Cleopatra VII Philopator (69-30 BC)

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Hieroglyphic name of Cleopatra VII

Cleopatra VII

Cleopatra VII Philopator was the Egyptian queen. Daughter of Ptolemy XII and perchance Cleopatra VI Tryphaena. She followed her father alongside her earlier brother and check, Ptolemy XIII, with whom she presently fell out. Their civil war was interrupted by the arrival in Egypt of Iulius Caesar who soon sided with Cleopatra and defeated her brothers rams in 47 BC during a battle in which he was defeated. Cleopatra VII Philopator was set up as ruler of Egypt with her smaller brother, Ptolemy XIV, as run, but she had become Caesars mistress and took him as the father of her son, Ptolemy Caesarion. She was in Rome in 44 BC when Caesar  was  late  and  hurriedly  returned  to  Egypt.  Her  brother soon died and was superseded as ruling pharaoh by her son as Ptolemy XV.

Cleopatra VII Philopator made an alliance with Marcus Antonius, who was in direction of the eastern Roman Empire, and took him 3 children. She used her involvement with Antonius to embellish Egypt to the detriment of other southeastern states. Their relationship gave Antoniuss touch, Augustus, the opportunity to vilify him in Rome and adjudge war on Egypt as a threat to Rome. Egyptian forces were frustrated at the battle of Actium in  31  BC  and,  after  the  fall  of Alexandria in 30 BC, Cleopatra VII Philopator committed suicide rather than be taken captive to Rome.

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Cleopatra VI Tryphaena (d. 57 BC)

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Hieroglyphic name of Cleopatra VI

Cleopatra VI

Cleopatra VI Tryphaena was the wife of Ptolemy XII. Her origin is strange, but she was presumably his sister or half sister and so daughter of Ptolemy IX. She evidently stayed in the country when her husband was routed out in 58 BC and ruled collectively with her daughter, Berenice IV. Earlier learners had reckoned that the  coruler  was  a  sister  of  Berenice  IV and  looked  Cleopatra V Tryphaena as the mother and Cleopatra VI Tryphaena as the daughter, but these two are now considered as one and the same; the appointment Cleopatra V has now been assigned to Cleopatra V Selene.

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Cleopatra V Selene (140/135-69 BC)

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Hieroglyphic name of Cleopatra V

Cleopatra V

Cleopatra V Selene (140/135-69 BC) was the daughter of King Ptolemy VIII and Cleopatra III. About 116 BC, she married her brother, Ptolemy IX, afterwards he was special by his mother to dissociate his first wife and their sister, Cleopatra IV. She stayed in Egypt when her conserve was discharged in 107 BC, and in 103 BC she united her cousin,  Antiochus  VIII  Grypus,  ruler  of  Syria,  son  of  her  aunt Cleopatra Thea,  and  early  husband  of  her  sister,  Cleopatra VI Tryphaena. Antiochus VIII Grypus was killed in 96 BC. Cleopatra Selene then married 2 further rulers of Syria, Antiochus IX Cyzicenus  (d.  95  BC),  cousin  of  her  husband  but  as well  his  maternal half brother finished Cleopatra Thea and former husband of her other sister,  Cleopatra  IV,  and  in the end  her  stepson, Antiochus  X  Eusebes (killed around 89 BC). She plain had two sons by her first husband, whose fate is uncertain, and two sons by her last husband, who aimed to rule in Syria. Cleopatra Selene was seized during an invasion of Syria by Tigranes, king of Armenia, and gone in Seleucia-on-the-Tigris  in  69  BC.  Because  the  last  Cleopatra  V Tryphaena and Cleopatra VI Tryphaena are now involved as identical, Cleopatra Selene is quoted in more recent scholarship as Cleopatra V Selene.

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Cleopatra IV (d. 113 BC)

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Hieroglyphic name of Cleopatra IV

Cleopatra IV

Cleopatra IV (d. 113 BC) was the daughter of King Ptolemy VIII and Queen Cleopatra III. Associate of her brother, Ptolemy IX, who was forced to divorce  her  by  their  mother  some  116  BC.  Cleopatra  IV fled  to Cyprus and then Syria, where she united the Seleucid king Antiochus IX Cyzicenus. She was in Antioch in 113 BC when it came to his touch, Antiochus VIII Grypus, whose married woman, her sister Cleopatra VI Tryphaena, set her execution.

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Cleopatra III (158-101 BC)

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Hieroglyphic name of Cleopatra III

Cleopatra III

Cleopatra III  (158-101 BC) was the daughter of King Ptolemy VI and Cleopatra II. She gone the second check of her uncle, Ptolemy VIII, about 141 BC, which eventually led to a civil war between her mother,  Cleopatra II,  who  was  the  first  associate, and  her husband. Peace was eventually repaired in 124 BC. Cleopatra bore her husband 5  children,  including Ptolemy IX,  Ptolemy X, Cleopatra IV, Cleopatra VI Tryphaena, and Cleopatra V Selene. Upon Ptolemy VIII's death in 116 BC, she was given the superb of which son would predominate with her. She idolized her younger son, Ptolemy X, but was extra by public squeeze to take her elder son, Ptolemy IX, who was finally kicked out in favor of his younger brother in 107 BC. This gone to civil war between the competition kings in Cyprus and Syria. Cleopatra  III  died  in  101  BC,  allegedly  executed  by  her  unhappy  son, Ptolemy X.

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Cleopatra II (185-116 BC)

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Hieroglyphic name of Cleopatra II

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of Cleopatra II

Cleopatra II (185-116 BC) was the daughter  of  Ptolemy V and Cleopatra I and wife of Ptolemy VI and Ptolemy VIII. She was married to her brother, Ptolemy VI, in April 176 BC and held joint ruler of Egypt in 170 BC in the look of the threat of encroachment by the Seleucid king Antiochus IV. When her husband was enchanted by the enemy, she and her smaller brother, Ptolemy VIII, gone in Alexandria. Antiochus IV was special to break Egypt under Roman pressing, and the common rule of the three siblings was fixed. In 164 BC, civil war broke between the brothers, and Ptolemy VIII was routed out to Cyrene. Cleopatra II bore four children to Ptolemy VI, taking Ptolemy Eupator, Ptolemy VII, Cleopatra Thea, and Cleopatra III. Her married man was killed in 145 BC, and she briefly acted as potent for her son, Ptolemy VII, until power was captured by her brother, Ptolemy VIII, who married her and murdered her son. Cleopatra bore her new husband one son, Ptolemy Memphites, but he soon precious her daughter Cleopatra III. Civil war broke out between the mates in 132 BC during which Ptolemy VIII murdered his son, Memphites, before regaining control in 130 BC. Peace was finally repaired between the mates in 124 BC, when Cleopatra II was established as older queen. She is last read in 116 BC having survived her second married man.

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