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Herod left his young wife in the care of his uncle Joseph, along with the instructions that if Antony should kill him, Joseph should kill Mariamne. Herod believed his wife to be so beautiful that she would become engaged to another man after his death and that his great passion for Mariamne prevented him from enduring a separation from her ...
Mariamne II was the third wife of Herod the Great.She was the daughter of Simon Boethus the High Priest.Josephus recounts their wedding thus: [1] There was one Simon, a citizen of Jerusalem, the son of one Boethus, a citizen of Alexandria, and a priest of great note there; this man had a daughter, who was esteemed the most beautiful woman of that time; and when the people of Jerusalem began to ...
Antipater's execution in 4 BC for plotting to poison his father left Herod II as first in line. However, when Herod the Great discovered that his wife Mariamne knew about the poison plot but did not try to stop it, he divorced her and dropped her son Herod II from the line of succession, just days before he died. [3]
Herod grudgingly orders the execution of his Hasmonean wife Mariamne I, perhaps due to her bitterness at the death of her other family members and belief in accusations that Herod had murdered Aristobulus III, another Hasmonean descendent. [130] [136] [137] 10 BCE. Herod gains influence over Batanaea to the east. As exilic Jews in Babylonia ...
Mariamne III was a daughter of Aristobulus IV and Berenice. She had three brothers, Herod of Chalcis , Herod Agrippa I , and Aristobulus V , and one sister, Herodias . Some time after the death of her father in 7 BCE, Mariamne III was betrothed to Antipater II , her uncle and the eldest son of Herod the Great .
Herod II (c. 27 BC – 33/34 AD) [1] [2] was the son of Herod the Great and Mariamne II, the daughter of Simon Boethus the High Priest, and the first husband of Herodias, daughter of Aristobulus IV and his wife Berenice. For a brief period he was his father's heir apparent, but Herod I removed him from
Antigonus was not, however, the last male Hasmonean; Aristobulus III, grandson of Aristobulus II through his elder son Alexander, and brother of the Hasmonean princess Mariamne, was briefly made high priest, but was soon executed (36 BCE) due to jealousy of Herod's first wife Doris. His sister, Mariamne was married to Herod, but fell victim to ...
Mariamne (fl. early 1st century CE) was the first wife of Herod of Chalcis, king of Chalcis in Asia Minor. [1] Mariamne was a granddaughter of Herod the Great and his wife, Malthaea . [ 2 ] She was the mother of Aristobulus.