Gaius Caesar
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Gaius Julius Caesar Vipsanianus (20 BC - AD 4), most commonly known as Gaius Caesar, was the oldest son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder.<ref>Wood, Susan. (1999) Imperial Women: A Study in Public Images, 40 B.C. - A.D. 68 "Brill Academic Publishers". p. 321. ISBN 90-04-11969-8.</ref>
Gaius was adopted along with his brother Lucius when Agrippa died in 12 BC by their maternal grandfather, the Roman Emperor Augustus, who named the two boys his heirs. Both were made consuls-designate and were feted as the "Princes of Youth" (principes iuventutis), with temples and statues erected in their honour (as in the case of the Maison Carrée in Nimes). In 1 BC he was made army commander and with the king Ariobarzanes, whom he gave power over the Armenians and offered an island to the Euphrates. in 1 CE, he was made Consul with L. Aemilius Paullus as his collegue and M. Herennius Picens as suffuct since Gius was out of town and couldn't serve.
Lucius died in AD 2 and Gaius died two years later in Lycia at the age of 24, after being wounded during a campaign in Artagira, Armenia.<ref>Mommsen, Theodore. (1996) A History of Rome Under the Emperors "Routledge (UK)". p. 107. ISBN 0-415-10113-1.</ref>
In 1 BC, he married his relative, Livilla, daughter of Drusus the Elder and Antonia. This union had no issue.<ref>Hazel, John. (2002) Who's Who in the Roman World "Routledge (UK)". p. 48. ISBN 0-415-29162-3.</ref>
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| Preceded by: Cossus Cornelius Lentulus and Lucius Calpurnius Piso | Consul of the Roman Empire together with Lucius Aemilius Paullus 1 | Succeeded by: Publius Vinicius and Publius Alfenus Varus |
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