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Mariamne (third wife of Herod)

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Herod the Great (m. 23 BC–4 BC)

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Herod the Great, Mariamne I, Philip the Tetrarch, Antipater the Idumaean, Herod Archelaus

Mariamne II was the third wife of Herod the Great. She was the daughter of Simon Boethus the High Priest. Josephus recounts their wedding thus:


She had one child by Herod, called Herod II or Herod Boethus. Herod II married his niece, Herodias, and by her had a daughter, Salome.

Mariamne II was implicated in the plot of Antipater against her husband (Herod) in 4 BCE. As a result, Herod divorced her and removed her father (Simon Boethus) as high priest. Additionally, her son Herod II was removed from the line of succession in Herod's last will.

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