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Ptolemy I Soter
Macedonian general, ruler of Egypt
- Child of Lagus and Arsinoe of Macedon
- Married to Artakama, Eurydice of Egypt, Berenice I of Egypt
- Dated the 360s BCE – the 280s BCE
pharaoh
somatophylakes
strategos
Offices on record
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
3 offices on record
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.
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- Dates unrecorded somatophylakes
- Dates unrecorded strategos
Family
The family of Ptolemy I Soter
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 19
Family 19
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 marriage · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (mother) Arsinoe of Macedon mother of Ptolemy I Soter
- child of (father) Lagus ancestor of the Ptolemaic dynasty
- of the house Ptolemaic dynasty Macedonian Greek royal family which ruled the Ptolemaic Empire in Egypt
- parent of (child) Argaeus of Egypt
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parent of (father) Arsinoe II Ptolemaic Greek Princess of Ancient Egypt and Queen of Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedonia - parent of (child) Irene daughter of Ptolemy I and Thais
- parent of (child) Lagos son of Ptolemy I Soter and Thaïs
- parent of (child) Leontiscus son of Ptolemy I and Thais
- parent of (child) Lysandra Ptolemaic princess, queen consort of Macedonia
- parent of (child) Meleager King of Macedon briefly, 279 BCE
- parent of (child) Philotera princess of Hellenistic period, daughter of Berenice I and Ptolemy I
- parent of (child) Ptolémaïs Lagid princess; daughter of Ptolemy Soter, fifth wife of Demetrius Poliorcetes
- parent of (child) Ptolemy Ceraunus king of Macedon
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parent of (father) Ptolemy II Philadelphus king of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt (308–246 B.C.) - partner of Thaïs Greek hetaera involved with Alexander the Great
- sibling of Menelaus brother and general of Ptolemy I Soter, priest of the cult of Alexander
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married to Berenice I of Egypt Egyptian queen consort - married to Artakama wife of Ptolemy I Soter
- married to Eurydice of Egypt Egyptian queen consort
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
Connections
How Ptolemy I Soter connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Succession in office 1
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
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Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
23 statements on this record
- 3 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 20 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.
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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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