Editing Vitellius (section)

==Personal life==
He married firstly a woman named [[Petronia gens|Petronia]], who was the daughter of an ex-consul. They had a son, Aulus Vitellius Petronianus, who was blind in one eye. He was the universal heir of his mother and grandfather, but Vitellius had him killed in 69 in order to inherit his fortune. He married secondly, around the year 50, a woman named [[Galeria Fundana]], perhaps the granddaughter of [[Gaius Galerius]], Prefect of Egypt in 23.<ref>[[Suetonius]], Vitellius, 6</ref> They had two children, a son, who was named as heir and was given the title ''Germanicus'',<ref>Tacitus, ''Histories'' 2, 59</ref> and a daughter, [[Vitellia (daughter of emperor Vitellius)|Vitellia]], who married [[Decimus Valerius Asiaticus (Legatus)|Decimus Valerius Asiaticus]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bowman |first=Alan K. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JZLW4-wba7UC&pg=PA273 |title=The Cambridge Ancient History |date=1996 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-26430-3 |volume=10 |pages=273}}</ref>