# Junia Tertia

Junia Tertia, also called Tertulla, (c. 75 BC – 22 AD) was the third daughter of Servilia and her second husband Decimus Junius Silanus, and later the wife of Gaius Cassius Longinus.

## Biography
### Early life

Through her mother, she was the younger half-sister of Marcus Junius Brutus, she also had two older sisters Junia Prima and Junia Secunda as well as an older brother named Marcus Junius Silanus.

### Marriage and later life

Tertia married Gaius Cassius Longinus, they had one son, who was born in about 60-59 BC. She had a miscarriage in 44 BC. In 47 BC, it was rumored that she was Julius Caesar's lover through her mother's arrangement.
Like her mother, Tertia was allowed to outlive her husband Cassius, unmolested by the triumvirs and Augustus. She survived to an advanced age, dying in 22 AD, 64 years after the battle at Philippi, during the reign of the emperor Tiberius. She had amassed a great estate in her long widowhood, and left her fortune to many prominent Romans, although excluded the emperor, which was met with criticism. Tiberius forgave the omission and still allowed a large funeral to be held in her honor, though the masks of Brutus and Cassius were to not be displayed in the procession.
Through her son she may have ended up as an ancestress to the empress Domitia Longina.

## Family tree

vteBrutus family tree :
Salonia (2)Cato the ElderLicinia (1)
Marcus Porcius Cato SalonianusMarcus Porcius Cato LicinianusMarcus Livius Drusus
Marcus Porcius Cato (2)LiviaQuintus Servilius Caepio (1)Marcus Livius Drusus
Atilia (1)Cato the YoungerMarcus Livius Drusus Claudianus, adopted son
Marcus Junius Brutus (1)Servilia, mistress of Julius Caesar (see AUGUSTUS below)Decimus Junius Silanus (2)ServiliaGnaeus Servilius CaepioLucius Appuleius SATURNINUS
Marcus Porcius CatoPorciaMarcus Junius Brutus†Junia PrimaJunia TertiaGaius Cassius Longinus xMarcus Aemilius Lepidus (consul 78 BC)Appuleia, daughter of SATURNINUS
Junia SecundaMarcus Aemilius Lepidus (triumvir)Lucius Aemilius Paullus (consul 50 BC)
Descendant of POMPEY MAGNUS and Lucius Cornelius SULLAson (perhaps Quintus Aemilius Lepdius?)Marcus Aemilius Lepidus Minor (the Younger)Servilia Isaurica, daughter of Junia Prima (see above) and Publius Servilius IsauricusEmperor AUGUSTUS (possibly, see JULIO-CLAUDIANS for descendants)Paullus Aemilius LepidusCornelia, daughter of Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus and Scribonia, wife of AUGUSTUS and mother of Julia the Elder
Manius Aemilius LepidusAemilia Lepida II (also engaged to Lucius Caesar, see JULIO-CLAUDIANS and AUGUSTUS)Publius Sulpicius Quirinius (of the Sulpicia gens, related to GALBA below)Lucius Aemilius Paullus (consul 1)Julia the Younger, daughter of Julia the Elder and Marcus Vispanius Agrippa, see AUGUSTUS and Cornelia aboveMarcus Aemilius Lepidus (consul 6 AD)daughter (perhaps known as Aemilia Lepida?)Aemilia LepidaServius Sulpicius GALBAMamercus Aemilius Scaurus (of the Aemilia gens, related to the Lepidae)Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus (of the Junia gens, related to BRUTUS, see above)Aemilia LepidaCLAUDIUS (see AUGUSTUS above and JULIO-CLAUDIANS)Lucius Vitellius (consul 34)Livilla, daughter of Drusus the Elder and sister of Germanicus and CLAUDIUS, aunt of Drusus Caesar (see JULIO-CLAUDIANS and to the right)Lucius Aelius Sejanus, the almost emperorAemilia LepidaDrusus Caesar, son of Agrippina the Elder, daughter of Julia the Elder (see AUGUSTUS and Julia the Younger above and see JULIO-CLAUDIANS)Gaius Cassius Longinus (descended from or related to GAIUS CASSIUS LONGINUS, see above)Junia LepidaJunia CalvinaLucius Vitellius (consul 48)Aulus VITELLIUS (for Otho's relation, in terms of the Year of the Four Emperors, he married Poppaea Sabina, who married NERO, see AUGUSTUS and CLAUDIUS above)Cassia LonginaGnaeus Domitius Corbulo, brother of Milona, wife of CALIGULA, see JULIO-CLAUDIANS and see aboveLucius Aelius Lamia Plautius AelianusDomitia LonginaDomitian, see FLAVIANS and VESPASIANPlautia (possibly existed, although unsure, but if so, then her brother is Lucius Fundanius Lamia Aelianus, father of Lucius Plautius Lamia Silvanus, alleged ancestor of Fabia Orestilla, wife of Gordian I, see GORDIANS)Lucius Ceionius CommodusLucius Aelius CaesarMarcus Aurelius (see NERVA-ANTONINES)Lucius Verus (for further relations, see NERVA-ANTONINES)Lucilla :
* (1): 1st spouse
* (2): 2nd spouse
* †: assassin of Caesar
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