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Herod the Great
הורדוס he
King of Judea from 37/6 BCE to 4/1 BCE
- Child of Antipater the Idumaean and Cypros
- Consort of Doris, Mariamne I, Mariamne II and 5 more
- Traditionally c. 74 BCE – c. 4 BCE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
Offices held 1
Family
The family of Herod the Great
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 45
Kinship in an account 29
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (father) Antipater the Idumaean 1st century BCE King of Judea - child of (mother) Cypros wife of Antipater the Idumaean, mother of Herodes the Great
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parent of (child) Alexander son of Herod, heir of Judea -
parent of (child) Antipater son of Herod and Doris, heir of Judea -
parent of (child) Aristobulus IV Herodian prince of Judea - parent of (child) Cypros Herodian noble, daughter of Herod the Great
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parent of (child) Herod Antipas 1st century AD tetrarch of Galilee and Perea -
parent of (child) Herod Archelaus Ethnarch of Samaria/Judea/Idumea from 4 BC to 6 AD -
parent of (child) Herod II son of Herod the Great of Judea and Mariamne II (c. 27 BC - 33/34 AD) - parent of (child) Herod IV son of Herod the Great and Cleopatra of Jerusalem; elder (full) brother of Philip the Tetrarch
- parent of (child) Olympias daughter of Herod the Great
- parent of (child) Phasael III son of Herod the Great
- parent of (child) Philip the Tetrarch son of Herod the Great and ruler of the northeast part of his father's kingdom (r. 4 BCE-34 CE)
- parent of (child) Roxanne daughter of Herod the Great
- parent of (child) Salampsio daughter of Herod an Mariamne
- parent of (child) Salome daughter of Herod the Great
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partner of (spouse) Mariamne I second wife of Herod the Great - partner of (spouse) Doris first wife of Herod the Great
- partner of (spouse) partner of: recorded as unknown
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partner of (spouse) Cleopatra of Jerusalem fifth wife of Herod the Great - partner of (spouse) Elpis wife of Herod the Great
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partner of (spouse) Malthace wife of Herod the Great - partner of (spouse) Mariamne II wife of Herod the Great
- partner of (spouse) Pallas wife of Herod the Great
Family 16
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (child) Antipater the Idumaean 1st century BCE King of Judea
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of the house Herodian dynasty royal dynasty of Idumaean (Edomite) descent - parent of (father) Alexander son of Herod, heir of Judea
- parent of (father) Antipater son of Herod and Doris, heir of Judea
- parent of (father) Aristobulus IV Herodian prince of Judea
- parent of (father) Herod Antipas 1st century AD tetrarch of Galilee and Perea
- parent of (father) Herod Archelaus Ethnarch of Samaria/Judea/Idumea from 4 BC to 6 AD
- parent of (father) Herod II son of Herod the Great of Judea and Mariamne II (c. 27 BC - 33/34 AD)
- parent of (father) Philip the Tetrarch son of Herod the Great and ruler of the northeast part of his father's kingdom (r. 4 BCE-34 CE)
- sibling of Phasael prince from the Herodian Dynasty of Judea, elder brother of Herod
- sibling of Pheroras youngest brother of Herod the Great
- sibling of Salome I sister of Herod the Great
- married to Malthace wife of Herod the Great
- married to Cleopatra of Jerusalem fifth wife of Herod the Great
- married to Mariamne I second wife of Herod the Great
- married to Mariamne II wife of Herod the Great
Connections
How Herod the Great connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Identification 1
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Text 1
What this means
A work, its editions and its witnesses are distinct; their dates are not interchangeable.
Does not imply that the work is the only account · that the work is contemporary with what it describes
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
35 statements on this record
- 13 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 22 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 3 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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