Alexandra 'Esther' bint John Hyrcanus II II

• Preferred Name: Alexandra 'Esther' bint John Hyrcanus II II^[1]
  
• Gender: F
  
• FSID: LBQB-XCF
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Queen of Arimethea
  
• Birth: ABT 80 BC
  
• MilitaryService: Killed by King Herod The Great28 BC in Jerusalem, Judea, Roman Empire at LATI: N1.75 LONG: E5
  
• Death: 28 BC in Jerusalem, Judea, Roman Empire at LATI: N1.75 LONG: E5
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: last Maccabee Queen
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Alexandra the Maccabee (died ca. 28 BC) was the daughter of Hyrcanus II (died 30 BC), who was the son of Alexander Jannaeus. She married her cousin Alexander of Judaea (died 48 BC), who was the son of Aristobulus II. Their grandfather was Alexander Jannaeus, the second eldest son of John Hyrcanus. Their daughter was the Hasmonean Mariamne and son was Aristobulus III. Alexandra opposed her son-in-law Herod, and when he became sick with grief after having Mariamne executed, Alexandra tried to seize power, but was unsuccessful and was herself executed.
  
  === The highly speculative marriages of Alexandra.... ===
  Though the evidence is only circumstantial, it is suggested by David Hughes and other genealogist that the wife of Mattan ben Levi, called Esther of Jerusalem, was actually the Jewish name of the last Maccabee Queen, whose later Greek regnal name was Queen Alexandra II. Before Alexandra became a Maccabee Queen with her 2nd marriage to Maccabee King Alexander II, her cousin, and later her 3rd marriage to Maccabee King Antigonus, also her cousin, she was married to a Nasi and Prince of Israel, called Mattathias. Was this Mattathias also the person as Mattan ben Levi, the father of Heli, the grandfather of Mary, and the great grandfather of Yehoshua (Jesus)? The evidence suggests the affirmative.
  
  The name of the children of this union between Mattathias, the Nasi and Prince of Israel and Princess Alexandra II, prior to 49 BCE was Prince Alexander III Helios (the Biblical Heli) and his sister, Princess Alexandra III. This young Davidian and Maccabee princess later became the wife of Ptolemy Bar Mennius, a Babylonian Exilarch whose descendants are traced to Europe today.
  
  We ask again, was this Davidian Nasi Prince Mattan ben Levi, the same Nasi as Prince Mattathias, who married the Maccabee Princess, and future Maccabee Queen, as the daughter of the Maccabee Priest-King Hyrcanus II and through this union had a son called Prince Alexander III “Helios”?
  
  http://www.biblesearchers.com/yahshua/davidian/dynasty2.shtml#RachelArimathea

• m. 3rd husband

1. Grapte bint Antigonus Matthias II II,    

1. Mariamne bat Alexander 2nd wife Herod I, b. 57 BC in Judea, Roman Empire     d. 29 BC in Judea, Roman Empire

1. Title: Wikipedia - Alexandra
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   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_the_Maccabee;
   Note: Alexandra the Maccabee from Nuremberg Chronicle, published in 1493 Alexandra the Maccabee (died ca. 28 BC) was the daughter of Hyrcanus II (died 30 BC), who was the son of Alexander Jannaeus.[1][2] She married her cousin[3] Alexander of Judaea (died 48 BC), who was the son of Aristobulus II. Their grandfather was Alexander Jannaeus, the second eldest son of John Hyrcanus.[4] Their daughter was the Hasmonean Mariamne and son was Aristobulus III. Alexandra opposed her son-in-law Herod, and when he became sick with grief after having Mariamne executed, Alexandra tried to seize power, but was unsuccessful and was herself executed.