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Name: Xerxes King Of Persia, Pharaoh Of Egypt
Sex: M
Birth: 521 BC ^b
Death: 465 BC ^d

Parents:

Father:
Dareios I King Of Persia, Pharaoh Of Egypt Birth: 550 BC Death: 486 BC

Mother:

Atossa Birth: Abt 545 BC Death: After 480 BC

Family:
Marriage:

Amestris .^m1
Amestris Birth: 505 BC Death: Abt 425 BC

Children:

Artaxerxes I King Of Persia, Pharaoh Of Egypt Death: 425 BC
Darius
Hystapes

Bibliography

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]*].
Settipani, Christian, Nos Ancetres de L'Antiquite, Etudes des possibilites de liens genealogiques entre les familles de l'Antiquite. Paris: Editions Christian, 1991. NYPL #ARB-93-7430. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Settipani LGA p[0-9]*].
Wagner, Anthony, Pedigree and Progress, Essays in the Genealogical Interpretation of History, London, Philmore, 1975. Rutgers Alex CS4.W33. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Wagner PedigreeProgress #[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:: [Ref: Settipani LGA p144]; 521/0 BC [Ref: Wagner PedigreeProgress #5]; eldest son by wife Atossa [Ref: Dodson Egypt p253],
parents:: [Ref: Dodson Egypt p250, Settipani LGA p144, Wagner PedigreeProgress #5]

Sources for death Information

date:: [Ref: Dodson Egypt p292, Settipani LGA p97, Wagner PedigreeProgress #5]

Sources with Information about marriage to Amestris

names:: [Ref: Settipani LGA p144, Wagner PedigreeProgress #5],
child:: [Ref: Dodson Egypt p250, Settipani LGA p141, Wagner PedigreeProgress #6]

Research Notes:
486-465 BC: King of Persia [Ref: Settipani LGA p144, Settipani LGA p97]
485-465 BC: King of Persia [Ref: Wagner PedigreeProgress #5]
486-465 BC: Pharaoh of Egypt [Ref: Dodson Egypt p292]

murdered, along with his heir Darius, leaving a younger son, Artaxerxes I, to succeed him [Ref: Dodson Egypt p253]

Pedigree of Xerxes King Of Persia, Pharaoh Of Egypt
                                                                /-----Achaimenes
                                                       /-----Teispes King Of Persia
                                              /-----Kyros I King Of Persia
                                     /-----Teispes King Of Persia
                            /-----Ariaramnes King Of Persia
                   /-----Arsames King Of Persia
          /-----Hystaspes Satrape Of Persia
/-----Dareios I King Of Persia, Pharaoh Of Egypt
|        |         /-----Gobryas Governor Of Babylon
|         \-----Rhodogoune
Xerxes King Of Persia, Pharaoh Of Egypt
|                                                               /-----Achaimenes
|                                                      /-----Teispes King Of Persia
|                                             /-----Kyros I King Of Persia
|                                    /-----Teispes King Of Persia
|                           /-----Kyros II King Of Persia
|                  /-----Kambyses I King Of Persia
|         /-----Kyros III The Great King Of Persia
|        |        |                                             /-----Phraortes Prince Of Medie
|        |        |                                    /-----Deiokes King Of Medie
|        |        |                           /-----Phraortes I King Of Medie
|        |        |                  /-----Kyaxares I King Of Medie
|        |        |         /-----Astyages King Of Medie
|        |         \-----Mandane
\-----Atossa

Descendants of Xerxes King Of Persia, Pharaoh Of Egypt

1. Xerxes King Of Persia, Pharaoh Of Egypt m. Amestris

m. Amestris father: Otanes

2+ Artaxerxes I King Of Persia, Pharaoh Of Egypt m1. m2. Damaspia m3. Kosmartidena m4. Andia

3 Darius

4 Hystapes

2nd generation

2. Artaxerxes I King Of Persia, Pharaoh Of Egypt m1. m2. Damaspia m3. Kosmartidena m4. Andia

5 Segdianus

m. Damaspia

6 Xerxes II King Of Persia

m. Kosmartidena mother: Andia

7+ Dareios II Ochos King Of Persia m. Parysatis