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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 .
Mariamne (c. 1605), a French tragedy by Alexandre Hardy; The Tragedy of Mariam, the Faire Queene of Jewry (1613) an English drama by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary; Herod and Antipater, with the Death of Faire Mariam (1622), an English drama by Gervase Markham and William Sampson; Mariamne (1636), a French drama by François Tristan l'Hermite
After Mariamne's death, he married his niece Berenice, with whom he had two sons, Berenicianus and Hyrcanus. [ 2 ] Around 41 CE, at the request of his brother, Herod Agrippa, emperor Claudius granted him the rule of Chalcis, a territory north of Judaea, with the title of king. [ 4 ]
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.
The first wife of Archelaus is given by Josephus simply as Mariamne, [12] perhaps Mariamne III, daughter of Aristobulus IV, whom he divorced to marry Glaphyra. She was the widow of Archelaus' brother Alexander, though her second husband, Juba, king of Mauretania, was alive.
Aristobulus III (53–36 BCE) was the last scion of the Hasmonean royal house, brother of Herod the Great's wife Mariamne, and grandson of Hyrcanus II and Aristobulus II. He was a favourite of the people on account of his noble descent and handsome presence, and thus became an object of fear to Herod, who at first sought to ignore him entirely ...
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 was killed by his father five days before Herod's own death according to Josephus. (Some records indicate a period of two years between Antipater's death and Herod the Great's death). According to Graves, a pregnant Mary is compelled to pretend to marry an old, pious carpenter, Joseph, to protect herself and the unborn Jesus.