* Berenice IV, queen of Egypt ( b. 77 BC )

* At Sosibius ' direction, Ptolemy IV puts to death in succession his uncle, Lysimachus, his brother Magas, and his mother Berenice II.

It is believed, though not proven by historical sources, that Berenice IV poisoned her so she could assume sole rulership.

The grandson of Herod the Great and son of Aristobulus IV and Berenice.

Berenice was born in 28 to Herod Agrippa and Cypros, as granddaughter to Aristobulus IV and great-granddaughter to Herod the Great.

Ptolemy IV Philopator ( Greek:, Ptolemaĩos Philopátōr, reigned 221 – 205 BCE ), son of Ptolemy III and Berenice II of Egypt was the fourth Pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt.

Their children were: Ptolemy IV Philopator, Magas, Lysimachus, Alexander, Arsinoe III and Berenice.

** Berenice IV of Egypt, daughter of Ptolemy XII of Egypt and elder sister of Cleopatra VII

Philip may have survived his deposition: a Seleucid prince Philip is mentioned as a prospective bridegroom to queen Berenice IV of Egypt, sister of Cleopatra VII in 56 BC.

The young boy-king is probably the same Seleucus who later went to marry a Ptolemaic princess called Berenice IV ( a sister of the famous Cleopatra VII of Egypt ) but allegedly was murdered by the discontented bride for his lack of manners.

# Berenice IV

His daughter Berenice IV became his successor.

Others say that when Ptolemy XII fled to Rome to avoid an uprising in Alexandria against him ( in 58 BC ), she and her sister Berenice IV took control of Ptolemaic Egypt.

Berenice IV Epiphaneia (, 77 – 55 BC ) born and died in Alexandria, Egypt.

Berenice was the daughter of Ptolemy XII Auletes and probably Cleopatra V Tryphaena, sister of the famous Cleopatra VII ( lover of Roman Triumvirs Julius Caesar and Mark Antony ), Arsinoe IV, Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV.

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Should she really have died that early, then the Cleopatra Tryphaena who is mentioned — after the expulsion of Ptolemy XII — as co-ruler of Egypt ( together with Berenice IV ) in 58 and 57 BC, and died around 57 BC, must be her daughter, numbered by some historians as Cleopatra VI Tryphaena.

This would comport with the account by Strabo, who reports Ptolemy XII to have had only three daughters ; we can reliably identify Berenice IV, Cleopatra VII, and Arsinoe IV as the king's daughters, so that there would not be left any room for a Cleopatra VI.

This presumed second wife of the Egyptian king could have been the mother of Cleopatra VII and this daughter's younger siblings, while Berenice IV was the daughter of Cleopatra V because Strabo only calls the oldest daughter of Ptolemy XII a legitimate child.

If this theory is true then Cleopatra V assumed power together with her daughter Berenice IV after the expulsion of Ptolemy XII ( 58 BC ) and died before the end of the next year, as her name again disappears from the documents after 57 BC.

# REDIRECT Berenice IV of Egypt

* Berenice IV of Egypt is believed to have poisoned her sister Cleopatra VI Tryphaena in 57 BC.

The only Ptolemaic Queens to officially rule on their own were Berenice III and Berenice IV.

Egaeus loses his interest in the full person of Berenice as she gets sick ; she becomes an object to analyze, not to admire.

* Berenice III of Egypt ( 120-80 BC ), queen of Egypt sometimes known as Cleopatra Berenice

** Berenice II, queen of Egypt, daughter of Magas, King of Cyrenaica ( in modern Libya ), whose marriage to Ptolemy III Euergetes has reunited her country with Egypt ( b. c. 267 BC )

Under the rule of his father, Titus gained notoriety in Rome serving as prefect of the Praetorian Guard, and for carrying on a controversial relationship with the Jewish queen Berenice.

* Berenice II, queen of Egypt, daughter of Magas, King of Cyrenaica ( in modern Libya ), whose marriage to Ptolemy III Euergetes has reunited her country with Egypt ( b. c. 267 BC )

* Arsinoe III, queen of Egypt from 220 BC, daughter of Ptolemy III and Berenice II ( d. 204 BC )

* Berenice, wife of Ptolemy, is proclaimed queen of Egypt.

** Berenice ( Seleucid queen ), daughter of Ptolemy II of Egypt and wife of Seleucid monarch Antiochus II Theos

The identity of the king and queen in question is not given, but is generally thought to either be King Herod Agrippa I and his wife Cypris, or King Herod Agrippa II and his sister Berenice.

Berenice, queen of Cappadocia

In 249 or 250 BC, Demetrius married his great niece, the Greek Cyrenaean princess and future Greek queen of Egypt, Berenice II.

Berenice III ( 120 – 80 BC, Greek: Βερενίκη ), sometimes called Cleopatra Berenice, ruled as queen of Egypt from 81 to 80 BC, and possibly from 101 to 88 BC jointly with her uncle / husband Ptolemy X Alexander I.

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* Pyrrhus, the King of Epirus, is taken as a hostage to Egypt after the Battle of Ipsus and makes a diplomatic marriage with the princess Antigone, daughter of Ptolemy and Berenice.

The identity of Cleopatra's mother is unknown, but she is generally believed to be Cleopatra V Tryphaena of Egypt, the sister or cousin and wife of Ptolemy XII, or possibly another Ptolemaic family member who was the daughter of Ptolemy X and Cleopatra Berenice III Philopator if Cleopatra V was not the daughter of Ptolemy X and Berenice III.

* Berenice III, reigning Queen of Egypt ( d. 80 BC )

* Following a long engagement, Ptolemy III marries Berenice II, the daughter of Magas, king of Cyrene ; thereby reuniting Egypt and Cyrenaica.

* Mariamne, who married Gaius Julius Archelaus Antiochus Epiphanes ; they had a daughter Berenice ( daughter of Mariamne ) AD who lived with her mother in Alexandria, Egypt after her parents divorce

When Octavian invaded Egypt in 30 BC, Cleopatra sent Caesarion, at the time 17 years old, to the Red Sea port of Berenice for safety, with possible plans of an escape to India.

* Ptolemy XI of Egypt had his wife, Berenice III, murdered shortly after their wedding in 80 BC.

Berenice I ( c. 340 BC-between 279-268 BC ) was a Greek Macedonian noblewoman and through her marriage to Ptolemy I Soter, became the first Queen of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt.

After the death of her first husband, Berenice travelled to Egypt with her children as a lady-in-waiting for her mother ’ s first cousin Eurydice who was the wife of Ptolemy I. Ptolemy I was one of the generals of King Alexander the Great and founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Ancient Egypt.