Claudia Marcella Minor

Claudia Marcella Minor
SpousePublius Claudius Pulcher (possibly)
Marcus Valerius Messalla Appianus
Paullus Aemilius Lepidus
Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus (possibly)
IssueClaudia Pulchra
Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus
Paullus Aemilius Regillus
Valeria Messallia (possibly)
HouseJulio-Claudian dynasty
FatherGaius Claudius Marcellus
MotherOctavia the Younger
Roman imperial dynasties
Julio-Claudian dynasty
Chronology
27 BC – AD 14
AD 14–37
AD 37–41
AD 41–54
AD 54–68
Preceded by
Roman Republic		 Followed by
Year of the Four Emperors

Claudia Marcella Minor[a] (PIR2 C 1103, born some time before 39 BC) was a niece of the first Roman emperor Augustus. She was the second surviving daughter of the emperor's sister Octavia the Younger and her first husband Gaius Claudius Marcellus. Marcella had many children by several husbands, and through her son Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus she became the grandmother of the empress Messalina.

  1. ^ Kokkinos, Antonia Augusta: Portrait of a Great Roman Lady, p. 67
  2. ^ Lightman, A to Z of Ancient Greek and Roman Women, p. 205


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