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Siblings of Wives of Herod the Great LEGEND

Male individuals Pheroras I Herod the Great I Mariamne II of Female individuals 68? – 5 BCE Before 73 – 40 BCE c. 65 BCE – 10 CE 73/74 – 4 BCE (Mariamne the Hasmonean) ? – ? (Malthace the Samaritan) ? – ? BCE Individuals without their own entry 54 – 29 BCE ? – 4 BCE Father: Simon Boethus (high priest) Father: ? References in ancient sources Tetrarch of 20 – 5 BCE Governor of Jerusalem 47? – 41 BCE Toparch of Jabneh, Ashdod, & Phasaelis Governor of 47 – 41 BCE Mother: ? Mother: ? 4 BCE – 10 CE Father: of Judaea Father: ? Historical/literary details Tetrarch of Judaea 41 – 40 BCE Mother: Alexandra Maccabeus Siblings: ? Mother: ? Siblings: ? Father: An#pater the Idumaean Tetrarch of Galilee 41 – 40 BCE Paternal relationship Mother: Cypros Father: An#pater the Idumaean Siblings: Aristobulus III Siblings: ? Marriages and children: Father: An#pater the Idumaean Marriages and children: Siblings: Herod the Great, Salome I, Joseph, Mother: Cypros King of Judaea Herod the Great — Philip Maternal relationship Mother: Cypros Marriages and children: Herod the Great — Herod II Marriages and children: Phasael Siblings: Herod the Great, Phasael, Joseph, 40/39 BCE – 4 BCE Herod the Great — Alexander, Aristobulus Herod the Great — Archelaus, An1pas, Marital relationship Siblings: Herod the Great, Salome I, Joseph, Pheroras : JW 1.561 Josephus: JW 1.561, Ant 17.1.3 IV, Salampsio, Cypros II Marriages and children: Pheroras Father: An#pater the Idumaean Divorced by Herod in 4 BCE. Born and raised in Jerusalem. ? Marriages and children: Marriages and children: Mother: Cypros Josephus: JW 1.240, 1.342, 1.435; Ant 15.1-7; Josephus: JW 1.561, Ant Version 1.0 Unnamed slave girl Joseph (uncle) Siblings: Salome I, Phasael, Joseph, Pheroras etc. Died in in 4 BCE. Copyright © 2017, Paul Davidson Sister of Mariamne I — Phasael III Costabarus — An#pater IV, I, Josephus: JW 1.181, 1.308, 2.99, etc. Mariamne was renowned for her beauty. Her http://isthatinthebible.wordpress.com unnamed daughter Marriages and children: Josephus: JW, Ant brother Aristobulus was appointed high The city Phasaelis was named by Herod the Alexas Helcias Doris — An1pater II Mariamne I — Aristobulus IV, Alexander, priest by Herod at her request, but was Great in his honour. Josephus: JW, Ant 15–17 Salampsio, Cypros II murdered by Herod a year later. Mariamne Strabo: Geography 16.2.46 Mariamne II — Herod II herself was executed by Herod in 29 BCE. Costabarus, the governor of Idumea under Malthace — Archelaus, An1pas, Olympias Herod, was eventually divorced by Salome Cleopatra of Jerusalem — Herod, Philip and executed for his disloyalty toward — Phasael II Herod and support for the Hasmoneans. Phaidra — Roxanne Elpis — Salome NT: Mt 2.1–22, Lk 1.5 Josephus: JW, Ant : 5.9.31, 5.11.38 : Roman History 49.23.6 Strabo: Geography 16.2.46

Children of Herod the Great Antipas (Herod Antipater) Berenice I Antipater II Aristobulus IV Alexander Salampsio Cypros II Herod II Archelaus Before 20 BCE – a!er 39 CE Olympias Philip () (Glaphyra of ) c. 35 BCE – ? c. 46 – 4 BCE 37 – 7 BCE 35 – 7 BCE c. 33 BCE – ? ? – ? 24 BCE – c. 33 CE Tetrarch of Galilee & Perea c. 17 BCE – ? 20 BCE – c. 34 CE 23 BCE – c. 18 CE 4 BCE – 39 CE c. 35 BCE – c. 6 CE Father: Costabarus Father: Herod the Great Father: Herod the Great Father: Herod the Great Father: Herod the Great Father: Herod the Great Father: Herod the Great Father: Herod the Great Tetrarch of Batanea, Iturea, Gaulanitis, of , , & Idumea Father: Archelaus of Cappadocia Mother: Salome I Mother: Doris Mother: Mariamne I Mother: Mariamne I Mother: Mariamne I Mother: Mariamne I Mother: Mariamne II Father: Herod the Great Mother: Malthace Trachonitis, & Auranitis 4 BCE – 34 CE Siblings: An#pater IV Siblings: (see Herod the Great) Siblings: (see Herod the Great) Siblings: (see Herod the Great) Siblings: (see Herod the Great) Siblings: (see Herod the Great) Siblings: (see Herod the Great) 4 BCE – 6 CE Siblings: (see Herod the Great) Mother: Unknown Armenian princess Mother: Malthace Siblings: – Siblings: (see Herod the Great) Father: Herod the Great Marriages and children: Marriages and children: Marriages and children: Marriages and children: Marriages and children: Marriages and children: Marriages and children: Father: Herod the Great Marriages and children: Mother: Cleopatra of Jerusalem Marriages and children: Aristobulus IV — Mariamne III, Herod V, Mariamne III — Phasael IV Berenice I — Mariamne III, Herod V, Princess Glaphyra — Tigranes, Alexander Phasael III — An#pater, Herod, Alexander, AnCpater IV — Unnamed son, Unnamed — Salome (II) Mother: Malthace Joseph II — Mariamne V Marriages and children: Siblings: (see Herod the Great) Alexander — Tigranes, Alexander Herodias, Agrippa I, Aristobulus Minor Unnamed daughter of AnCgonus the Herodias, Agrippa I, Aristobulus Minor Alexandra, Cypros III daughter Siblings: (see Herod the Great) Phasaelis of Nabatea Josephus: Ant Josephus: Ant Juba II of Mauritania Theudon (brother of Doris) Hasmonean Herodias Josephus: JW 1.561 Marriages and children: Josephus: Ant 16.11 Executed in 7 BCE. Josephus: Ant 18.130 Josephus: Ant 18.5.4 His wife, Herodias his niece, divorced him to Archelaus Marriages and children: Married her cousin Joseph II, son of Joseph Salome (II) Josephus: Ant 16.2 Josephus: JW 1.561 Married his cousin Berenice. Executed in 7 Married her cousin Phasael. Married her cousin Antipater IV. marry his brother Antipas. Mariamne (possibly Mariamne III) NT: Mk 6.14–29, Mt 14.1–12, Lk 3.1, 19–20, Herod’s brother. Josephus: JW 1.552, 2.115 Strabo: Geography 16.2.46 Exiled c. 40 CE upon his mother’s divorce. BCE. Princess Glaphyra 9.7–9, 23.7–12, 15, .27, 13.1 NT: Mk 6.17, Mt 14.3, Lk 3.1 Glaphyra was a princess, the daughter of the Cassius Dio: RH 65.15.3 Recalled in 29 BCE. Executed in 4 BCE. Josephus: JW 2.181-183, Ant 18, etc. Josephus: JW 2.1-117, 167-68, 181; Ant NT: Mt 2.22 king of Cappadocia. She apparently died Married her cousin Aristobulus IV. Her Nicolaus: FGrH 90, 136.8-11 17.23-30, 18.27-28, 106-108, 20.137, etc. Josephus: JW, Ant soon a"er marrying Archelaus, shortly second husband, Theudon, was also Tacitus: Histories 5.9 : Legatio 326 Strabo: Geography 16.2.46 before he was deposed. executed for conspiring against Herod. Strabo: Geography 16.2.46 Mistakenly referred to as the ex-husband of Philo: Legatio Philo: Legatio 299-305 Herodias in Mk 6.17 and Mt 14.3. Was Deposed by the Romans in 6 CE and Antipas is called “king Herod” in Mark, more actually married to Salome, daughter of his banished to Gaul. correctly “Herod the tetrarch” in Matthew sister-in-law and niece Herodias. and Luke. Antipas was exiled to Gaul in 39 by Emperor , and had his territory given to Agrippa I.

Mariamne III Herodias Agrippa I Cypros III Herod V Mariamne V Tigranes c. 12 BCE – ? c. 14 BCE – ? (Marcus Julius Agrippa) ? – ? (Herod of Chalcis) 1 – ? (Tigranes IV of Armenia) 11 BCE – 44 CE c. 9 BCE – 48 CE ? – 36 CE Father: Aristobulus IV Father: Aristobulus IV Father: Phasael III Father: Joseph II Mother: Berenice I Mother: Berenice I Governor of & Trachonitis Mother: Salampsio King of Chalcis 41 – 48 Mother: Olympias King of Armenia 10? – 13? Siblings: Herod V, Herodias, Agrippa I, Siblings: Mariamne III, Herod V, Agrippa I, 37 – 44 Siblings: An#pater, Herod, Alexander, Siblings: ? Father: Aristobulus IV Father: Alexander Aristobulus Minor Aristobulus Minor Alexandra Tetrarch of 37 – 44 Mother: Berenice I Mother: Princess Glaphyra Marriages and children: Marriages and children: Marriages and children: Siblings: Mariamne III, Agrippa I, Herodias, Marriages and children: Siblings: Alexander Tetrarch of Iturea & Paneas 39 – 44 Aristobulus Minor AnFpater II — Phasael IV Herod II — Salome II Agrippa I — Agrippa II, Drusus, Berenice II, Herod V — Aristobulus of Chalcis Josephus: JW 1.552, 2.222; Ant 18.139-40 AnFpas — ? King of Judea 41 – 44 Mariamne IV, Drusilla Marriages and children: Tacitus: 6.40 Josephus: Ant Josephus: Ant 18.134, JW 2.221f. Mariamne V — Aristobulus of Chalcis Historical data on how long Tigranes ruled Married her uncle Antipater II. Josephus: Ant 18.109-12, 136, 147-48, 240ff.; Josephus: Ant 18.130 Married her cousin Herod V, king of Chalcis. Father: Aristobulus IV Berenice II — Berenicianus, Hyrcanus Armenia is sketchy. He was apparently made JW 1.552 Mother: Berenice I Married her cousin king Agrippa I. Her father, Joseph, was the son of Joseph the king of Armenia by . It’s uncertain Divorced Herod, one of the sons of King Siblings: Mariamne III, Herod V, Herodias, Josephus: Ant 18.130ff, 20.15, 20.100-104; brother of Herod the Great. whether he was actually named Tigranes or Herod, to marry Antipas on the condition Aristobulus Minor JW 2.221 assumed it as a dynastic name. that he divorce his Nabatean wife Phasaelis. Received the right to appoint the high priest She accompanied Antipas when he went Marriages and children: of Jerusalem a"er Agrippa I’s death. Married into exile. Cypros III — Agrippa II, Drusus, Berenice II, his niece Berenice II a"er the death of his Mariamne IV, Drusilla first wife and cousin Mariamne V. NT: .1–23 Josephus: Ant 19.343-361, etc. Cassius Dio: RH 59.8.2, 65.15.3 Tacitus: Annals 12.23 Philo: Legatio Referred to as “king Herod” in Acts. Close friend of Emperor Caligula.

Mariamne IV Agrippa II Berenice II Drusilla Aristobulus of Chalcis Salome II 34 – ? (Marcus Julius Agrippa) (Berenice of , Julia Berenice) 38 – 79 c. 33 – 92 CE 14 – ? ? – ? 27 – 92 28 – a!er 81 Father: Agrippa I Father: Agrippa I King of Lesser Armenia 54 – 73 Father: Herod II Procurator of Judaea King of Chalcis 49 – 53 Queen of Chalcis 44 – 81 Mother: Cypros III Mother: Cypros III Mother: Herodias 52 – 58 Siblings: Agrippa II, Drusus, Berenice II, Siblings: Agrippa II, Drusus, Mariamne IV, King of Chalcis 57 – 92 King of Batanea, Trachonitis, Father: Agrippa I Drusilla Berenice II Marriages and children: Gaulonitis, Abilene, , Mother: Cypros III Father: Herod V Father: Unknown Philip Tarichaea, & Livias Siblings: Agrippa II, Drusus, Mariamne IV, Mother: Mariamne V Mother: Unknown Marriages and children: Marriages and children: Aristobulus of Chalcis — Herod, Agrippa, Drusilla Siblings: Berenicianus, Hyrcanus Siblings: Antonius Marcus Pallas Julius Archelaus 53/55 – 92 Julius Azizus (priest-king of Emessa) Aristobulus Demetrius of — Agrippus Marriages and children: Antonius Felix — Marcus Antonius Agrippa, Marriages and children: Father: Agrippa I Marriages and children: NT: Mk 6.17–29, Mt 14.3–11 Marcus Julius Alexander Antonia Clemen#ana Drusilla of Josephus: Ant 19 Mother: Cypros III Salome II — Herod, Agrippa, Aristobulus Josephus: Ant 18.130ff Herod V — Berenicianus, Hyrcanus Drusilla (of Judaea) — Marcus Antonius Siblings: Drusus, Berenice II, Mariamne IV, NT: .24 Although the daughter of Herodias is Polemon II of Agrippa, Antonia Clemen#ana Drusilla Josephus: Ant 19.9.1, 20.137, 141–141 Josephus: Ant 20.158; JW 2.252 mentioned in Mark and Matthew, she is Unknown third wife NT: .13, 26.1–32 Her second husband was Felix the Tacitus: Annals 14.26 called “Herodias” in the former and Marriages and children: None Initially passed over to inherit Chalcis due to Josephus: JW, Ant, Life procurator of Judea. According to Josephus, unnamed in the latter. NT: Acts 24 his youth, but was given Lesser Armenia by NT: Acts 25.13, 26.1–32 Tacitus: Histories 2 Felix used Simon the Magician to convince Josephus: Ant 20.137, 162–165; JW 2.247, a few years later. He might also be the Josephus: JW, Ant, Life Cassius Dio: Roman History 65.15.4 Drusilla to leave her husband and marry him. 252 same Aristobulus who ruled over another Dio Cassius: Roman History 46.15 : 7 Drusilla and her son died in the eruption of Tacitus: Annals 12.54, Histories 5.9 Syrian city called Chalcis (Chalcis ad Belum). Tacitus: Histories 1 : Saturae 6.155–158 Mt. Vesuvius. Suetonius: 28 Juvenal: Saturae 6.155–158 Her father-in-law Alexander of Alexandria Felix was the younger brother of the Greek Photius: Bibliotheca was the brother of Philo of Alexandria. She freedman Antonius Marcus Pallas. Personal friend of Josephus. Given the rank was rumored to have an incestuous of praetor in 75. Lived in Philippi as relationship with her brother Agrippa II. In his capital, and renamed it Neronias. 68, she became the lover of Titus.