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Philip the Tetrarch
Sign in to saveson of Herod the Great and ruler of the northeast part of his father's kingdom (r. 4 BCE-34 CE)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Spouse
- Salome
- Father
- Herod the Great
- Mother
- Cleopatra of Jerusalem
- Sibling
- Herod Antipas
- Occupation
- sovereign
- Position held
- tetrarch
- Languages spoken
- Koine Greek
- Family
- Herodian dynasty
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- date of birth
- 0020-00-00
- date of death
- 0034-01-01
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Herod Philip II
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Encyclopedic overview
Tiberius featured on a coin struck by Philip the Tetrarch Philip received the tetrarchy of Iturea, Trachonitis, Gaulanitis, Batanea, and Auranitis following the death of his father.
Philip the Tetrarch (c. 26 BCE – 34 CE), was the son of Herod the Great and his fifth wife, Cleopatra of Jerusalem. As a tetrarch, i.e. ruler over one of the four unequal parts into which his father's kingdom was divided, namely the northeastern one, he maintained his rule from Herod's death in 4 BCE until his own in 34 CE. This arrangement is known as the Herodian tetrarchy, all four heirs remaining client rulers of Rome, like Herod himself. The other three were his half-brothers Herod Antipas and Herod Archelaus, and his aunt Salome I. He is not the same person as Herod the Younger, whom some writers call Herod Philip I. To distinguish the two, he is called Herod Philip II by some writers (see "Naming convention").
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Philip the Tetrarch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.