Tarquin the proud biography of williams

Tarquinius the Proud (Lucius Tarquinius Superbus) was born in the 6th century BCE. According to the tradition, he was the seventh and last Roman king of Etruscan origin.

Reigned 535-509 BCE

Coming to power

The Tarquins were an Etruscan family originating from the city of Tarquinia. Perhaps they also had Greek blood in their veins – Livy writes that Tarquinius the Proud’s grandfather came from Corinth.

The first ruler of this family was Tarquinius the Old, the fifth Roman king.

Why was tarquin the proud overthrown

He was succeeded by Servius Tullius, whose daughter Tulia married Lucius Tarquinius, son (or grandson) of Tarquinius the Old. Lucius believed that by reason of his origin he deserved the throne and he hated his father-in-law. According to the records, the power-hungry Tulia directly urged her husband to overthrow and even kill her father.

Lucius, relying on the senators who owed their position to Tarquinius the Old, began to incite the Romans