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<blockquote data-quote="leomoon" data-source="post: 1163106" data-attributes="member: 7954"><p>MARCUS - PLUS FAUSTINA JR = COMMUDUS THE STRANGE ONE? </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>note: At 2000 yrs old, I'd not trust the memory for the tob: (so don't use the houses:0</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://postimg.cc/xJN37WyX" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.postimg.cc/xJN37WyX/Emperor-Commodus.webp" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p>I always wondered if something went terribly wrong when Marcus Aurelius, married his cousin Faustina the "younger", his cousin?</p><p>Was she his 1s cousin? Elizabeth Queen of England currently married in the 1940s, her prince, Phillip who was a cousin from Germany and my grandmother from Quebec insisted that Anne was "slow" intellectually because of this intermarriage.</p><p>We were always taught in the older days, not to intermarry in your own family your own family in fear of mental illness or other types of genetic problems as seen in the Egyptian royal families that occurred too.</p><p></p><p></p><p>But with Marcus marrying Faustina, all went well until they beget Commodus, in 175A.D.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>from Wikipedia: </p><p></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustina_the_Younger" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustina_the_Younger</a></p><p></p><p><strong>Annia Galeria Faustina the Younger</strong> (born probably 21 September<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustina_the_Younger#cite_note-1" target="_blank">[1]</a> c. 130 AD,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustina_the_Younger#cite_note-2" target="_blank">[2]</a> — 175/176 AD)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustina_the_Younger#cite_note-FOOTNOTELevick2014172-3" target="_blank">[3]</a> was a daughter of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Emperor" target="_blank">Roman Emperor</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoninus_Pius" target="_blank">Antoninus Pius</a> and Roman Empress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustina_the_Elder" target="_blank">Faustina the Elder</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Even in it's day, this may have been quite the scandal:</p><p></p><p></p><p>EVERYONE wanted Faustina Jr.??</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Faustina, named after her mother, was her parents' fourth and youngest child and second daughter; she was also their only child to survive to adulthood. She was born and raised in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome" target="_blank">Rome</a>. </p><p><u><em><strong>Her second cousin three times removed,</strong></em></u> emperor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian" target="_blank">Hadrian</a>, had arranged with her father for Faustina to marry <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Verus" target="_blank">Lucius Verus</a>. On 25 February 138, she and Verus were betrothed. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Aelius" target="_blank">Verus' father</a> was Hadrian's first adopted son and his intended heir; however, when Verus' father died, Hadrian chose Faustina's father to be his second adopted son, and eventually, he became Hadrian's successor. Faustina's father ended the engagement between his daughter and Verus<u><em><strong> and arranged for Faustina's betrothal to her maternal cousin, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius" target="_blank">Marcus Aurelius</a>; Aurelius was also adopted by her father. </strong></em></u></p><p><u><em><strong></strong></em></u></p><p></p><p><u><em><strong>(as confusing to me, as today's family trees connetions are!! _<img src="https://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/styles/smilies/wink.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":wink:" title="Wink :wink:" data-shortname=":wink:" /></strong></em></u></p><p><u><em><strong></strong></em></u></p><p></p><p><u><em><strong>THEIR SON:</strong></em></u></p><p><u><em><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus</a></strong></em></u></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="leomoon, post: 1163106, member: 7954"] MARCUS - PLUS FAUSTINA JR = COMMUDUS THE STRANGE ONE? note: At 2000 yrs old, I'd not trust the memory for the tob: (so don't use the houses:0 [url=https://postimg.cc/xJN37WyX][img]https://i.postimg.cc/xJN37WyX/Emperor-Commodus.webp[/img][/url] I always wondered if something went terribly wrong when Marcus Aurelius, married his cousin Faustina the "younger", his cousin? Was she his 1s cousin? Elizabeth Queen of England currently married in the 1940s, her prince, Phillip who was a cousin from Germany and my grandmother from Quebec insisted that Anne was "slow" intellectually because of this intermarriage. We were always taught in the older days, not to intermarry in your own family your own family in fear of mental illness or other types of genetic problems as seen in the Egyptian royal families that occurred too. But with Marcus marrying Faustina, all went well until they beget Commodus, in 175A.D. from Wikipedia: [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustina_the_Younger[/URL] [B]Annia Galeria Faustina the Younger[/B] (born probably 21 September[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustina_the_Younger#cite_note-1"][1][/URL] c. 130 AD,[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustina_the_Younger#cite_note-2"][2][/URL] — 175/176 AD)[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustina_the_Younger#cite_note-FOOTNOTELevick2014172-3"][3][/URL] was a daughter of [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Emperor"]Roman Emperor[/URL] [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoninus_Pius"]Antoninus Pius[/URL] and Roman Empress [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustina_the_Elder"]Faustina the Elder[/URL]. Even in it's day, this may have been quite the scandal: EVERYONE wanted Faustina Jr.?? Faustina, named after her mother, was her parents' fourth and youngest child and second daughter; she was also their only child to survive to adulthood. She was born and raised in [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome"]Rome[/URL]. [U][I][B]Her second cousin three times removed,[/B][/I][/U] emperor [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian"]Hadrian[/URL], had arranged with her father for Faustina to marry [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Verus"]Lucius Verus[/URL]. On 25 February 138, she and Verus were betrothed. [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Aelius"]Verus' father[/URL] was Hadrian's first adopted son and his intended heir; however, when Verus' father died, Hadrian chose Faustina's father to be his second adopted son, and eventually, he became Hadrian's successor. Faustina's father ended the engagement between his daughter and Verus[U][I][B] and arranged for Faustina's betrothal to her maternal cousin, [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius"]Marcus Aurelius[/URL]; Aurelius was also adopted by her father. [/B][/I][/U] [U][I][B](as confusing to me, as today's family trees connetions are!! _:wink: [/B][/I][/U] [U][I][B]THEIR SON:[/B][/I][/U] [U][I][B][URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus[/URL][/B][/I][/U] [/QUOTE]
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