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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 ...
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 (1st century) (fl. early 1st century CE), wife of Herod of Chalcis; Mariamne (daughter of Herod Agrippa) (born 34 or 35), a daughter of Herod Agrippa. Mariamne the sister of the Apostle Philip; Olivia Mariamne Devenish (1771–1814), British socialite; Mariamne Johnes (1784-1811), daughter of Thomas Johnes, Hafod, Wales
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 the Great medallion from Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum, 16th century. Herod was born around 72 BCE [11] [12] in Idumea, south of Judea.He was the second son of Antipater the Idumaean, a high-ranking official under ethnarch Hyrcanus II, and Cypros, a Nabatean Arab princess from Petra, in present-day Jordan.
Category: Wives of Herod the Great. 3 languages. ... Mariamne (third wife of Herod) Mariamne I This page was last edited on 21 December 2023, at 13:12 (UTC). ...
Herod the Great executed his sons Alexander and Aristobulus IV in 7 BC, and engaged Herodias to Herod II (born ca. 27 BC; died AD 33), [2] her half-uncle. The marriage was opposed by Antipater II, Herod the Great's eldest son. Antipater's execution in 4 BC for plotting to poison his father left Herod II as first in line.
Aristobulus IV (31–7 BC) was a prince of Judea from the Herodian dynasty, and was married to his cousin, Berenice, daughter of Costobarus and Salome I.He was the son of Herod the Great and his second wife, Mariamne I, [1] the last of the Hasmoneans, and was thus a descendant of the Hasmonean Dynasty.