Cleopatra Selene of Syria

Born around 130 BC to Ptolemy VIII and Cleopatra III, Cleopatra Selene spent her early years as a chess piece in her mother's power games. In 115 BC, Cleopatra III forced one son to divorce and installed Selene as the new queen consort; when that brother was expelled, she likely married the replacement brother too. By 102 BC her mother shipped her north to Syria as a diplomatic bride for Antiochus VIII. When he was assassinated in 96 BC, she married his brother and rival Antiochus IX; when he died in 95 BC, she married Antiochus IX's son Antiochus X, who vanished from record around 92 BC. She went into hiding with her children as Syria fractured, then reemerged around 82 BC and declared her young son Antiochus XIII king with herself as co-ruler. But the war-exhausted Syrians invited foreign monarchs instead: Tigranes II of Armenia took the capital, and in 69 BC he besieged Selene in the coastal town of Ptolemais, captured her, and executed her.