Conspiracy Messalina
The 48 year, wanting to get the full power in their hands, Messalina conceives to make the emperor his lover, Guy Celia. It is caused was the fact that the position of Agrippina and Nero greatly strengthened since then, as it began to support the powerful Romans. So on Terentinskih 47 games, during the presentation, showing the siege of Troy, Messalina and Britannic were much less attention to the crowd than were present in the same Agrippina and Nero. Messalina treated this as the first manifestation of the fact that its credibility is falling.
At the beginning of 48, she coerces her lover Guy to divorce his wife Celia Yuniey Silan. When Claudius went to Ostia, Messalina, officially continuing to be married with the emperor, taking the first step of its planned conspiracy - it is in the presence of witnesses, concluded a marriage contract and married Celia.
Tiberius Claudius Narcissus told about this emperor. He, being a soft and pliable, hesitated in making a decision, and Narcissus himself, on behalf of the Emperor, gave pretorians command of the seizure of Messalina and Celia.
Messalina caught in Ostia, where she went to see Claudia. However, the emperor had already left town. Messalina was returned to Rome and placed in the Gardens of Lucullus, under the supervision of her mother, Domitius Lepidus.
Domitius never adopted a lifestyle Messalina, but did not refuse to be with her daughter in her last moments. Together they prepared a petition for clemency to Claudius, but it failed to have any action. Messalina was broken and cried all the time, only now realized the position in which she herself has set.
Witnessed the death of Messalina were three - Envoy of the Emperor, one of his freedmen and her mother. When the imperial legate and freedman appeared, Lepidus said his daughter: "Your life is finished. All that's left - make it a worthy end.
Messalina was suggested itself to kill himself, but she was unable to do so, and then legate stabbed her with a dagger. At the same time taken to witness all the time freedman insulted her. The body was left to Messalina mother.
Claudius did not react to the news of the death of his wife. At that time, when he heard about it, he dined. The only response was a request to pour him more wine. A few days after the death of the Senate sentenced her name to oblivion.