Emperor Claudius Born: Rome's Unlikely Ruler Arrives
Claudius had a limp, a stammer, and a tendency to twitch — which is probably why the Julio-Claudian family kept him alive while murdering everyone else. He was seen as harmless. When the Praetorian Guard assassinated Caligula in 41 AD, they dragged Claudius out from behind a curtain where he'd been hiding and made him emperor. He turned out to be a capable administrator. He conquered Britain, expanded the empire, built infrastructure. He was likely poisoned by his wife Agrippina so her son Nero could succeed him.
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