Plautia Urgulanilla (lived first century) was the first wife of the future emperorClaudius. They married around AD 15, but he divorced her nine years later on grounds of adultery and suspicion of murder.
She gave birth to a son, Claudius Drusus, and a daughter, Claudia, who was later repudiated by Claudius.
Her father was Marcus Plautius Silvanus, a general who was consul for the year 2 BC. Urgulanilla was named for his mother, Urgulania, a close friend of Livia.
Urgulanilla was named for her grandmother, Urgulania, a close friend of Livia.
She gave birth to a son, Claudius Drusus, and a daughter, Claudia, who was born five months after the divorce.
As Claudia was widely known to be the illegimate daughter of the freedman Boter, Claudius repudiated the child and had her laid at Urgulanilla's doorstep.
His first two marriages, to PlautiaUrgulanilla and Aelia Paetina, ended in divorce.
Urgulanilla gave birth to two children: a son, Claudius Drusus, and a daughter, Claudia.
According to Suetonius, Claudius Drusus had just been betrothed to Junilla, the daughter of Sejanus, when he choked to death on a pear he had thrown into the air and caught in his mouth.
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