Messalīna, Valeria (d. AD 48), great-granddaughter of Octavia (sister of the emperor Augustus). She married at the age of 14 in AD 39 or 40 her second cousin the emperor Claudius, then aged 48, as his third wife, and bore him two children, Octavia (later the wife of the emperor Nero) and Britannicus. She was notorious for her promiscuity (pilloried by Juvenal in Satires 6 and 10) to which Claudius alone was blind. In AD 48, though still apparently married to Claudius, she went through the formalities of a marriage with the consul designate C. Silius. While Claudius was still irresolute his freedman Narcissus had the pair killed.
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Messalina (Valeria Messalina) (mĕsəlī'nə), d. A.D. 48, Roman empress, wife of Claudius I. She was the mother of his children, Britannicus and Octavia. Her reputation for greed and lust was supposedly unknown to her husband until, in Claudius' absence, she publicly married her lover Caius Silius. A political plot was apparently involved, and Claudius' secretary Narcissus informed the emperor. Messalina was killed.
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Roman empress as the third wife of Claudius I. She was executed after Claudius discovered that she had married a lover in his absence.
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