9. Agrippina the Younger (Julia Agrippina)
Born: 15 AD
Died: 59 AD
You can never trust a woman who had a double canine in her upper right jaw, although it’s a sign of a good fortune! Read what’s below and you will see that we are right. Agrippina that’s up next in our list of most evil female rulers in history, had that extra canine, but it seems that good fortune was not her thing. Maybe because she was violent, domineering and by all means bad women? In 49AD she, her sister Livilla tried to form a plot to kill their brother Caligula in order to help their sister’s widower, Lepidus, become the new Emperor. You think that’s strange? The worst is yet to come! Her second marriage was just a financial boost for her political influence. Remember Emperor Claudius, Messalina’s husband? Well, he was an Agrippina’s husband too! Her third lucky charm, to be correct. Although their marriage was incestuous and immoral – considering that she was his niece – Claudius, being such a pushover, arranged their marriage to be a matter of the public interest. Her son Nero, who was adopted by Claudius, probably had been suffering from the Oedipus complex. Mother and son worked as a well-matched team in the number of deadly conspiracies. Alltogether, she poisoned two out of her three husbands and executed or extorted all her opponents and potential rivals for the Emperor’s hand in marriage. All that, for her and her son’s benefit. Unfortunately, her beloved son didn’t know how to appreciate her struggle! The beginning of Agrippina’s end can be set in a time when her son started to date, in her opinion, inadequate maidens. According to various written sources, Nero was very creative when it comes to finding the most appropriate way to get rid of his mother. In the end, he did it! Blood is thicker than water, after all.
