In Ancient Rome, several men of the Julii Caesares family were named Lucius Julius Caesar. Distinct by their praenomen, "Lucius", none of these members of the Julii Caesares family can be confused with their distant relative and much more famous Gaius Julius Caesar, the Roman who conquered Gaul, became dictator for life, and then was murdered by Roman senators.
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Son of Numerius Julius Caesar and father to Sextus Julius Caesar I. Lucius was a great-grandson to Lucius Julius Libo.
Son of Sextus Julius Caesar II. Married Poppilia. They had 2 sons Lucius Julius Caesar III and Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus and one daughter Julia Caesaris, who became the first wife of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
Lucius Julius Caesar III (c. 135 BC – 87 BC) was a son of Lucius Julius Caesar II, and elder brother to Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus.
Lucius, consul in 90 BC, proposed Roman Citizenship laws to allies who didn’t participate in the Social War against Rome in 90 BC. This proposal became known as the Julian Law. During his consulship Lucius Caesar commanded one of the armies Rome employed against the Italians with mixed success as he was beaten a few times but was able to repulse an attack on his camp. He was elected censor in 89 BC
Lucius and his brother were killed together in 87 BC at the beginning of the Civil War by partisans of Gaius Marius.
His children were Lucius Julius Caesar IV and Julia Antonia.
Son of Lucius Julius Caesar III. Died after 43 BC. Consul of 64 BC. During the debate in the senate with regards to the punishment of the Catalinarian conspirators, he voted for the death penalty although his own brother-in-law Publius Cornelius Lentulus (Sura) was amongst them. He was a legate in Gaul in 52 BC and a high priest. After the conquest of Gaul he moved against Pompey. He accompanied Julius Caesar into civil war. After Caesar's assassination he allied with his nephew Mark Antony. He and his nephew fell out in 43 BC, and he was proscribed by Mark Anthony but the pleas of his sister saved himself from the death penalty.
Son of the Lucius Julius Caesar IV. Unlike his father on the outbreak of the civil war he chose to ally himself with the Pompeians against Caesar. In the early stages he was employed by both sides as a messenger bringing offers of negotiation which came to nothing. In 49 BC he fled to Africa where he served as proquaestor to Cato in 46 BC. After the Battle of Thapsus, he surrendered to Caesar, being killed not long after. It's not clear whether he was killed on the orders of Caesar or whether he fell a victim to the fury of the dictator's soldiers.
Lucius Caesar (17 BC-2), was born Lucius Vipsanius Agrippa, as a son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder. Later he was adopted by his maternal grandfather Augustus: from that moment his full name was Lucius Julius Caesar.