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Servilia's Mother is Livia
I have found very little about her dates of birth and death, but assume
that she survived both husbands, as she would have been substantially younger
than them.
Servilia's grandfather is M.Livius Drusus.
Cos 112, Censor 109. He is Gaius Gracchus' opponent.
He dies during the Censorship in 109AD.
Servilia's uncle is M.Livius Drusus the younger
Tribunus plebis: 91 BC.
He advocated the reform of the equestrian courts. He also supported the
Itali's demands for citizenship. But made a lot of enemies (incl. his brothers-in-law)
and was murdered while being tribune of the people.
(I can't find any children, so Livia as his closest relative at the time
would have inherited from him at this point, she would also have inherited
the role of the patrons of the Itali and would have handed this one on to
her children. This is a non-negotiable obligation - if called upon her decendants
should act on their behalf).
Livia's first husband and Servilia's father is M.
Servilius Caepio
Quaestor urbanus in 100BC. After first supporting the senators, after two
lawsuits changes sites and fights with the equestrians against his brother-in-law
M.Livius Drusus. He gets killed in the social war in BC90.
Livia must have divorced M.Servilius Caepio and was married to Cato by
95BC (no idea if this is the origin or the fall-out between her first husband
and Livius Drusus). Servilia is born ca. 100BC, so she would have been 8
when her step-father died, 9 when her uncle died and 10 when her father died).
(by this time Servilia and her brother would have inherited all his wealth)
Servilia had a brother: Quintus (?) Servilius Caepio
who was a military tribune in the war against Spartacus
and later a quaestor to Pompey (in 67 BC)
But he died in Thrace.
Servilia's son Brutus was adopted by her brother (possibly after
the execution of M.Iunius Brutus in 77BC) and would have inherited
all his wealth at this point (aged c. 20).
Livia's second husband is M. Porcius Cato
was tribune of the plebs in 99, a great friend of Sulla, and had
a major fall out with is brother-in-law, M. Livius Drusus. But died
before him (91 BC)
(Having married into the most conservative family in Rome Servilia
would probably have married in manu. Which means she would have inherited
as joint heir together with Servilia's half-brother Cato Uticensis
and his sister Porcia)
Livia has two children with Cato: Cato Uticensis
(born in 95BC) and a sister PORCIA (died
in 45BC).
She is married to L.Domitius Ahenobarbus (who
dies in the real world in 48BC at Pharsalos). He is a stout ally of Cato
Uticensis and hated Caesar, especially as Caesar 'stole' his
consulate in 55BC (he got it in 54BC instead). The senate in 49BC made him
Caesar's successor in Gaul etc. (but then the civil war started).
The child of Porcia and
L.Domitius Ahenobarbus is Cn.Domitius Ahenobarbus the younger
, who is involved with the Ides of March (surprised?). He is old enough
to take part in the civil war in 49 and gets pardoned by Caesar.
The Servilii claim descent on immigrants to Rome during the Royal periods.
The Servilii even claim to come from Alba Longa, making the family older
than Rome
The Porcii Catones claim to be from Tusculum in Etruria.
the Domitii Ahenobarbi claim to be the conquerors of Gallia Narbonensis.
I can't find any information on who brought the children up after 90BC,
I assume it is Livia and her brother, but that is not proven.
Servilia is married twice by 85BC she is married to
M.Iunius Brutus (tribunus plebis in 83BC), who
founded the colony in CAPUA (which makes his descendants the patrons of
Capua), killed after the surrender of Mutina by Pompey in 77BC.
At this point Brutus, Servilia's son (aged 7 or 8), would have inherited
his father's wealth in 77BC.
Servilia marries then:
D.Iunius Silanus (cos. 62BC, dead in 60BC).
The result are three daughters:
Iunia Maior, Wife of M.Aemilius
Lepidus, the later Triumvir, in 49 friend of Caesar
, and makes him dictator, in 48/47BC he is governor in Spain.dies in 13/12BC).
There are by 43 several children, which get mentioned in Cicero's letter
to Brutus.
Iunia Secunda, wife of P. Servilius
Vatia Isauricus, cos. in 48BC and 41BC. originally a supporter
of Cato, from 50BC a supporter of Caesar. Their daughter Servilia
(which must be about 10 years old in 49BC) is in 42BC briefly engaged
to Octavian, she married in c.36BC the son of M.Aemilius Lepidus
Iunia Tertia, Cassius' wife.
After 60BC Servilia did not marry again, but became Caesar's mistress
and died at some point after 43BC.
Sources: Kleine Pauly, Oxford Classical Dictionary, Lexikon der alten Welt,
Some of Cicero's letters.
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