Alexander son of Herod by Mariamne I of Judea

• Preferred Name: Alexander son of Herod by Mariamne I of Judea^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Burial: ABT JAN 2 BC in Alexandrium, Judea at LATI: N37.7 LONG: E76.1833 with note: Burial place mentioned in: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/128730749?cid=mem_copy Lat/Long of burial location: 32.095595° 35.462595°
  
• Alexander+and+Aristobulus+were+framed+by+their+older+half-brother+Antipater.++: BET 3 BC AND 2 BC in Sebaste, Samaria, Roman Empire at LATI: N2.2764 LONG: E5.195 with note: Description: They have been kept in chains, now, for a whole year. “Herod married Mariamme I in 37BC; Herod died 4/5BC” Kokkinos Facts: Herod died 14 Jan 1AD. Anitpater 5 days before on 9 Jan 1AD. Augustus Ceasar reports that Anitpater died 2 years after the other 2 sons. See link. https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/129495116?cid=mem_copy 9 Jan 1AD -2 years = 9 Jan 2BC or 3/2BC give and take. The governor sends word to Herod with a time and a placer their trial: November, in Lebanon. They will meet half-way, at the city of Berytus (modern Beirut). n Berytus, Saturninus was in charge of the trial. Herod prosecuted the case. And, basically, nobody ever really defended the two sons. In fact, Alexander and Aristobulus were not even allowed to attend! Herod argued vigorously against his two sons. Saturninus thought they were guilty, but shouldn't be killed. Volumnius, the military commander under the Governor, argued for harsh penalties, and others agreed. The group made no official decision because Herod was free to do whatever he wanted to do, anyway! Caesar never said otherwise - he just said, 'have a trial'. So Herod left Berytus and went to Caesarea-by-the-Sea, his political capital, where the princes were being kept. Herod's men took Alexander and Aristobulus to the city of Sebaste, in Samaria. Herod ordered his men to strangle his sons there, in Sebaste. Alexander was about 31 years old, and Aristobulus was 29. http://www.billheroman.com/search?q=virgin+mary
  
• Caste: Judean Prince of Jewish, Nabataean and Edomite descent
  
• Death: ABT JAN 2 BC in Sabaste, Samaria, Roman Empire at LATI: N2.2764 LONG: E5.195 with note: Wikipedia is wrong. Herod died 14 Jan 1AD, Anitpater 5 days prior on 9 Jan 1AD. Augustus Ceaser mentions Anitpater died 2 years after the 2 other sons were executed. See link: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/129495116?cid=mem_copy 9 Jan 1AD - 2years = 9 Jan 2BC or 3/2BC give/take.
  
• FSID: LV78-STY
  
• Clan Name: with note: Description: House of Herod - Herodians
  
• Birth: ABT 31 BC in Judaea, Roman Republic at LATI: N1.75 LONG: E5 with note: Mariamne's marriage took place just before the fall of Jerusalem in fall 33BC. Thus, also, all five children were born after 33BC. Mother wedding 33 BC older sister born 32 BC Alexander born 31 BC
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  
  “Mariamme I was then only a little girl. Herod was bethrothed to her in 42 BC when she would have been about 12 Josephus, wAS 1.241;Ant 14.300) and he married her in 37BCE at about 17 (Was 1.344;Ant 14,467)”
  
  “Herod married Mariamme I in 37BC; Herod died 4/5BC” Kokkinos
  
  Wikipedia (updated version 15 May 2022)
  
  Alexander, son of Herod was born about 35 BC; died about 7 BC. His mother was the Hasmonean princess Mariamne.
  
  The unfortunate fate which persistently pursued the Hasmonean house overtook this prince also. As heir presumptive to the throne by right of descent on his mother's side, he was sent to Rome for his education in the year 23 BC. He remained there in the household of Asinius Pollio until about the year 17 BC, when Herod himself brought him and his younger brother Aristobulus, who had been with him, home to Jerusalem. Shortly afterward Alexander received in marriage the Cappadocian Princess Glaphyra, the daughter of King Archelaus of Cappadocia. Glaphyra bore Alexander three children, two sons: Tigranes, Alexander and an unnamed daughter.[not verified in body]
  
  Demise
  Alexander's handsome presence and frank bearing made him a favorite with the people, and they longed for the day when the house of the Maccabees should mount the throne instead of the half-Jew Herod. But, on the other hand, a certain degree of vanity and a spirit of vindictiveness, which marked him no less than his prepossessing qualities, rendered him extremely unpopular with the partisans of Herod, who had much to fear from a future King Alexander. Josephus was writing for a Roman audience, after a major rebellion and this may not genuine criticism. Salome repeatedly warned Herod of danger threatening him from Alexander and his brother Aristobulus. The king felt that it was not impossible that his sons meditated revenge for Mariamne's execution; and on the other hand, the open antipathy expressed by them against their father combined to open the king's ear to the calumnies of Salome and her fellow-plotters. Herod's attempt to humiliate Alexander by restoring to honor Antipater, an older son by another wife, resulted disastrously. Antipater's insidious plotting and the open enmity to Herod shown by Alexander widened the breach between father and son to such an extent that in the year 12 BC, Herod felt himself constrained to bring charges against his sons before Augustus. A reconciliation was brought about, but it was of short duration; and shortly afterward (about 10 BC) Alexander was thrown into prison upon the evidence of a tortured witness who accused him of planning the murder of Herod. Intercepted letters were produced which revealed Alexander's bitterness against his father. In vain did Archelaus, Alexander's father-in-law, endeavor to bring about better relations between them; the reconciliation was again a brief one, so that once more the intrigues of Antipater and Salome succeeded in securing the incarceration of Alexander and Aristobulus (about 8 BC).[citation needed] This was dynastic conflict, in the key territory bridging West and East and the context was instability erupting across the Roman Empire.
  
  Conviction
  Herod lodged formal complaint of high treason against them with Augustus, who put the matter into Herod's own hands, with the advice to appoint a court of inquiry to consist of Roman officials and his own friends. Such a court of hirelings and favorites was naturally unanimous for conviction. The attempts of Alexander's friends, by means of petition to King Herod, to avert the execution of the sentence, resulted in the death of Tero — an old and devoted servant of Herod who openly remonstrated with the king for the enormity of the proposed judicial crime — and of 300 others who were denounced as partisans of Alexander. The sentence was carried out without delay; about the year 7 BC, at Sebaste (Samaria) — where thirty years before Mariamne's wedding had been celebrated — her sons suffered death by the cord.

• m. ABT 13 BC in Judea, Roman Republic

1. King Alexander IV of Armenia , b. BEF 202 in Armenia     d. BEF 276 in Armenia

1. Title: The Herodian Dynasty: Origins, Role in Society and Eclipse by Nikos Kokkinos ISBN-13: 9781907427015 Publisher: Spink & Sons, Ltd 11/4/10 pages 530
   Author: This record can't be read to prove correctness. No link to where one can read it. Most of prevoius dates on Herod are off and wrong by 4 years. Herod died Sunday 14 Jan 1 AD.
   Note: This record can't be read to prove correctness. No link to where one can read it. Most of prevoius dates on Herod are off and wrong by 4 years. Herod died Sunday 14 Jan 1 AD.
   Page: https://lexundria.com/j_bj/1.534-1.551/wst 551He also sent his sons to Sebaste, a city not far from Caesarea, and ordered them to be there strangled; and as what he had ordered was executed immediately, so he commanded that their dead bodies should be brought to the fortress Alexandrium, to be buried with Alexander, their grandfather by the mother’s side. And this was the end of Alexander and Aristobulus. « J. BJ 1.513–1.533 | J. BJ 1.534–1.551 | J. BJ 1.552–1.566 | About This Work »
   
2. Title: Antiquities of the Jews by historian Flavius Josephus
   Author: Antiquities of the Jews (Latin: Antiquitates Iudaicae; Greek: Ἰουδαϊκὴ ἀρχαιολογία, Ioudaikē archaiologia) is a 20-volume historiographical work, written in Greek, by historian Flavius Josephus in the 13th year of the reign of Roman emperor Flavius Domitian which was around AD 93 or 94
   Note: Antiquities of the Jews (Latin: Antiquitates Iudaicae; Greek: Ἰουδαϊκὴ ἀρχαιολογία, Ioudaikē archaiologia) is a 20-volume historiographical work, written in Greek, by historian Flavius Josephus in the 13th year of the reign of Roman emperor Flavius Domitian which was around AD 93 or 94
   Page: https://lexundria.com/j_bj/1.534-1.551/wst
   
3. Title: wiki: Megillat Taanit
   Author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megillat_Taanit
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megillat_Taanit;
   Note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megillat_Taanit The 2 Shevat entry celebrates Herods death. When corrilated with other hard dates of that era, locks into a 14 Jan 1AD death of King Herod
   Page: This establishes Herod's death date from which other events are calculated.
   
4. Title: Augustus mentions 2 year span between execution of sons
   Author: https://www.loebclassics.com/view/macrobius-saturnalia/2011/pb_LCL510.349.xml?readMode=recto#:~:text=On%20hearing%20that%20the%20son,(dicta%2056%20Malc.).
   Publication: Name: https://www.loebclassics.com/view/macrobius-saturnalia/2011/pb_LCL510.349.xml?readMode=recto#:~:text=On%20hearing%20that%20the%20son,(dicta%2056%20Malc.).;
   Note: https://www.loebclassics.com/view/macrobius-saturnalia/2011/pb_LCL510.349.xml?readMode=recto#:~:text=On%20hearing%20that%20the%20son,(dicta%2056%20Malc.).
   Page: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Macrobius/Saturnalia/2*.html This establishes that one sons death followed the other two by 2 years. With the one's death known on 9 Jan 1AD, the others were executed about Jan 2BC