Hieroglyphic name:
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Hieroglyphic name of Cleopatra I |
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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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