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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 ...
Mariamne I (d. 29 BCE), also called Mariamne the Hasmonean, was a Hasmonean princess and the second wife of Herod the Great. Her parents, Alexandra Maccabeus and Alexander of Judaea, were cousins who both descended from Alexander Jannaeus. She was known for her great beauty, as was her brother Aristobulus III. Herod's fear of his Hasmonean ...
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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 (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
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]
Aristobulus III, grandson of Aristobulus II and Hyrcanus II, 36 BCE (He was the last of the Hasmoneans; brother of Herod's second wife Mariamne I) Ananelus (restored), 36–30 BCE; Joshua ben Fabus, 30–23 BCE; Simon ben Boethus, 23–5 BCE (his daughter Mariamne II was the third wife of Herod the Great) Matthias ben Theophilus, 5-4 BCE [16]
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.