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Family:
Children:
  1. (Unk Dau)

Marriage:
Bibliography
  1. Bennett, Chris, Egyptian Royal Genealogy - Ptolemaic Dynasty, 2005. Available at http://www.geocities.com/christopherjbennett/ptolemies/ptolemaic_contents.htm, visited 5/12/2005. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies .*].
  2. Dodson, Aiden, and Dylan Hilton, Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, London: Thames & Hudson, 2004. MCL 932 Dod. Available at http://archive.org/details/AidanDodsonTheCompleteRoyalFamiliesOfAncientEgypt Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Dodson Egypt p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
319/318 BC [Ref: Dodson Egypt p280]
319/318 or a lattle later [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Ceraunus],
parents:
[Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Genealogy-full, Dodson Egypt p266]
Sources for death Information
date:
279 BC [Ref: Dodson Egypt p280]
abt Jan/Feb 279 BC [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Ceraunus]
Sources with Information about marriage to unknown
child:
[Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Ceraunus, Bennett Ptolemies Genealogy-full, Dodson Egypt p266]
Sources with Information about marriage to Arsinoe
date:
281/280 BC [Ref: Dodson Egypt p275]
second marriage of both [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Genealogy-full]
winter 281/280, as second marriage of both [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Ceraunus],
place:
[Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Ceraunus, Dodson Egypt p275],
names:
[Ref: Dodson Egypt p266]
Research Notes:
King of Macedonia [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Ceraunus, Dodson Egypt p280]

abt 300/295 BC: uncertain marriage or liaison, to unknown woman (possibly a daughter of Lysimachus, king of Thrace), by whom there was one daughter [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Ceraunus]

abt 287/285: passed over as heir to the throne of Egypt; fled first to the court of Lysimachus, King of Thrace and Macadonia [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Ceraunus]

left Egypt after the selection of Ptolemy II as heir to the throne [Ref: Dodson Egypt p280]

abt 282/283 BC: fled to the court of Seleucus I, who he murdered at Lysimicheia while enroute to macedonia [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Ceraunus]

282/283 BC: killed Seleucus I [Ref: Dodson Egypt p280]

Sep 281 BC: became King of Macedonia [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Ceraunus, Dodson Egypt p280]

wounded and captured in battle against invading Gauls, then beheaded by them in 279 BC [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Ceraunus, Dodson Egypt p280]

succeeded by his brother Meleager [Ref: Bennett Ptolemies Ceraunus]



Pedigree of Ptolemy Ceraunus King Of Macedonia
          /-----Lagus
 /-----Ptolemy I Soter King Of Egypt
|        |                                                      /-----Alketas King Of Macedonia
|        |                                             /-----Amyntas I King Of Macedonia
|        |                                    /-----Alexander I King Of Macedonia
|        |                           /-----Amyntas Prince Of Macedonia
|        |                  /-----Balekros Prince Of Macedonia
|        |         /-----Maleagros
|         \-----Arsinoe
Ptolemy Ceraunus King Of Macedonia
|                  /-----Iolaos Prince Of Macedonia
|         /-----Antipater Regent Of Macedonia
 \-----Eurydice



Descendants of Ptolemy Ceraunus King Of Macedonia
1. Ptolemy Ceraunus King Of Macedonia m1. m2. Arsinoe
m. Arsinoe father: Ptolemy I Soter King Of Egypt mother: Berenike