Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa

63 BC – 12 BC · Generation III · General and right hand of Augustus · Julio-Claudian

Marcus Vipsanius (63 BC – 12 BC). General and right hand of Augustus. Married Julia around 21 BC. Won Actium for Augustus and built the first Pantheon; his sons Gaius and Lucius, adopted by Augustus, were meant to inherit the empire. Of plebeian stock from the Italian countryside, he was Octavian’s exact contemporary and fellow pupil, and was with him at Apollonia when news came in 44 BC of Caesar’s murder. He raised troops for his friend, fought in the Perusine war, governed Transalpine Gaul, and was made consul for 37 BC, far below the usual age, to prepare the war against Sextus Pompeius, whom he defeated at Mylae and Naulochus. After Actium his powers grew until, by 18 BC, he held proconsular authority and tribunician power nearly equal to Augustus’s own. He restored the aqueducts, laid out baths, porticoes and gardens, and completed a survey of the empire that yielded a map engraved in marble. Married first to Caecilia Attica and then to Augustus’s niece Marcella before Julia, he died in Campania in 12 BC, and Augustus placed his remains in his own mausoleum.

Place in the family

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa married Julia the Elder, a daughter of Augustus Caesar.
The archive records 4 of his descendants, across 3 generations.

One of 17 people of Julio-Claudian (85 BC–68) in this archive. Rome’s first imperial family: the Julii and the Claudii joined by marriage and adoption, Augustus to Nero.

Partners

Married Julia the Elder (39 BC – 14) in 21 BC — one child together

Children

Agrippina the Elder (14 BC – 33)

Life

63 BC — Born
21 BC — Married Julia
12 BC — Died