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Was it his wife, Agrippina, who poisoned him?

Claudius A.D.41-54

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He launched one of the boldest military campaigns of the 1st century, the conquest of Britain. In A.D. 43, he dispatched a force of 40,000 troops and several war elephants across the English Channel. The Romans had soon conquered the British stronghold at modern day Colchester, and captured Caratacus. Claudius visited Britain during the invasion before returning to a hero’s welcome in Rome. Privileged with a triumphal arch, the Emperor “brought barbarian peoples beyond the English Channel for the first time under Rome’s control.”

At age 63 Rome’s fourth emperor died, was it his wife who poisoned him? Agrippina. Claudius had become Emperor following the assassination of Caligula

Although inexperienced when he became emperor at almost 46 years old he was well read and wrote the history of Carthage, Etruscans, Roman Republic.

In A.D. 41, a cabal of Praetorian Guards, the sworn protectors of the Roman emperor had saluted him as Rome’s new emperor. Claudius’ physical disabilities may have given the impression that he could be easily manipulated, but once in power, he showed himself to be more astute than previously believed. He bought the loyalty of the Praetorian Guard with a massive 15,000-sestertius per man donation.

Claudius enjoyed chariot races and gladiatorial bouts and enjoyed the bloodshed. Claudius would marry four times. Agrippina named her son Nero as his successor before engineering Claudius’ assassination.

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