Berenice III of Egypt

Queen of Egypt · Historical Figures · Born 120 BC

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She held the throne of Egypt three times across two decades - first beside an uncle she married, then her own father, then alone. In 80 BC, after barely six months as sole ruler, she was gone.

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Fig. 77. Cleopatre (Cleopatra I). Fig. 78. Cleopatra-Coccia (Cleopatra II). Fig. 79. Tolomeo-Sotere II. Fig. 80. Tolomeo-Alessandro II. Fig. 81. Berenice o Cleopatra. Fig. 82. Cleopatra (NYPL b14291206-425722)

NYPL b14291206-425722 Ptolemy XI Alexander II (Fig. 80.)

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Berenice III came to power in 101 BC as co-ruler with Ptolemy X Alexander I, her uncle and husband, a arrangement that lasted until 88 BC. Thirteen years later she returned to share the throne with her father, Ptolemy IX Soter, in 81 BC. When he died that same year she became Egypt's sole monarch - the first time she ruled without a man beside her. Her lone reign lasted six months before ending in 80 BC, closing one of the Ptolemaic dynasty's stranger chapters of rotating kinship and crowns.