Marcus Aemilius Lepidus Minor

Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (father)
Junia Secunda (mother)

Marcus Aemilius Lepidus the Younger or Marcus Aemilius Lepidus Minor (/ˈlɛpɪdəs/; died 30 BC) was a son of triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and his wife Junia Secunda, a half-sister of Caesar's assassin Brutus.

Lepidus was executed by Octavian, the future Roman Emperor, in 30 BC, as a leader in a conspiracy against him. Velleius says that his wife Servilia committed suicide after her husband's death by swallowing burning hot coals.^[1]

Family

Lepidus had at least one younger brother and possibly a sister. He was likely the son whom his father had once engaged to Mark Antony's eldest daughter Antonia.^[2] He sat in the Roman Senate and was married to Servilia, who may have been the daughter of the Caesarian P. Servilius Isauricus and Junia Prima, his aunt.

Brutus family tree

Salonia (2)

Cato the Elder

Licinia (1)

Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus

Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus

Marcus Livius Drusus

Marcus Porcius Cato (2)

Livia

Quintus Servilius Caepio (1)

Marcus Livius Drusus

Atilia (1)

Cato the Younger

Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus,
adopted son

Marcus Junius Brutus (1)

Servilia

Decimus Junius Silanus (2)

Servilia

Gnaeus Servilius Caepio

Marcus Porcius Cato

Porcia

Marcus Junius Brutus†

Junia Prima

Junia Tertia

Gaius Cassius Longinus x

Junia Secunda

Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (triumvir)

Descendant of
Pompey and Sulla

son

Manius Aemilius Lepidus

Aemilia Lepida II

(1): 1st spouse

(2): 2nd spouse

†: assassin of Caesar

Notes:

References

^ Weigel, Richard D. , Lepidus: The Tarnished Triumvir, Routledge, New York, 1992, p. 96
^ Münzer, Friedrich (1999). Roman aristocratic parties and families. University of Michigan: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 340.