Cleopatra IV was the daughter ofPtolemy VIII Physcon and Cleopatra III of Egypt. She was born between 138 and 135 BC. She was the sister ofPtolemy IX, Ptolemy X, Cleopatra Selene I and Tryphaena. Cleopatra IV married her brotherPtolemy IX Lathyros when he was still a prince in c. 119/118 BC. Cleopatra IV may be the mother of Ptolemy XII Auletes and Ptolemy of Cyprus, although an unnamed concubine could be the mother of these two men as well.[1] In c. 115, BC Cleopatra III forced Cleopatra IV and Ptolemy IX to divorce. She replaced Cleopatra IV with her sister Cleopatra Selene I.[3] Cleopatra IV fled Egypt and went toCyprus, where she married Antiochus IX Cyzicenus and brought him the army ofAntiochus VIII Grypus, which she had convinced to follow her. Antiochus Cyzicenus was the half brother of Antiochus Grypus, the Seleucid king of Syria. Antiochus Grypus fought Antiochus Cyzicenus and eventually chased him to Antioch. Grypus was married to Cleopatra IVs sister Tryphaena. Tryphaena decided that Cleopatra IV should die and over the protests of her husband summoned some soldiers and had Cleopatra IV murdered in the sanctuary of Daphne in Antioch [2][4] In his comprehensive website about Ptolemaic genealogy, Christopher Bennett also notes the possibility that Cleopatra IV from her brief marriage to Antiochus IX Cyzicenus may have been the mother of the later Seleucid monarch Antiochus X Eusebes (the Pious),[5] who would go on to marry Cleopatra IVs younger sister, Cleopatra Selene, thus making him the spouse of a woman who was both his stepmother (Selene married both of her sisters widowers, Grypus and Cyzicenus, before marrying Eusebes) and his maternal aunt.
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