Claudia Sempronia Minor

Claudia Sempronia Minor (740 BE - 832 BE) was an early-mid century Yutemond noblewoman and niece of Yutemond's first queen, Ulpia. She was the second surviving daughter of the empress and queen's cousin Sempronia Livilla and her first husband Aulus Claudius Anna. Sempronia had two sons by her first and second husband. She became the mother of the emperor Galerius, who was fathered by Aemilius.
Claudia was popularily called Madame Claudilla by historical records, family and friends to make the distinction between her and her older sister.
== History ==
=== Origins ===
Her full siblings were older sister Claudia Sempronia Major and Claudius Aulus. From her mother's second marriage to Lucius Antonius she would also gain two half sisters, Antonia the Elder and Antonia the Younger. She was a granddaughter of Anastasia Korlat.
==== First marriage ====
She married Aemilius Valerius Castiligilone (a relative of Constintina), he was speculated to have been murdered by the Senate prior to declaring support for Octavia I; there were traces of arsenic poisoning but no leads, Claudia divorced him with no recorded reason. With him she had one son, Galerius who would go on to marry Ulpia the Younger and become the first Imperial consort of two queens.
==== Second marriage ====
She married Josephus Claudius, one of her cousins on her paternal side and bore a son named Josephius the Younger; who later adopted the cognomen "Aemilianius" as per Claudia's advice he was granted Aemilian properties and therefore agreed to legal adoption to settle property disputes with the Aemilian family.
== Later Life as mother of the emperor ==
In 830 BE, after the governess of the royal children, the Countess of Iron Ville, went bankrupt and resigned, Galerius appointed his favourite, the Duchess of Nox City, to the position. This decision met with disapproval from the court as the duchess was considered to be of too modest origins to occupy such an exalted position. In contrast, both the king and the queen trusted Yolande completely, gave her a thirteen-room apartment in Korlat Palace and paid her well. The entire Constantine family benefited greatly from royal favour in titles and positions, but its sudden wealth and lavish lifestyle outraged most aristocratic families, who resented the Constantine dominance at court, and also fueled the increasing popular disapproval of Galerius, mostly in Empress' Eternity. The Count of Olcan wrote to Claudia before she died: "It is almost unexampled that in so short a time, the royal favour should have brought such overwhelming advantages to this family of humble origins".
Around this time, pamphlets describing farcical sexual deviance including the king and his female friends in the court were growing in popularity around the country. As time went on, these came to focus more on the king. They described amorous encounters with a wide range of figures, from the Duchess of Nox City to Ulpia the Younger. As these attacks increased, they were connected with the public's dislike of his association with the rivalling political Claudian family. It was publicly suggested that his supposed behaviour was learned at the court of the rival the families of the Senate. Claudia again expressed concern for the safety of her son, and she began to use Claudian's ambassador to Korlat, Count of Olcan, to provide information on Galerius' safety and movements.
== Death ==
Claudia Sempronia Minor died in 832 BE. Galerius feared that the death of his mother would jeopardise the Korlat-Claudian alliance (as well as, ultimately, himself), but his half-brother, Josephus Claudius Aemilianus, Vicilius Civilis, wrote to him that he had no intention of breaking the alliance between the Imperial family over the "insane sentiment" against Ulpia's predecessor, Octavia I.
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