Julii Caesares

A subdivision of the patrician Julii family in the Roman Republic, the beginnings of the Julian side of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty. All its members had the nomen Julius and the cognomen Caesar and can only be told apart by numbers and differing praenomina.

Contents 1 Male members 1.1 Gaius 1.2 Lucius 1.3 Sextus 2 Female members 3 See also

Male members

Descendance (includes adoptions from Julius Caesar's posthumous adoption of his nephew Octavian):

Lucius Julius Libo (consul 267 BC)
 `--(Lucius Julius Libo)
     `--Numerius Julius Caesar (b. bef. 300 BC)
         `--Lucius Julius Caesar I
             `--Sextus Julius Caesar I (fl. 200 BC, military tribune, governor of Liguria)
                 |--Sextus Julius Caesar II (consul 156 BC)
                 |   `--Lucius Julius Caesar II
                 |       |--Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo (Vopiscus, c.130 BC - 87 BC, quaestor, aedile, killed by partisans of Marius)
                 |       `--Lucius Julius Caesar III (d. 87 BC, praetor 94 BC, consul 90 BC, killed by partisans of Marius)
                 |           `--Lucius Julius Caesar IV (d. aft. 43 BC, consul 63 BC) 
                 `--Gaius Julius Caesar I
                     `--Gaius Julius Caesar II (also had a daughter: Julia Caesaris, wife of Gaius Marius)
                         |--Sextus Julius Caesar III (d. 90 BC or 89 BC, consul 91 BC, military commander, supporter of Marius)
                         |   `--Sextus Julius Caesar IV (quaestor in 48 BC, military commander in Syria, friend of Julius Caesar)
                         `--Gaius Julius Caesar III (Strabo, c. 135 BC – 85 BC, quaestor, praetor, supporter of Marius)
                             `--Julius Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar IV, 100 BC – 44 BC, consul, dictator, etc.)
                                 |(by adoption)
                                 `--Augustus (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, 63 BC – AD 14, emperor)
                                     |(by adoption)
                                     |--Gaius Julius Caesar Vipsanianus (20 BC – AD 4)
                                     |--Lucius Julius Caesar Vipsanianus (17 BC – AD 2)
                                     `--Tiberius (Tiberius Caesar Augustus, 42 BC – AD 37, Emperor from AD 14)
                                         |--Drusus the Younger (Julius Caesar Drusus, 13 BC – AD 23, military commander, etc.)
                                         |(by adoption)
                                         `--Germanicus (Julius Caesar Claudianus Germanicus, 15 BC – AD 19, military commander, etc.)
                                             `--Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, AD 12 – AD 41, Emperor from AD 37)

Sorted by praenomen:

Gaius

Main article: Gaius Julius Caesar

• Julius Caesar the dictator, most famous member
• Augustus
• Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus

Lucius

See: Lucius Julius Caesar

Sextus

See: Sextus Julius Caesar

Female members

Main article: Julia Caesaris

Feminine names were their father's gens and cognomen declined in the female form, and so all female members are Julia Caesaris

See also

• Julius Caesar (disambiguation)