Cleopatra IV
Cleopatra IV | |
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Queen Consort of Syria) | |
Tenure | 114–112 BC (in opposition to queen consort Tryphaena) |
Coronation | 114 BC |
Born | c. 138 – 135 BC |
Died | 112 BC (aged 22–26) |
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Issue |
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Cleopatra III of Egypt |
Cleopatra IV (
Biography
Queen of Egypt
Cleopatra IV was the daughter of
.Cleopatra IV married her brother Ptolemy IX when he was still a prince in c. 119/118 BC. Cleopatra IV may be the mother of Ptolemy XII Auletes and Ptolemy of Cyprus, although an unnamed concubine could be the mother of these two men as well.[1]
In c. 115 BC Cleopatra III forced Cleopatra IV and Ptolemy IX to divorce. She replaced Cleopatra IV with her sister Cleopatra Selene.[3]
Queen of Syria and death
After her forced divorce, Cleopatra IV fled Egypt and went to
In his comprehensive website about Ptolemaic genealogy, Christopher Bennett also notes the possibility that Cleopatra IV, from her brief marriage to Antiochus IX Cyzicenus, may have been the mother of the later Seleucid monarch, Antiochus X Eusebes ("the Pious").[5] Antiochus X would go on to marry Cleopatra IV's younger sister, Cleopatra Selene, thus making him the spouse of a woman who was his stepmother (Selene married both of her sisters' widowers, Grypus and Cyzicenus, before marrying Eusebes) and perhaps his maternal aunt.
Ancestry
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See also
References
External links
- Cleopatra IV, at Livius.org