Marcus Aemilius Lepidus the Younger or Marcus Aemilius Lepidus Minor (; died 30 BC) was a son of

triumvir In the Roman Republic, or were commissions of three men appointed for specific tasks. There were many tasks that commissions could be established to conduct, such as administer justice, mint coins, support religious tasks, or found colonies. M ...

Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and his wife Junia Secunda, a half-sister of Caesar's assassin and friend

Brutus Marcus Junius Brutus (; ; 85 BC – 23 October 42 BC) was a Roman politician, orator, and the most famous of the assassins of Julius Caesar. After being adopted by a relative, he used the name Quintus Servilius Caepio Brutus, which was reta ...

. Lepidus was executed by

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, the future Roman Emperor, in 30 BC, as a leader in a conspiracy against him.

Velleius Marcus Velleius Paterculus (; ) was a Roman historian, soldier and senator. His Roman history, written in a highly rhetorical style, covered the period from the end of the Trojan War to AD 30, but is most useful for the period from the death o ...

says that his wife Servilia committed suicide after her husband's death by swallowing burning hot coals. Lepidus had at least one younger brother and possibly a sister. He was likely the son whom his father had once engaged to

Mark Antony Marcus Antonius (14 January 1 August 30 BC), commonly known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman people, Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the Crisis of the Roman Republic, transformation of the Roman Republic ...

's eldest daughter Antonia. He sat in the

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and was married to Servilia, who may have been the daughter of the Caesarian P. Servilius Isauricus and Junia Prima, his aunt.

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* * https://web.archive.org/web/20090416005759/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1877.html Marcus Aemilius Lepidus the Younger 1st-century BC Romans Executed ancient Roman people People executed by the Roman Republic Year of birth unknown 30 BC deaths Lepidus {{AncientRome-politician-stub