Cleopatra of Jerusalem

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Cleopatra ( ancient Greek Κλεοπάτρα ) was one in the 1st century BC. Living Jewess. She became the fifth wife of the Jewish King Herod the Great .

Cleopatra came from Jerusalem . She married Herod around 25 BC. And gave birth - probably in the second half of the 20s BC. BC - two sons together, the later tetrarch Philip and a Herod, of whom no details are known.

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  1. Flavius ​​Josephus , Jüdische Antiquities 17, 21 and Jüdischer Krieg 1, 562.