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Malthace () was a Samaritan woman who lived in the latter half of the 1st century BC. She was one of the wives of Herod the Great and the mother by Herod of Herod Antipas, Archelaus, and a daughter, Olympias. She died in 4 BC at Rome, while her sons Archelaus and Antipas were disputing the will of their father before the emperor Augustus.

Key facts

Royalty.name
Malthace
Royalty.image
File:Malthace.png
Royalty.caption
Malthace, in the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle
Royalty.spouse
Herod the Great
Royalty.dynasty
Herodian dynasty
Royalty.issue
Herod Antipas Archelaus Olympias
Royalty.death_date
4 BCE

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Instance of
human
Gender
female
Place of birth
Samaria
Place of death
Rome
Image
Malthace.png
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date of death
0004-00-00
date of birth
0045-00-00
Commons category
Malthace
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Malthace () was a Samaritan woman who lived in the latter half of the 1st century BC. She was one of the wives of Herod the Great and the mother by Herod of Herod Antipas, Archelaus, and a daughter, Olympias. She died in 4 BC at Rome, while her sons Archelaus and Antipas were disputing the will of their father before the emperor Augustus.

==Notes==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Malthace” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.