Paullus Aemilius Lepidus
1st century BC Roman senator and consul
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Paullus Aemilius Lepidus[2][3] (c. 77 BC – after 11 BC) was a Roman senator.
- Sempronia Atratina[1]
- Cornelia
- Claudia Marcella Minor
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Biography
He was a grandson of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and Appuleia through their son Lucius Aemilius Paullus and his wife. His paternal uncle Marcus Aemilius Lepidus served as a member of the Second Triumvirate. He was named an augur in 35 BCE.[4] Paullus served as consul in 34 BC and censor in 22.[3] Paullus was in some way related to a Cassia.[5]
Paullus married Cornelia (c. 54 BC-16 BC). With Cornelia, Paullus had three children: Lucius Aemilius Paullus (c. 37 BC-14 AD) the husband of Julia the Younger and consul in AD 1; Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (c. 30 BC-33 AD), consul in AD 6; and a daughter Aemilia Paulla (c. 22 BC). Aemilia was married twice: first to Lucius Munatius Plancus, consul in AD 13; second to Publius Memmius Regulus.
Paullus was widowed in 18 BC, the same year Cornelia's brother Publius Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus was consul.[6] Not long after Cornelia's death, he married Claudia Marcella Minor, a daughter of Octavia the Younger, sister of the Roman emperor Augustus.[2] The marriage of Marcella and Paullus linked two honored republican houses and tied them closely to the imperial circle.[3] At some point after 11 BC, Marcella bore him a son, Paullus Aemilius Regulus,[7] who later served as a quaestor during the rule of the Roman emperor Tiberius.[8]