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Cleopatra VI Tryphaena
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Cleopatra VI
Tryphaena (c.95- after 55): queen of the Ptolemaic
Empire.
Relatives:
Main deeds:
- c.95
Born
- 80/79:
Marries to her brother Ptolemy
XII Auletes, who has unexpectedly become king
- 76:
Birth of Berenice
IV
- 69/68:
Cleopatra VI Tryphaena disappears from our records
- 58:
Ptolemy XII is expelled from Egypt; Cleopatra VI and her daughter
Berenice IV rule the country
- 57:
End of the co-rule; Berenice is sole ruler of Egypt
- Cleopatra
may have tried to speed up her husband's return
- 56/55:
The Roman governor
in Syria, Aulus Gabinius, bribed by Ptolemy XII, agrees to support
Ptolemy, who is in Alexandria
in March 55; a
Roman military unit supports the king. Berenice is executed in July.
- Cleopatra
VI again disappears from our sources; she must have died before her
husband, who was succeeded in 51 by Cleopatra
VII.
Information on the
web: Ptolemaic
Genealogy (Chris Bennett) |
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