Cleopatra of Jerusalem
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Cleopatra of Jerusalem was a woman who lived in the 1st century BC during the Roman Empire. She was the fifth wife of King of Judea, Herod the Great.[1]
Biography
There is a possibility that Cleopatra could have been a daughter of a local noble from
Cleopatra VII of Egypt
.
Hasmonaean Dynasty. She had married King Herod the Great in 25 BC.[2]
Herod possibly married her as a part of a political alliance.
Cleopatra had two sons with Herod who were:
- Herod (b. 24 BC/23 BC), of which very little is known. [citation needed]
- Trachonitis.
Cleopatra's children by Herod were raised and educated in Rome. After the death of her husband in 4 BC, her second son inherited some of his father's dominion and ruled as a Roman
client king until his death in 34.[3] Cleopatra became the mother-in-law of Philip's wife and niece Salome
. Philip and Salome had no children.
See also
References
Sources
- Josephus: Antiquities of the Jews 17.1.3
- Josephus: The Jewish War 1.28.4
- http://virtualreligion.net/iho/herod2.html
- http://www.historyofthedaughters.com/69.pdf
- https://www.livius.org/he-hg/herodians/herod_the_great02.html
Richard Gottheil; Samuel Krauss (1901–1906). "Cleopatra of Jerusalem". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.- Peter Richardson (1 January 1999). Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans. T&T Clark. p. 235. ISBN 978-0-567-08675-4.
- Aryeh Kasher; Eliezer Witztum (2007). King Herod: A Persecuted Persecutor : a Case Study in Psychohistory and Psychobiography. Walter de Gruyter. p. 180. ISBN 978-3-11-018964-3.
