Name Marcus Messalla | ||
Marcus Valerius Messala Barbatus was a Roman Senator and father of Messalina.
Family
Messala was the son of Claudia Marcella Minor and Marcus Valerius Messalla Appianus. Marcella was the daughter of Gaius Claudius Marcellus and Octavia the Younger, the sister of Augustus and great-niece of Julius Caesar. Through his mother Messala was related to the Julio-Claudian Dynasty. Messala also had a sister Claudia Pulchra who married Publius Quinctilius Varus.
Messala later married his first cousin once removed Domitia Lepida the Younger and together they became the parents of Roman Empress Valeria Messalina, wife of the Emperor Claudius.
References
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