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The first of the family to obtain the consulship was Gaius Julius Iulus in 489 BC. The gens is perhaps best known, however, for Gaius Julius Caesar, the dictator and grand uncle of the emperor Augustus, through whom the name was passed to the so-called Julio-Claudian dynasty of the first century AD.
Gaius Julius Iullus was the son of Spurius Julius Iullus, and grandson of Vopiscus Julius Iulus, consul in BC 473. [3] [4] [ii] His uncle, Lucius Julius Iullus, was consular tribune in 438, magister equitum in 431, and consul in 430. [6] Gaius' brother, Lucius, was consular tribune in 403 BC. [7]
Lucius was the son of Vopiscus Julius Iulus, who had been consul in 473 BC, [ii] and grandson of the Gaius Julius Iulus who had been consul in 489. His uncle Gaius was consul in 482 BC, and the Gaius Julius Iulus who was consul in 447 and again in 435 was his cousin. He was the father of Lucius Julius Iulus, consular tribune in 401 and 397 BC.
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.
Julius' uncle, Vopiscus Julius Iullus, was consul in 473. Some of the Julii Iulli who followed Gaius in the chief magistracies over the next several decades may have been his descendants, but the only ones who attained the consulship and whose filiations are known were his uncle's son and grandson.
The Julii Iuli were the oldest branch of the ancient patrician Julia gens, and their magistracies span nearly a century and a half leading to Gaius' dictatorship. However, only one other member of the family is recorded following the sack of Rome by the Gauls in 390 BC: Lucius Julius Iulus, who was consular tribune in 388, and again in 379. [1]
Gaius Julius Iullus (fl. c. 489 BC) was a Roman politician from the early Republic. He was the first from the ancient patrician clan of the Julii to attain the consulship , which he held in 489 BC as the colleague of Publius Pinarius Mamercinus Rufus .
Lucius Julius Iulus was the son of Spurius, and grandson of Vopiscus, who had been consul, 473 BC. [2] His uncle, Lucius , was consul in 430, after serving as magister equitum the previous year, [ 3 ] and his brother, Gaius , was consular tribune in 408 and 405.