Cleopatra I (215-176 bc)

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Hieroglyphic name of Cleopatra I
Cleopatra I
Cleopatra I (215-176 bc) was the wife of King Ptolemy V and daughter of Antiochus III, rule of the Seleucid Empire, and Laodice of Pontus. She  was  engaged  to  Ptolemy  V in  196  BC  and  marital  him  in 194-193 BC as part of a peace settlement between Egypt and the Seleucid  Empire.  She  had  three  children,  admitting  Cleopatra  II, Ptolemy VI, and Ptolemy VIII. Upon the dying of her husband in 180 BC, she acted as regent until her own end between April and July 176 BC.



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