Arsinoe Philadelphos Queen of Thrace and Egypt II

• Preferred Name: Arsinoe Philadelphos Queen of Thrace and Egypt II^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of Upper and Lower Egypt
  
• won+3+chariot+races+at+the+Olympic+Games: 272 BC
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Queen of Egypt
  
• Residence: BET 310 BC AND 299 BC in Alexandria, Egypt at LATI: N1 LONG: E9.75
  
• Death: 270 BC in Egypt at LATI: N7 LONG: E0
  
• MilitaryService: escaped her husband Ptolemy Ceraunus and sought refuge in the Samothrace temple complex280 BC in Island of Samothrace, Thrace, Turkey at LATI: N1.3333 LONG: E6.75
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Co-ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom - by marriage to her brother, Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus.
  
• Birth: 316 BC in Memphis, Egypt at LATI: N7 LONG: E0
  
• FSID: 9S2D-ZP5
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Queen of Thrace, Anatolia, and Macedonia - by marriage to King Lysimachus
  
• MilitaryService: She had Lysimachus' first son, Agathocles, poisoned on account of treason - so her sons would inherit the throne284 BC
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Arsinoë II (Koinē Greek: Ἀρσινόη, 316 BC – unknown date between July 270 and 260 BC) was a Ptolemaic queen and co-regent of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of ancient Egypt. She was given the Egyptian title "King of Upper and Lower Egypt", making her pharaoh as well.
  Arsinoe was Queen of Thrace, Anatolia, and Macedonia by marriage to King Lysimachus. She became co-ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom upon her marriage to her brother, Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus.
  Arsinoë was the first daughter of Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter, founder of the Hellenistic state of Egypt, and his second wife Berenice I of Egypt.
  
  She was maybe born in Memphis, but was raised in the new city of Alexandria, where her father moved his capital. Nothing is known of her childhood or education, but judging from her later life as patron of scholars and noted for her learning, she is estimated to have been given a high education.Her brothers were tutored by intellectuals hired by their fathers, and it is regarded likely that she attended these lessons as well: she corresponded with the intellectual Strato of Lampsacus later in life, and he may have previously been her tutor.
  
  Arsinoe married Lysimachus of Thrace in 300 or 299 BC and had three children:
  Name ... Birth ... Death ... Notes
  1. Ptolemy ... 298 BC ... February 240 BC ... Co-regent of Egypt with Arsinoë II younger brother, Ptolemy II (267-259 BC), rebelled in 259 BC, subsequently Ptolemaic vassal ruler of Telmessus until 240 BC.
  2. Lysimachus ... 296 BC ... 279 BC - Murdered by Ptolemy Keraunos.
  3. Philip ... 294 BC ... 279 BC - Murdered by Ptolemy Keraunos.
  
  After Lysimachus' death in 281 BC, Arsinoe was briefly married to her half-brother Ptolemy Ceraunus from 280 to 279 BC and then to her full-blooded, younger brother Ptolemy II of Egypt from the late 270s BC until her death. Ptolemy II's children by his first wife Arsinoe I, including his eventual successor Ptolemy III were posthumously declared to be children of Arsinoe II in the late 260s BC.
  
  Queen of Lysimachus
  At about age 15, Arsinoë married King Lysimachus, who was then around 60 years old. Together, the pair had three sons: Ptolemy Epigonos, Lysimachus] and Philip.
  In order to position her sons for the throne, she had Lysimachus' first son, Agathocles, poisoned on account of treason.
  Arsinoe reportedly paid for a rotunda in the Samothrace temple complex, where she was likely an initiate.
  
  Queen of Ptolemy Keraunos
  In 281 BC, Lysimachus died in battle and Arsinoë fled to Cassandreia (Κασσάνδρεια). There, she married her paternal half-brother Ptolemy Keraunos. Ptolemy Keraunos was a son of Ptolemy I Soter and his first wife, Eurydice of Egypt. The marriage was for political reasons: both claimed the throne of Macedonia and Thrace (by the time of his death Lysimachus was ruler of both regions, and his power extended to southern Greece and Anatolia). Their relationship was never good.
  As Ptolemy Keraunos was becoming more powerful, Arsinoë decided it was time to stop him and conspired against him with her sons. This action caused Ptolemy Keraunus to kill two of her sons, Lysimachus and Philip, while the eldest, Ptolemy, was able to escape and to flee north, to the kingdom of the Dardanians.
  Arsinoë sought refuge in the Samothrace temple complex, which she had benefited during her tenure as queen. She eventually left from Samothrace for Alexandria, Egypt, to seek protection from her brother, Ptolemy II Philadelphus.
  It is not known which year she left for Egypt. She may have left as early as 280, directly after the murder of the younger sons, or as late as 276, when the claim of her eldest son to the Macedonian throne had clearly failed, following the succession of Antigonus II Gonatas.
  
  Queen of Egypt
  In Egypt, she is believed to have instigated the accusation and exile of Arsinoe I, the wife of her younger brother Ptolemy II. Whether this belief was correct remains unknown. It is not known which year she arrived in Egypt, nor when her sister-in-law was exiled, nor whether the divorce between her brother and Arsinoe I may have taken place without the involvement of Arsinoe II.
  
  Whatever the case, after the divorce of Ptolemy, Arsinoe II then married her brother. As a result, both were given the epithet "Philadelphoi" (Koinē Greek: Φιλάδελφοι "Sibling-lovers"). The closer circumstances and reasons behind the marriage is not known.
  
  Her role as queen was unprecedented in the dynasty at the time and became a role model for later Ptolemaic queens: she acted alongside her brother in ritual and public display, became a religious and literal patron, and was included in the Egyptian and Greek cults created for them by her brother. Sharing in all of her brother's titles, she was quite influential, having towns dedicated to her, her own cult (as was Egyptian custom), appearing on coinage, and contributing to foreign policy, including Ptolemy II's victory in the First Syrian War between Egypt and the Seleucid Empire.
  
  According to Posidippus, she won three chariot races at the Olympic Games, probably in 272 BC.

1. Ptolemy Euergates III, b. BEF 258 BC in Alexandria, Al Iskandariyah, Egypt     d. BEF 281 in Alexandria, Al Iskandariyah, Egypt

• m. ABT 280 BC

• m. ABT 299 BC

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