Arsinoe III of Egypt PRIVACY FILTER Married/ Related to: Philopater Ptolemy IV King of Egypt http://www.gendex.com/users/Enf_Bry/Enf_Bry/i1954.html29618. Cleopatra's Egypt: Age of the Ptolemies, son of Euergetes Ptolemy III King of Egypt and Berenike II of Cyrene. Born at Abt. 244 BC, died at Abt. 204 BC [Neet3.FTW] Ptolemy IV Philopator was the fourth ruler of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. Philopator means 'Father-loving'. He married his sister Arsinoe and the two received a cult as the Father-loving Gods (Theoi Philopatores). He died in the summer of 204. After his death, two of his most powerful ministers had his wife, Arsinoe III, killed. Source: www.touregypt.net Child: 1. Epiphanes Ptolemy VBorn at Abt. 210 BC, died at Abt. 181 BC [Neet3.FTW] Ptolemy V Epiphanes was the fifth ruler of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. He was the son of Ptolemy IV Philopator and Arsinoe III. He became king after his father's death, when he was only five years old. After his father's death, his mother was eager to become the next regent. Ptolemy IV Philopator's two most powerful ministers, Sosibius and Agathocles had Arsinoe murdered. He was passed from the control of one adviser to another. The Rosetta Stone gives the trilingual inscription of the ceremonies attending the coronation of Ptolemy V Epiphanes. He was married to Cleopatra I. He died at the age of twenty-eight while putting down the last of the insurgents in the Delta. There were rumors that he had been poisoned. He left his wife, who was the daughter of Antiochus, as regent for their young son Ptolemy VI Philomentor. Source: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism |