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Alexander and Judaea
* Alexander Jannaeus, King of Judaea
* July 1 – Vespasian, commander of the Roman army in Judaea, proclaimed emperor by the legions of Egypt under Tiberius Julius Alexander
Alexander Cockburn, " The Tenth Crusade ," Counterpunch, September 7, 2002.: " Islamic fanatics flew those planes a year ago and here we are with a terrifying alliance of Judaeo-Christian fanatics, conjoined in their dreams of the recovery of the Holy Lands of the West Bank, Judaea and Samaria.
The wife of Aristobulus I, and afterward of Alexander Jannaeus, she was the last woman ruler of Judaea, and the last ruler of ancient Judaea to die as the ruler of an independent kingdom.
A bronze mite, also known as a Greek lepton | Lepton ( meaning small ), minted by Alexander Jannaeus, King of Judea | Judaea, 103-76 B. C.
Aristobulus was on his way to Judaea with his son Alexander, in 49 BC when " he was taken off by poison given him by those of Pompey's party ".

Alexander and son
Soon after Hermias ' death, Aristotle was invited by Philip II of Macedon to become the tutor to his son Alexander in 343 BC.
* 1948 – Alexander Onassis, American Greek socialite, son of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis ( d. 1973 )
Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz ( December 17, 1835 – March 27, 1910 ), son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer.
As the son of Neoptolemus I and brother of Olympias, Alexander I was an uncle of Alexander the Great.
Alexander Balas (), ruler of the Greek Seleucid kingdom in 150 – 146 BC, was a native of Smyrna of humble origin, but gave himself out to be the son of Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Laodice IV and heir to the Seleucid throne.
However, according to Xenophon, Polydorus was murdered by his brother Polyphron, who was, in turn, murdered by his nephew Alexanderson of Jason, in 369 BC.
Alexander II was a king of Epirus, and the son of Pyrrhus and Lanassa, the daughter of the Sicilian tyrant Agathocles.
Alexander was born as son of the King Casimir IV Jagiellon of Poland and Elisabeth Habsburg of Hungary, daughter of the King Albert of Hungary.
Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov was born on 10 March 1845 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the second son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and his wife Maria Alexandrovna ( Marie of Hesse ).
Alexander was the fourth son of Malcolm III by his wife Margaret of Wessex, grandniece of Edward the Confessor.
A Gaelic poem laments: It's bad what Malcolm's son has done, dividing us from Alexander ; he causes, like each king's son before, the plunder of stable Alba.
The marriage took place on 15 May 1239, and produced one son, the future Alexander III, born in 1241.
Alexander attempted to persuade Ewen, the son of Duncan, Lord of Argyll, to sever his allegiance to Haakon IV of Norway.
His only legitimate child and son, by his second wife, Alexander III succeeded him as King of Scots.
Alexander was born at Roxburgh, the only son of Alexander II by his second wife Marie de Coucy.
She arranged for Alexander to marry Sallustia Orbiana, the daughter of a noble Patrician family, but grew so jealous of Sallustia ’ s influence over her son that she had her banished from court.
* Alexander, Judean Prince, son to the above Alexander and Cappadocian Princess Glaphyra
* Alexander ( d. 1418 ), son of Bulgarian tsar Ivan Shishman
* Prince Alexander John of Wales ( 1871 ), short-lived son of Edward VII

Alexander and Aristobulus
* Alexander Jannaeus succeeds his brother Aristobulus I as king and high priest of Judea, until 76 BC.
* Battle at Mount Tabor in Judea: Roman troops, commanded by Gabinius, defeat the forces of Alexander, son of Aristobulus II of Judea, attempting to re-establish Judean independence.
Both Plutarch and Arrian relate that according to Aristobulus, Alexander pulled the knot out of its pole pin, exposing the two ends of the cord and allowing him to untie the knot without having to cut through it.
Upon Hyrcanus ' death, however, Aristobulus jailed his mother and three brothers, including Alexander Jannaeus, and allowed her to starve there.
Aristobulus ' brothers were freed from prison by his widow ; Alexander reigned from 103 – 76 BCE, and died during the siege of the fortress Ragaba.
Alexander Jannaeus ' son, Hyrcanus II, had scarcely reigned three months when his younger brother, Aristobulus II, rose in rebellion, whereupon Hyrcanus advanced against him at the head of an army of mercenaries and his Pharisee followers: " NOW Hyrcanus was heir to the kingdom, and to him did his mother commit it before she died ; but Aristobulus was superior to him in power and magnanimity ; and when there was a battle between them, to decide the dispute about the kingdom, near Jericho, the greatest part deserted Hyrcanus, and went over to Aristobulus.
When, in 50 BCE, it appeared that Julius Caesar was interested in using Aristobulus and his family as his clients to take control of Judea from Hyrcanus and Antipater, who were beholden to Pompey, supporters of Pompey had Aristobulus poisoned in Rome and executed Alexander in Antioch.
Aristobulus III, grandson of Aristobulus II through his elder son Alexander, was briefly made high priest, but was soon executed ( 36 BCE ) due to Herod's jealousy.
Her sons by Herod, Aristobulus IV and Alexander, were in their adulthood also executed by their father.
During Gabinius ' absence in Egypt, Syria had been devastated by robbers, and Alexander, son of Aristobulus, had again taken up arms with the object of depriving Hyrcanus II of the high-priesthood.
Herod the Great's execution of his Hasmonean sons, Alexander and Aristobulus IV in 7 BC, left the latter's daughter Herodias an orphaned minor.
Aristobulus of Cassandreia, a Greek historian who traveled to India with the expedition of Alexander the Great, recorded the practice of sati at the city of Taxila.
That honor fell to Aristobulus and Alexander, Herod's sons by the Hasmonean princess Mariamne.
It was ruled by Simon the son of Matisyahu ; then by his son Yochanan who started minting coins ; then by his son Yehuda Aristobolus ; then by his wife Salome Alexandra ; then by his brother Alexander Yannai ; then by his sons Hyrcanus and Aristobulus.
Arrian, writing in the second century of the common era, recorded that Alexander commanded Aristobulus, one of his warriors, to enter the monument.
Both Strabo and Arrian give nearly equal descriptions of the tomb, based on the eyewitness report of Aristobulus of Cassandreia, who at the request of Alexander the Great visited the tomb two times.
Regardless, Alexander the Great ordered Aristobulus to improve the tomb's condition and restore its interior.
Josephus said that John Hyrcanus had five sons but only named three in his histories -- Judah Aristobulus I, Antigonus I, and Alexander Jannai.
Salome Alexandra's oldest son by Alexander Jannaeus was Hyrcanus II who fought his younger brother Aristobulus II in the 60's BC over the Jewish High Priesthood.

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