This could have been an act by Nero to warn others not toĬhallenge his power, but also to his mother specifically, not to interfere in his affairs.Īt some point, Nero decided that his mother was too much of a threat and planned to remove her permanently. However,īritannicus died unexpectedly while attending a dinner with Nero, and it was widely rumoured that the emperor himself had poisoned him. When Agrippina realised that she could no longer had access to power through Nero, she focused her support for Britannicus, the pervious emperor's son. He had her banned from the imperial palace and from attending public events with him. Nero resented her influence and began distancing himself from her. To manipulate him and rule the empire by using her son as a puppet ruler.
Once he had become emperor, she began trying Regardless of the cause of Claudius' death, Nero became emperor at the age of 16.Īlmost immediately upon taking the throne, Nero's relationship with his mother, Agrippina, was fraught with conflict. Own son, Britannicus, was becoming a popular figure. It may have been that she had been concerned that Claudius could have changed his mind on the adoption, as Claudius' This has led many toīelieve, even ancient Roman historians, that Agrippina had poisoned him. In what many modern historians point out as a suspiciously sudden event, Claudius died unexpectedly, soon after the adoption was made public. Finally, after consistent nagging, Claudius relented and made the adoption official in AD 54. When he turned 16, Nero was married to Claudius' daughter, Claudia Octavia, strengthening his connection with the imperial dynasty.ĭuring these years, Nero's mother, Agrippina, is claimed to have constantly harassed Claudius to formally adopt Nero as his imperial heir and to declare him as
However, by the year AD 51, at 14 years old, he began Nero was only 11 or 12 years old at the time.
In AD 49, his mother, Agrippina, married Emperor Claudius.
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