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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 ...
English: Title: Herod's family tomb in Nikoforieh, Jerusalem. Tomb of Mariamne Tomb of Mariamne Abstract/medium: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection
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.
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 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]
Mariamne III (fl. 7 BCE), sister of Herodias; 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 ...
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.