Agrippina: Rome’s Uncrowned Ruler

I bet you didn’t know Rome was ruled by a mother. Her name was Agrippina the Younger.

Born in 15 CE, Agrippina wasn’t just Roman nobility. She was the great-granddaughter of Augustus.

The sister of Emperor Caligula. The wife of Emperor Claudius. And the mother of

Nero. Agrippina didn’t command armies. She controlled bloodlines. After surviving

exile and execution plots, she returned to Rome and married her own uncle,

Emperor Claudius. Rome was stunned. But Agrippina wasn’t finished. She convinced Claudius

to adopt her son Nero, pushing him ahead of the emperor’s own heir.

Then something unprecedented happened. Agrippina appeared on Roman coins. She received foreign