Editing Ancus Marcius (section)

==Death and successor==
Ancus Marcius is reported to have died of natural causes after a rule of 24 years.<ref name=":0">[[Livy]], ''[[ab urbe condita libri]]'', [[wikisource:From_the_Founding_of_the_City/Book_1|I]]</ref> He had two sons, one of which would likely take the throne. A member of Ancus' court, [[Lucius Tarquinius Priscus]], ensured that Ancus' sons would be out of Rome so he could put together an election where he would gain the support of the Roman people.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Penella |first1=Robert J. |title=The Ambitio of Livy's Tarquinius Priscus |journal=The Classical Quarterly |date=December 2004 |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=630–635 |id={{ProQuest|1035754534}} |doi=10.1093/clquaj/bmh068 }}</ref>

Ancus Marcius was succeeded by his friend Lucius Tarquinius Priscus,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bedoyere|first=Guy de la|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_rZ52tEMgg0C&q=Ancus+Marcius&pg=PT204|title=The Romans For Dummies|date=2011-02-18|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-119-99788-7|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Schmitz|first=Leonhard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3X0PAAAAYAAJ&q=Ancus+Marcius&pg=PA36|title=A History of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Commodus, A.D. 192|date=1847|publisher=Allen, Morrill and Wardwell|language=en}}</ref> who was ultimately assassinated by the sons of Ancus Marcius.<ref>[[Livy]], ''[[Ab urbe condita libri (Livy)|Ab Urbe Condita]]''</ref> Later, during the Republic and the Empire, the prominent [[Marcia gens|gens Marcia]] claimed descent from Ancus Marcius.