor) (c. 39 BC) was a Roman noblewoman.

Life

Claudia Marcella Minor ( = the Younger ) received in modern literature the epithet Minor, to distinguish them from their eponymous older sister Claudia Marcella Maior can. Both were daughters of Gaius Claudius Marcellus and Octavia Minor, the sister of Emperor Augustus.

Claudia Marcella Minor, who was born after her father's death, possibly first went a marriage with a Ignotus. Then Aemilius Lepidus Paullus married, probably the Suffektkonsul the year 34 BC, who was considerably older than her. Him she gave birth to Paullus Aemilius Regillus. After the death of her husband she married the consul of 12 BC, Marcus Valerius Messala Barbatus Appianus († 12 BC in office), and bore him the following children:

• Marcus Valerius Messala barbatus, the father of Valeria Messalina, third wife of the Emperor Claudius.
• Claudia Pulchra, the Publius Quinctilius Varus, the big loser of the Varus Battle, married.

Numerous inscriptions of slaves and freedmen of Claudia Marcella are preserved in a tomb near Rome.