Background
She was the eldest daughter and first-born child of Julia the Younger (the first granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus) and consul Lucius Aemilius Paullus. Her father was of a distinguished and ancient patrician family.
She was the eldest daughter and first-born child of Julia the Younger (the first granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus) and consul Lucius Aemilius Paullus. Her father was of a distinguished and ancient patrician family.
Aemilia Lepida (5 British Columbia – c 43 AD) was a noble Roman woman and matron. She was the first great-grandchild of Emperor Augustus, noblewoman Scribonia and a great-grandchild of consul Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus (brother of the triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus). Aemilia Lepida was the cousin of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (6-39) who was married to Caligula"s favorite sister Drusilla and who was executed in Caligula"s reign.
In 8, her mother Julia the Younger (otherwise called Vipsania Julia) was exiled for adultery, like her mother Julia.
Her father Lucius was executed in 14 for participating in a conspiracy against Augustus. Their children were:
Junia Calvina (fl AD 79), married Lucius Vitellius, a brother of the future emperor Vitellius.
Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus (d AD 64), consul in 53, forced by Nero to commit suicide after being accused of boasting of his descent from Augustus. Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus (d AD 49), praetor in 48, he was engaged to Octavia, daughter of Claudius.
He committed suicide on the day that Claudius and Agrippina were married.
The time of her death is not known. She is sometimes said to have been poisoned on the orders of Agrippina the Younger during the reign of Nero, but this Lepida was evidently Domitia Lepida, the mother of Valeria Messalina and the second wife of Appius Junius Silanus.
By AD 13, Lepida had married Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus, a member of the patrician branch of the ancient gens Junia.