Quinctilius Varus
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Quinctilius Varus or Publius Quinctilius Varus the Younger was the only child to Roman General and Politician Publius Quinctilius Varus from his second marriage to Claudia Pulchra.
His second cousins were also Augustus’ great grand-children Aemilia Lepida I and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. Through his mother he was the first cousin to Roman Empress Valeria Messalina, her brother Marcus Valerius Messala Corvinus II, second cousin to Messalina’s children Claudia Octavia and Britannicus. As the latter two (both murdered later by Nero) were the children of the Emperor Claudius--there is some doubt of Claudius' paternity of both children due to Messalina's flagrant promiscuity, see Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars--and as Claudius was also a descendent of Mark Antony whose daughter, the Yougner Antonia, was his mother, this younger Varus thus united the bloodlines of both the Antony family and Octavii.
He was born in Rome between AD 1-6 and was raised there. In AD 7, his father was appointed Governor of Germania but committed suicide in September AD 9 due to his defeat at the the Battle of the Teutoburger Wald.
