Agrippa Postumus

Agrippa Postumus
Portrait of Agrippa Postumus (Musée Saint-Raymond)
Born	12 BC Rome, Italy
Died	August AD 14 (aged 24/25) Planasia, Italy
Names Marcus Agrippa Postumus (birth) Agrippa Julius Caesar (after adoption)
Dynasty	Julio-Claudian
Father	Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa Augustus (adoptive)
Mother	Julia the Elder

Marcus Agrippa Postumus (12 BC – AD 14),^{[note 1]} later named Agrippa Julius Caesar,^[1] was a grandson of Roman Emperor Augustus. He was the youngest child of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder. Augustus initially considered Postumus as a potential successor and formally adopted him as his heir, before banishing Postumus from Rome in AD 6 on account of his ferocia ("beastly nature").^[2] In effect, though not in law, the action cancelled his adoption and virtually assured Tiberius' emplacement as Augustus' sole heir. Postumus was ultimately executed by his own guards shortly after Augustus' death in AD 14.

Postumus was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, the first imperial family of the Roman Empire. His maternal grandparents were Augustus and his second wife, Scribonia. Postumus was also a maternal uncle of Emperor Caligula, who was the son of Postumus' sister Agrippina the Elder, as well as a great-uncle of Nero, the last Julio-Claudian emperor, whose mother, Agrippina the Younger, was Caligula's sister.

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