id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8841 Tiberius Gemellus - Wikipedia .html text/html 2452 265 71 His paternal grandparents were emperor Tiberius and his wife, Vipsania Agrippina, with his maternal grandparents being general Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor.[2][3] He was the twin brother of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Germanicus II Gemellus and the younger brother of his sister Julia.[4] The birth of Gemellus and his twin were celebrated by Tiberius, who claimed that never before in the history of Rome had twins been born to a man as high in rank as Drusus, and the event was commemorated on the reverse of coins.[5] His twin died while still a child in 23.[4] Suetonius says Tiberius promoted the rise of Sejanus to secure the succession of Gemellus, his natural grandson, at the expense of Germanicus' sons Nero and Drusus.[12][16][17] 1. Tiberius Julius Caesar Nero Gemellus (1999) [1997], The praetorian guard in the political and social life of Julio-Claudian Rome (PDF), Ottawa: National Library of Canada, ISBN 0612271064, retrieved 2007-05-23[dead link] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8841.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8841.txt