Ptolemy X (107-88 BCE)

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Ptolemy X
Ptolemy X Alexander I was the son of Cleopatra III and King Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II Physcon. His mother was united to King Ptolemy VIII patch her individual mother was set his official married woman. Cleopatra III took two sons  Ptolemy IX Philometor Soter II (Lathyros) and Ptolemy X Alexander I and 3 daughters, Cleopatra IV, Cleopatra Tryphaena, and Cleopatra Selene. Upon the death of Ptolemy VIII, his will given the successiveness of the Egyptian throne to Cleopatra III and to whosoever son she preferred. Cleopatra III in reality hated Lathyros and favorite Ptolemy X Alexander, the earliest of her two sons. Unluckily, the citizens of Alexandria preferred Lathyros to be co-regent. At the time, Lathyros was the governor of Cyprus and he was summoned back to Alexandria to grown co-ruler with his mother (106-101 BC). Ptolemy X Alexander I was old sent to Cyprus in Lathyros place in 113 BC.

Lathyros marriage to sister Cleopatra IV, was reversed by his mother and he was married to his smallest sister Cleopatra Selene. Cleopatra IV fled to Cyprus where she tried to raise an army and marry her other brother Ptolemy X Alexander. When her effort to marry her second brother broken, she flew to Syria where she used her army as a portion and married Antiochus IX Cyzicenus who was son of Antiochus Sidetes and Cleopatra Thea. Cleopatra III ne'er changed her head and eventually succeeded in disbelieving Ptolemy IX in 107 BC by accusing him of trying to hit her. Ptolemy IX Lathyros was then special to flee back to Cyprus providing his wife and his two sons behind . It was at this time that Ptolemy X Alexander was mobilized by his mother support to Alexandria from Cyprus and took the throne.

Ptolemy X Alexander I prevailed Egypt jointly with his mother Cleopatra III until her last five years later in 101 BC. Still the publicity of Ptolemy X Alexander never materialized. Eventually he was driven from Egypt by his own cases and died in a naval battle, or perhaps murdered, in 88 BC. Lathyros was worked back to Alexandria to try to supersede together the Ptolemaic Empire. He died at the years of 62 in 80 BC leaving no legitimate heir to the throne, which then gone to his daughter Cleopatra Berenike who found alone shortly before Ptolemy XI, son of Ptolemy X Alexander, was held to marry his stepmother. Clean 19 days after the marraige, Ptolemy XI gone his new wife irritating the people who them stormed the palace and downed him.



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