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Thusnelda was the daughter of the pro-Roman Cheruscan prince Segestes.In 9 AD, Arminius, Thusnelda's future husband, who had been given by his father to the Romans as a child and raised as a Roman military commander serving under Publius Quinctilius Varus, switched sides to the Germans, and led a coalition of Germanic tribes that defeated the legions of Varus at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
The agnomen Germanicus was added to his full name in 9 BC when it was posthumously awarded to his father in honor of his victories in Germania. In AD 4 he was adopted by his paternal uncle Tiberius , himself the stepson and heir of Germanicus' great-uncle Augustus ; ten years later, Tiberius succeeded Augustus as Roman emperor .
Julia Drusilla (16 September 16 – 10 June 38 AD) was a member of the Roman imperial family, the second daughter and fifth child of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder to survive infancy. She was the favorite sister of Emperor Caligula , who, after her death, had her deified under the name Diva Drusilla Panthea , and named his daughter Julia ...
Julia Drusilla (Classical Latin: IVLIA•DRVSILLA; [1] middle of AD 39 – 24 January 41), sometimes known as Drusilla the Younger (Classical Latin: DRVSILLA•MINOR; transcribed as Drusilla Minor) during her lifetime, was the only child and daughter of Roman Emperor Gaius and his fourth and last wife Milonia Caesonia. The one-year-old Julia ...
The Wife of Arminius Brought Captive to Germanicus by Benjamin West, 1773.Segestes is dressed in yellow. Segestes was a nobleman of the Germanic tribe of the Cherusci involved in the events surrounding the Roman attempts to conquer northern Germany during the reign of Augustus and then Tiberius.
Thusnelda at the Triumph of Germanicus, by Karl von Piloty, 1873.The infant Thumelicus is depicted standing next to his mother. Thumelicus (born AD 15; died before AD 47, probably in 30 or 31 [citation needed]) was the only son of the Cherusci leader Arminius and his wife Thusnelda, daughter of the pro-Roman tribal leader Segestes.
She was the great-granddaughter of Augustus (the first Roman emperor) and the daughter of the Roman general Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder. Her father, Germanicus, was the nephew and heir apparent of the second emperor, Tiberius. Agrippina's brother Caligula became emperor in AD 37. After Caligula was assassinated in AD 41, Germanicus ...
[5] [6] Munatia Plancina was supposed to have been in contact with a Syrian called Martina who prepared the poison to be used to kill Germanicus. [7] As Germanicus was dying (10 October 19 AD) he was said to have suspected Piso and his wife of having him poisoned. [8] [9] The death of Germanicus supposedly gave Munatia Plancina a lot of pleasure.