This generation of Julii Caesares has two consuls: Sextus Julius Caesar in 91 BC, and Lucius Julius Caesar the next year. Generation of Julius Caesar's grandfather Gaius Julius Caesar II and Lucius Julius Caesar II may have had Sextus Julius Caesar, the military tribune of 181 BC, as a common ancestor. ![]() ![]() After Tiberius, the remaining three emperors of the dynasty had, outside adoptions, ancestors in both the Julian and the Claudian families. The next generation had both Claudii with a Julia as ancestor, as Claudii adopted into the Julii Caesares family. In the Julio-Claudian dynasty of Roman emperors, the lineage of the Julii Caesares was separated from those of the Claudii up to Augustus' generation. Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Note that descendancy of the Julii Caesares before the generation of Julius Caesar's grandfather is in part conjectural, but as presented by scholars. Marriages between descendants of Sextus Julius Caesar and Claudii had occurred from the late stages of the Roman Republic, but the intertwined Julio-Claudian family tree resulted mostly from adoptions and marriages in Imperial Rome's first decades. All emperors of that dynasty descended from Julii Caesares and/or from Claudii. ![]() The Julio-Claudian dynasty was the first dynasty of Roman emperors. See also: Julii Caesares § Descendancy, and Family tree of Roman emperors § 27 BC – AD 192
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