Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (husband of Claudia Antonia)
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (* shortly before AD 26; † end of 46 or early 47 AD ) was a son of the Roman emperor Claudius and arrived at his well- made at the instigation of Claudius ' wife Valeria Messalina fall along with his parents killed.
Life
Pompey was a son of the consul of AD 27, Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi, and his wife Scribonia. He was probably the eldest son of his parents and had several siblings, among other things, named after his father later consul of 64 Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi, and Licinius Crassus and Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi Scribonianus Licinianus. It is named after the famous Pompey Magnus same triumvirs to which his mother Scribonia back led, as ever his father had the habit to present their entire princely obvious pedigree in the names of his children.
Because of his name, which could be understood as a dangerous program, Pompey Magnus was almost killed on Caligula's command, but saved him from ruin his youth: the emperor was content with the fact that the boy be cognomen Magnus ( = " the Great") no longer allowed to run. Under Caligula's successor Claudius, however, Pompey Magnus learned as well as his parents a big promotion. He was allowed to wear his nickname again and was already in the first year of the reign of the new emperor ( AD 41 ), married to his daughter Antonia. Furthermore, Claudius granted him the privilege of imperial princes, to be allowed to apply for five years before the statutory age for state offices. After the successful campaign against Britain ( AD 43 ) on which Pompey's father Crassus Frugi had participated as comes Augusti, the Emperor sent his two sons Lucius Junius Silanus and Pompey the Great, who with Claudius ' daughter Octavia was betrothed, to About Brin narrowing ahead of the news of victory to Rome. Pompey Magnus was now Quaestor of Claudius, Pontifex and frater Arvalis and represented 45 AD with Junius Silanus the emperor at a Congiarium.
Were Pompey Magnus and his family so far overwhelmed by Claudius with honors and privileges, so it was the end of 46 or early 47 AD to its sudden fall. The precise details of this event are unknown, since that book of Tacitus ' Annals, in which it was shown, is lost. According to a less probable version of the fall was supposedly because Pompey had been been homosexual tendencies and surprised with another young man in bed. Rather, the Empress Valeria Messalina should ' have been sinking the originator of Pompey, as they considered him a dangerous rival for the succession of her own son Britannicus. How Pompeius Magnus was put to death is not known, nor the circumstances of his death his parents, who then also died. He was buried at the Porta Salaria in the family grave of a branch of Licinius.