Editing Agrippina the Younger (section)

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Agrippina was the first daughter and fourth living child of Agrippina the Elder and [[Germanicus]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Franzero |first=Carlo Maria |url=https://archive.org/details/lifetimesofnero0000carl |title=The Life and Times of Nero |publisher=Merritt & Hatcher |year=1956 |location=High Wycombe and London |page=16}}</ref>

She had three elder brothers, [[Nero (son of Germanicus)|Nero Caesar]], [[Drusus Caesar]], and the future emperor [[Caligula]], and two younger sisters, [[Julia Drusilla]] and [[Julia Livilla]]. Agrippina's two eldest brothers and her mother were victims of the intrigues of the Praetorian Prefect [[Lucius Aelius Sejanus]].

She was the namesake of her mother. Agrippina the Elder was remembered as a modest and heroic matron, who was the second daughter and fourth child of [[Julia the Elder]] and the statesman [[Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa]]. The father of Julia the Elder was the emperor Augustus, and Julia was his only natural child from his second marriage to [[Scribonia (wife of Augustus)|Scribonia]], who had close blood relations with [[Pompey the Great]] and [[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]].

Germanicus, Agrippina's father, was a very popular general and politician. His mother was [[Antonia Minor]] and his father was the general [[Nero Claudius Drusus]]. He was Antonia Minor's first child. Germanicus had two younger siblings: [[Livilla (sister of Claudius)|Livilla]] and [[Claudius]], making the pair Agrippina's aunt and uncle, respectively. Not only would Claudius later serve as [[list of Roman emperors|Roman emperor]], he would also go on to take Agrippina, his own niece, as his wife.

Antonia Minor was a daughter to [[Octavia the Younger]] by her second marriage to triumvir [[Mark Antony]], and Octavia was the second eldest sister and full-blooded sister of Augustus. Germanicus' father, [[Nero Claudius Drusus|Drusus the Elder]], was the second son of the Empress [[Livia]] Drusilla by her first marriage to praetor [[Tiberius Claudius Nero (father of Tiberius Caesar)|Tiberius Nero]], and was the emperor [[Tiberius]]'s younger brother and Augustus's stepson.

In the year AD 9, Augustus ordered Tiberius to adopt Germanicus, who happened to be Tiberius's nephew, as his son and heir. Germanicus was a favourite of Augustus, who hoped that he would succeed Tiberius, who was Augustus's adopted son and heir and then emperor following Augustus' death in AD 14. This in turn meant that Tiberius was also Agrippina's adoptive grandfather in addition to her paternal great-uncle.