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MARIAMNE - MARY MAGADELENA I OF PETRA
In 43 BC, following the chaos caused by Antipater offering financial support to Caesar's
murderers, Antipater was poisoned. Herod, backed by the Roman Army, executed his father's murderer. Afterwards, Antigonus, Hyrcanus' nephew, tried to take the throne from his uncle. Herod defeated him and then married
his teenage niece, Mariamne (known as Mariamne I), which helped to secure him a claim to the throne and
gain some Jewish favor. However, Herod already had a wife, Doris, and a three-year-old son, Antipater, and chose to banish Doris and her child.
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