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How did Claudius I's third wife die?

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He caused Messalina , his third wife, to be executed and was in turn supposedly poisoned by her successor, Agrippina the Younger , after she had persuaded him to pass over his son Britannicus as heir in favor of Nero , her son by a former husband.

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