Aeneas and his Trojan wife Creusa were the parents of Ascanius, who fled burning Troy led by the hand as Aeneas carried Anchises on his shoulders. Later called Iulus, Ascanius founded Alba Longa and gave the Julian gens its divine ancestry.
⚠ Livy (Ab Urbe Condita I.1-3) and some traditions make Ascanius the son of Lavinia rather than Creusa. Virgil follows the Trojan parentage.
Creusa's shade appeared to Aeneas as he desperately searched for her in the burning ruins of Troy, forbidding his grief and prophesying that a new kingdom and a royal bride awaited him in the western land of Hesperia.
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