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The Julio-Claudian dynasty was the first dynasty of Roman emperors.All emperors of that dynasty descended from Julii Caesares and/or from Claudii.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.
The new emperor was a great grandson of Augustus through his mother Agrippina the Elder thus making him a Julian but he was also a Claudian through his father Germanicus being the son of Livia's younger son Drusus the Elder. More commonly remembered in history by his childhood nickname Caligula, he was the third Roman Emperor ruling from AD 37 ...
The House of Chigi (IPA:) is an Italian princely family of Sienese origin descended from the counts of Ardenghesca, [2] which possessed castles in the Maremma, southern Tuscany. Later, the family settled in Rome. The earliest authentic mention of them is in the 13th century, with one Alemanno, counsellor of the Republic of Siena.
Italy was the first country to establish a diplomatic mission in Malta and the first to appoint a resident ambassador (since then resident at Villa Bel Air in Ta' Xbiex) after Malta achieved independence and became a full member of the UN. On December 1, 1964, that the first Italian ambassador presented his credentials to the governor general ...
Saint Julian the Hospitaller [a] is a saint venerated in the Catholic Church [1] and Eastern Orthodox Church. [4] [5] He is the patron saint of the cities of Ghent, Belgium; Saint Julian's, Malta; and Macerata, Italy.
The Steuben County Historical Society fell victim to the prank-prone Sons of Malta while deciphering and researching a note from 1860.
The many Julii of imperial times, who were not descended from the gens Julia, did not limit themselves to the praenomina of that family. The imperial family set the example by freely mingling the praenomina of the Julii with those of the gens Claudia , using titles and cognomina as praenomina, and regularly changing their praenomina to reflect ...
Jenny marries Ian Murray, a close friend of Jamie's, and they have seven children, including Ian Fraser Murray, called Young Ian, who at the time of the start of Outlander season seven, is in America.