It has been theorized that her mother was Julia (daughter of Julius Caesar Drusus and Livilla), which would make Bassa the granddaughter of Tiberius; however, this lineage is uncertain because her father, Gaius Rubellius Blandus married Julia when he around 55, which makes an earlier marriage...
Nor had he minded when he’d overheard one society matron say to another that she found him very strange, and she would not allow her daughter to consider him as a potential suitor—if her daughter were to become interested, which, the matron said emphatically, she never would. Hugh had ...