Emperor Marcus Antonius Triumvar Of ROME

14 Jan 82 B.C. - 1 Aug 0029 B.C.

• Name	Marcus Antonius Triumvar Of ROME
  Prefix	Emperor
  Born	14 Jan 82 B.C.	Roma, Roman Republic   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Affiliation	[1]
  	Political party: Populares
  Cause of Death	[1]
  	Suicide
  FamilySearch ID	LVDH-133
  MilitaryService	0029 B.C.  [1]
  	committed suicide after defeat at the Battle of Alexandria - again by Octavius
  MilitaryService	0030 B.C.  [1]
  	defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium
  MilitaryService	46 B.C.  [1]
  	Magister equitum of the Roman Republic under Julius Caesar
  MilitaryService	Between 53 and 0029  [1]
  	Proconsul in the Roman Army
  Occupation	43 B.C.  [1]
  	Consul of the Roman Republic, with Julius Caesar
  _UID	FCC2916EEB664900A3A3CF408B0096461327
  Died	1 Aug 0029 B.C.	Alexandria, Egypt   [1]
  Person ID	I9180	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	20 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Marcus Antonius Praetor CRECITUS,   b. Abt 100 B.C., Italy ,   d. Abt 68 B.C., Crete
  Mother	Julia Caesonia Of ROME,   b. 103 B.C., Abt. 130 B.C. ,   d. 49 B.C.
  Married	Abt 80 B.C.	Rome, Italy
  Family ID	F4634	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt,   b. Jan 68 B.C., Alexandria, Ptolemaic Kingdom ,   d. 10 Aug 0029 B.C., Alexandria, Egypt
  Children	1. Ptolemy Philadelphus Antonius SON OF ANTONY, by Cleopatra,   b. 35 B.C., Antioch, Turkey ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Alexander Helios, Prince of Ptolemaic Egypt,   b. 25 Dec 39 B.C., Alexandria, Egypt ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Cleopatra Selene II,, Queen Consort of Numidia and Mauretania,   b. 25 Dec 39 B.C., Alexandria, Egypt ,   d. 0004 B.C., Caesarea, Mauretania, Roman colony, Roman-Berber, North Africa
  Last Modified	20 Dec 2022
  Family ID	F4624	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Octavia MAJOR,   b. 69 B.C.,   d. 0011 B.C.
  Married	40 B.C.	Brundisium, His 3Rd Marriage, Her 2ND
  Children	1. Antonia Major "THE ELDER",   b. Abt 33 B.C., BC, Roma, Roma, Lazio, Italy ,   d. Oct 37, Roma, Roma, Lazio, Italy   2. Antonia MINOR,   b. 31 Jan 35 B.C., Athens, Attica, Greece ,   d. 1 May 37, Rome, Italy, Roman Empire
  Last Modified	20 Dec 2022
  Family ID	F4625	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Antony, Mark (Latin Marcus Antonius) (83?-30 BC), Roman statesman and general, who defeated the assassins of Julius Caesar and, with Gaius Octavius and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, formed the Second Triumvirate, which ultimately secured the end of the Roman Republic. Antony was born in Rome and educated for a short time in Greece. From 58 to 56 BC he served as a leader of cavalry in Roman campaigns in Palestine and Egypt, and from 54 to 50 BC he served in Gaul under Julius Caesar. Subsequently, with Caesar's aid, he attained the offices of quaestor, augur, and tribune of the people. At the outbreak of the civil war between Caesar and the Roman soldier and statesman Pompey the Great, Antony was appointed Caesar's commander in chief in Italy. He commanded the left wing of Caesar's army at the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC, and in 44 BC he shared the consulship with Caesar. After the assassination of Caesar in 44 BC, Antony's skillful oratory, immortalized by Shakespeare in the play Julius Caesar, turned the Roman people against the conspirators, leaving Antony for a time with almost absolute power in Rome. A rival soon appeared, however, in the person of Gaius Octavius, later the Roman emperor Augustus, who was grandnephew of Caesar and Caesar's designated heir. A struggle for power broke out when Antony, Octavius, and a third contender for the throne, the Roman general Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, formed the Second Triumvirate and agreed to divide the Roman Empire among themselves. In 42 BC, at Philippi, the triumvirate crushed the forces led by two assassins of Caesar, the Roman statesmen Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, who sought to restore the Roman Republic. Later in the same year, Antony summoned the Egyptian queen Cleopatra to attend him in the city of Tarsus, in Cilicia (now in Turkey), and explain her refusal to aid the triumvirate in the civil war. Instead of punishing Cleopatra, however, Antony fell in love with her and returned with her to Egypt in 41 BC. In 40 BC he attended meetings of the triumvirate in Italy, at which a new division of the Roman world was arranged, with Antony receiving the eastern portion, from the Adriatic Sea to the Euphrates River; in the same year he attempted to cement his relations with Octavius by marrying the latter's sister Octavia. Nevertheless, Antony soon returned to Egypt and resumed his life with Cleopatra. Octavius made use of this fact to excite the indignation of the Roman people against Antony. When, in 36 BC, Antony was defeated in a military expedition against the Parthians, popular disapproval of his conduct deepened in Rome, and a new civil war became inevitable. In 31 BC the forces of Antony and Cleopatra were decisively defeated by those of Octavius in a naval engagement near Actium. The couple returned to Egypt, deserted by the Egyptian fleet and by most of Antony's own army. In the following year, besieged by the troops of Octavius in Alexandria and deceived by a false report of Cleopatra's suicide, Antony killed himself by falling on his sword.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 20 Dec 2022), entry for Marcus Antonius Triumvar Of ROME, person ID LVDH-133. (Reliability: 3).