The Patricians*: Imperator Gaius Julius Divi Filius Caesar Octavianus Augustus (63 BC - 43 AD), Founder and 1st Emperor of the Roman Empire - 59th Great Grandfather

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Virgil once declared that "a new race of human beings is descending from the heights of the heavens" about Augustus' advent as the first Emperor of the Roman Empire. He truly believed that Augustus was the heaven-sent savior of the Roman Empire after the assassination of Julius Caesar (see http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_...) and the attendant political turmoil thereafter.

Augustus, both in name and in deed, set the bar for all emperors of the Occident that followed him. As such, anyone deemed worthy of association of his name surely had a heavy load of responsibility to match or rise above his accomplishments.

During his rule, which is formally known as Pax Romana, the period of relatively lax imperial expansion, he instituted the first organized civil police force and fire fighting companies in human history. By all measures, these accomplishments and his others place Augustus as the first civic planner and organizer. On his deathbed, he even boasted, "I found a Rome of bricks; I leave to you one of marble".

He is the namesake of August.


Gaius Julius Octavianus Augustus
Birth 63 BC in Rome, Roman Empire
Death 14 AD in Nola, Italia, Roman Empire

59th great grandfather ROCHECHOUART-CYR
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63rd great grand uncle VERE-SIMMONS-COLLINS
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63rd great grand uncle DEMAREST
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8th cousin 65x removed LE ROY - ROYAL BLOODLINE
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1st great grand uncle of wife of 60th great grand uncle HOWARD-WOOD
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74th great grandfather CYR-ROHAN
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4th great grand uncle of wife of 11th cousin 53x removed CYR-ROHAN
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great grandson of husband of 6th cousin 67x removed LE ROY - ROYAL BLOODLINE
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FAB PEDIGREE
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SOURCES

Augustus Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus


Meditations

Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor

Virgil: Quoted in Jaroslav Pelikan, Jesus Through the Centuries. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1985, p. 20

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