Pompey - Marriages and Offspring

Marriages and Offspring

  • First wife, Antistia
  • Second wife, Aemilia Scaura (Sulla's stepdaughter)
  • Third wife, Mucia Tertia (whom he divorced for adultery, according to Cicero's letters)
    • Gnaeus Pompeius, executed in 45 BC, after the Battle of Munda
    • Pompeia Magna, married to Faustus Cornelius Sulla; ancestor of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Claudia Antonia's first husband)
    • Sextus Pompey, who would rebel in Sicily against Augustus
  • Fourth wife Julia (daughter of Caesar)
  • Fifth wife, Cornelia Metella (daughter of Metellus Scipio)

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