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Messalina
Valeria Messalina (c.25-48): name of a Roman empress, wife of the emperor Claudius.
Life
- c.25 Born as the daughter of Marcus Valerius Barbatus and Domitia Lepida
- 39 Marries Claudius
- 40 Birth of Octavia
- 41 Death of Caligula; accession of Claudius; birth of Britannicus
- 42 Fall of Gaius Appius Iunius Silanus; fall of Julia Livilla
- 43 Overseer of the Vestal Virgins; fall of Julia Drusila and Catonius Justus
- 47 Fall of Valerius Asiaticus, Mnester, and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
- 48 Divorce from Claudius; marriage to Gaius Sillius; executed
- Damnatio memoriae