Berenice bint Magas of Eordaea I

• Preferred Name: Berenice bint Magas of Eordaea I^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• FSID: MLW8-XYQ
  
• Marriage+to+Berenice,+cousin+of+Eurydice: with note: Description: Ptolemy married once more to Berenice, Eurydice's cousin, who had come to Egypt as Eurydice's lady-in-waiting with the children from her first marriage to Philip. Their children were Arsinoe II, Philotera, and Ptolemy II. Their eldest child Arsinoe married Lysimachus, then her half-brother Ptolemy Keraunos, and finally her full brother Ptolemy II.[18][23]
  
• Death: BET 279 BC AND 268 BC in Egypt at LATI: N7 LONG: E0
  
• Birth: 340 BC in Macedonia, Greece at LATI: N1 LONG: E3
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Queen of Egypt with note: Wikiwand: Berenice I of Egypt
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Berenice I (340 BC – from 279 to 268 BC) was Queen of Egypt by marriage to Ptolemy I Soter. She became the second queen, after Eurydice, of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt.
  
  Family
  Berenice was originally from Eordaea. She was the daughter of princess Antigone of Macedon, and an obscure local, a Greek Macedonian nobleman called Magas. Her maternal grandfather was a nobleman called Cassander who was the brother of Antipater, the regent for Alexander's empire, and through her mother was a relation to his family.
  
  First marriage
  In 325 BC, Berenice married an obscure local nobleman and military officer called Philip. Philip was previously married and had other children.
  Through her first marriage, she became the mother of King Magas of Cyrene, Antigone, who married King Pyrrhus of Epirus; and a daughter called Theoxena.
  Magas dedicated an inscription to himself and his father, when he served as a priest of Apollo. Pyrrhus gave her name to a new city called Berenicis.
  Philip died around 318 BC.
  
  Queen of Egypt
  After the death of her first husband, Berenice travelled to Egypt with her children as a lady-in-waiting for her mother's first cousin Eurydice who was the wife of Ptolemy I. Ptolemy I was one of the generals of King Alexander the Great and founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Ancient Egypt.
  Berenice became involved in a relationship with Ptolemy I, who married her in 317 BC. Berenice became the mother of Arsinoe II, Philotera, and a son, Ptolemy II Philadelphus.
  Her son Ptolemy II was recognized as his father's heir in preference to Eurydice's children to Ptolemy I.
  During his reign, Ptolemy II built a port on the Red Sea and named it Berenice after his mother.
  
  After she died, Ptolemy II and later Ptolemy IV Philopator decreed divine honors to her (Theocritus, Idylls xv. and xvii.).
  
  Issue
  With her first spouse Philip, she became the mother of:
  . King Magas of Cyrene
  . Antigone, who married King Pyrrhus of Epirus
  . Theoxena
  
  With her second spouse Ptolemy I, she became the mother of:
  . Arsinoe II, who married first Lysimachus, then her half-brother Ptolemy Keraunos and finally her full brother Ptolemy II.
  . Philotera c.312-c.275 BC, deified.
  . Ptolemy II Philadelphus, Pharaoh of Egypt.

• m. ABT 325 BC

1. Magas of Cyrene, King of Cyrenaica I, b. BEF 317 BC in Macedonia     d. ABT 250 BC in Cyrene, Al Bayḑā', Libya

1. Arsinoe Philadelphos Queen of Thrace and Egypt II, b. 316 BC in Memphis, Egypt     d. 270 BC in Egypt
2. Philadelphus II Ptolemy of Egypt, b. ABT 282 BC in Egypt     d. BEF 29 JAN 246

1. Title: Wikiwand: Berenice I of Egypt
   Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Berenice_I_of_Egypt;
   
2. Title: Wikiwand: Antigone of Macedon
   Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Antigone_of_Macedon;