- Rubellia Bassa
Rubellia Bassa or Bussa (born between 33-38) was the daughter of
Gaius Rubellius Blandus , consul in 18 and his wife Julia (killed 43); she was the granddaughter of Roman princeJulius Caesar Drusus and the great-granddaughter ofRoman Emperor Tiberius and his brotherNero Claudius Drusus .Imperial ancestry
Her mother Julia (daughter of
Julius Caesar Drusus andLivilla ) and thus the granddaughter ofTiberius . Her brother Gaius Rubellius Plautus, one of the nearest heirs of the blood of Augustus, was forced to kill himself in 62 and his wife Antistia Pollitta and children were executed four years later (probably because the children were direct descendants ofRoman Emperors Augustus and Tiberius).Marriage and possible descendants
She married Octavius Laenas, maternal uncle of the future emperor
Nerva . Little else is known of the life of this great-granddaughter of Tiberius. HistorianRonald Syme claims that Sergius Octavius Laenas Pontianus, consul in 131 under EmperorHadrian , set up a dedication to his grandmother, "Rubellia Blandi Bassa Octavi Laenatis". This Rubellia Bassa, Syme states, must be identical with the great-granddaughter of Tiberius. [Syme: Tacitus, Oxford University Press, 1958, p. 627-8] This obscure link is probably the only continuation of the Julio-Claudian bloodline in the 2nd century.References
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