![]() Therefore, Servilia supported Claudia's interests against those of Porcia. The divorce was not well received by some, including Brutus's mother, Servilia, who despised her half-brother, and appears to have been jealous of Brutus's affection for Porcia. She was also related to Pompey by marriage through her younger sister. Claudia was very popular for being a woman of great virtue, and was the daughter of Appius Claudius Pulcher, who had been Brutus's ally for many years. The marriage was scandalous as Brutus did not state any reasons for divorce despite having been married to Claudia for many years. Marriage to Brutus īrutus, Porcia's first cousin, divorced his wife Claudia and married Porcia in 45 BC when she was still very young. In 46 BC, Cato committed suicide following his defeat in the battle of Thapsus while Marcus Cato, Porcia's brother, was pardoned by Caesar and returned to Rome. Bibulus died in 48 BC from influenza following Pompey's defeat, leaving Porcia a widow. ![]() He captured a part of Caesar's fleet, although this was generally insignificant as Caesar went on to decisively defeat Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus. Bibulus commanded Pompey's navy in the Adriatic Sea. Though both Boni hated Pompey, he did not pose the threat to their faction that Caesar did. Both Cato and Bibulus allied with Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus against Caesar. In 49 BC, Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his army, thus declaring war, beginning the Great Roman Civil War. Cato personally detested Caesar, and was his greatest enemy in the Senate Cato's political faction, the Optimates (also known as the Boni), believed that Caesar should return to Rome, in order for the Optimates to strip him of his property and dignitas, and permanently exile Caesar. In 52 BC, Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars came to an end, but he refused to return to Rome, despite the Senate's demands that he lay down his arms. Instead, Cato divorced his wife, Porcia's stepmother Marcia, and gave her to Hortensius he remarried her after Hortensius died. Cato disliked the idea of marrying his daughter to a man who was four times her age, and was refused to break an arranged contract he held with Biblius. Nonetheless, Bibulus refused to divorce her. He argued that it was against natural law to keep a girl of Porcia's youth and beauty from producing children for his allies and impractical for her to overproduce for Bibulus. Such an arrangement was not uncommon at the time. Hortensius offered to marry her and then return her to Bibulus once she had given birth to a male heir. Bibulus, who was infatuated with his wife, was unwilling to let her go. Ī few years later, Quintus Hortensius applied to Cato, asking for Porcia's hand in marriage. It is possible that a son of Porcia and Bibulus was the man who wrote the biography of Brutus. ![]() Lucius Calpurnius Bibulus (born around 59 BC) was possibly one of them, although most modern historians believe Porcia was too young to have mothered Lucius, and that he was Bibulus' son by his previous marriage, as he was old enough to fight in the Battle of Philippi in 42 BC. With Bibulus she had two children, at least one of them a son. Porcia embraced these ideals, and did not outwardly object to the arranged marriage. Porcia's father was a member of the Roman Optimate faction, and adamantly opposed Julius Caesar. When she was still very young, her father divorced her mother for adultery.Īt a young age she was married first to Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, her father's political ally, between 58 BC and 53 BC. She had an affectionate nature, was interested in philosophy, and was "full of an understanding courage." Plutarch describes her as being prime of youth and beauty. Biography Early life Porcia from Guillaume Rouillé's Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum She is best known for being the second wife of Marcus Junius Brutus, the most famous of Julius Caesar's assassins, and appears primarily in the letters of Cicero. She was the daughter of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (Cato the Younger) and his first wife Atilia. 73 BC – June 43 BC), occasionally spelled Portia, especially in 18th-century English literature, was a Roman woman who lived in the 1st century BC.
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