Julii Caesares

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Julii Caesares is a subdivision of the patrician Julii family in the Roman Republic, and the beginnings of the Julian side of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty. All its members had the nomen Julius and the cognomen Caesar and can only be told apart by numbers and differing praenomina.

Male members

Descendance (includes adoptions from Julius Caesar's posthumous adoption of his grandnephew Octavian):

Vertical descendancy tree

Lucius Julius Libo I

Lucius Julius Libo II

Numerius Julius Caesar

Lucius Julius Caesar I

Sextus Julius Caesar I

Sextus Julius Caesar II Postumus

Gaius Julius Caesar I

Lucius Julius Caesar II

Gaius Julius Caesar II

Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus

Lucius Julius Caesar III

Sextus Julius Caesar III

Gaius Julius Caesar III

Lucius Julius Caesar IV

Sextus Julius Caesar IV

Gaius Julius Caesar IV

Lucius Julius Caesar V

Horizontal descendancy tree

`Lucius Julius Libo (consul 267 BC)
  `—Lucius Julius Libo II
      `--Numerius Julius Caesar (b. bef. 300 BC)
          `--Lucius Julius Caesar I
              `--Sextus Julius Caesar I (fl. 200 BC, military tribune, governor of Liguria)
                  |--Sextus Julius Caesar II Postumus (consul 156 BC)
                  |   `--Lucius Julius Caesar II
                  |       |--Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus (c.130 BC - 87 BC, quaestor, aedile, killed by partisans of Marius)
                  |       `--Lucius Julius Caesar III (d. 87 BC, praetor 94 BC, consul 90 BC, killed by partisans of Marius)
                  |           `--Lucius Julius Caesar IV (d. aft. 43 BC, consul 63 BC)
                  |               `--Lucius Julius Caesar V (proquaestor 46 BC, killed soon aft. Battle of Thapsus)
                  `--Gaius Julius Caesar I
                      `--Gaius Julius Caesar II (also had a daughter: Julia Caesaris, wife of Gaius Marius)
                          |--Sextus Julius Caesar III (d. 90 BC or 89 BC, consul 91 BC, military commander, supporter of Marius)
                          |   `--Sextus Julius Caesar IV (quaestor in 48 BC, military commander in Syria, friend of Julius Caesar)
                          `--Gaius Julius Caesar III (c. 135 BC – 85 BC, quaestor, praetor, supporter of Marius)
                              `--Gaius Julius Caesar IV (100 BC – 44 BC, consul, dictator, etc.)
                                  |(by adoption)
                                  `--Augustus (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, 63 BC – AD 14, emperor)
                                      |(by adoption)
                                      |--Gaius Julius Caesar (20 BC – AD 4)
                                      |--Lucius Julius Caesar (17 BC – AD 2)
                                      `--Tiberius (Tiberius Caesar Augustus, 42 BC – AD 37, Emperor from AD 14)
                                          |--Drusus the Younger (Julius Caesar Drusus, 13 BC – AD 23, military commander, etc.)
                                          |(by adoption)
                                          `--Germanicus (Germanicus Julius Caesar, 15 BC – AD 19, military commander, etc.)
                                              `--Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, AD 12 – AD 41, Emperor from AD 37)

Sorted by praenomen

Gaius

Gaius Julius Caesar I
Gaius Julius Caesar II
Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus
Gaius Julius Caesar III
Julius Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar IV) the dictator, most famous member
Augustus

Lucius

See: Lucius Julius Caesar

Sextus

See: Sextus Julius Caesar

Female members

Main article: Julia Caesaris

Feminine names were their father's gens and cognomen declined in the female form, and so all female members are Julia Caesaris