In 49 AD, Agrippina married her uncle, the emperor Claudius, and began to promote her own son's claim to the succession, at the expense of Claudius's own son, Britannicus. Through his mother Agrippina he was the only surviving direct male descendant of the emperor Augustus. Nero was born near Rome on 15 December 37 AD and was known as a child as Domitius. He is remembered as an ineffectual, neglectful and brutal leader. © Nero was the fifth Roman emperor and the last of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
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