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• Name: Alexander III The Great King Of Macedonia
• Sex: M
• Birth: 356 BC ^b
• Death: 323 BC ^d


Parents:

• Father:
  
• Philip II King Of Macedonia Death: 336 BC
Mother:

• Olympias Death: 315 BC

Family:
Children:

1. (Unk Dau)

Marriage:

• Kleophis Queen Of Assacene .^m2
  
• Kleophis Queen Of Assacene

Children:

1. Alexandros Of Penjab

Marriage:

• Roxane .^m3
  
• Roxane Death: Abt 310 BC

Children:

1. (Unk Son) Death: After 326 BC

Marriage:

• (Unk Dau) Of Paropamisdae .^m4
  
• (Unk Dau) Of Paropamisdae

Children:

1. Sophyles

Marriage:

• Stateira on 324 BC .^m5
  
• Stateira Death: 323 BC

Children:

1. Alexander IV King Of Macedonia Birth: 323 BC Death: 310 BC

Marriage:

• Parysatis on 324 BC .^m6
  
• Parysatis

Marriage:

• Barsine on Abt 333 BC .^m7
  
• Barsine Birth: Abt 360 BC

Children:

1. Herekles Birth: Abt 327 BC Death: 309 BC

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: Wagner PedigreeProgress #7],

parents:

[Ref: Dodson Egypt p260, Settipani LGA p107, Wagner PedigreeProgress #9],

father:

[Ref: Settipani LGA p102, Wagner PedigreeProgress #7]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: Settipani LGA p102, Settipani LGA p107, Wagner PedigreeProgress #7]

Sources with Information about marriage to unknown

child:

[Ref: Settipani LGA p137]

Sources with Information about marriage to Kleophis Queen Of Assacene

date:

mistress [Ref: Settipani LGA p132],

child:

[Ref: Settipani LGA p132]

Sources with Information about marriage to Roxane

names:

[Ref: Dodson Egypt p260]

Alexander & Roxane, mistress [Ref: Settipani LGA p132],

child:

[Ref: Settipani LGA p132]

Sources with Inaccurate marriage information

child:

Alexander IV King of Macedonia (#51973) [Ref: Dodson Egypt p260, Wagner PedigreeProgress #7]

Sources with Information about marriage to (Unk Dau) Of Paropamisdae

date:

mistress [Ref: Settipani LGA p132],

names:

Alexander III The Great & dau of Subhuti [Ref: Settipani LGA p132],

child:

[Ref: Settipani LGA p132]

Sources with Information about marriage to Stateira

date:

[Ref: Dodson Egypt p263],

names:

[Ref: Dodson Egypt p250, Dodson Egypt p260, Wagner PedigreeProgress #6, Wagner PedigreeProgress #7],

child:

[Ref: Settipani LGA p132]

Sources with Information about marriage to Parysatis

date:

[Ref: Dodson Egypt p263],

names:

[Ref: Dodson Egypt p250, Dodson Egypt p260]

Sources with Information about marriage to Barsine

date:

abt 333 BC [Ref: Dodson Egypt p263]

mistress [Ref: Settipani LGA p132, Settipani LGA p139]

third marriage of Barsine [Ref: Wagner PedigreeProgress #6],

names:

[Ref: Dodson Egypt p250],

child:

[Ref: Dodson Egypt p260, Settipani LGA p132, Wagner PedigreeProgress #6, Wagner PedigreeProgress #7]

Research Notes:
336-323 BC: King of Macedonia [Ref: Settipani LGA p102, Settipani LGA p107]
332-323 BC: King of Madeconia [Ref: Dodson Egypt p293]
King of Macedonia [Ref: Wagner PedigreeProgress #7]

Agathokles of Baktriane claimed to be descendant of Alexander. In his monies of c.168/7 have figures on reverse Alexander, Antiochos (II), Diodotos, Euthydemos, Demetrios. The last three being known kings of Baktriane, predecessors of Agathokles [Ref: Settipani LGA p133]

Mithridates VI Eupator (111-63) boasted after Justin to descend from Achemenides by his father and Seleucides as wellas of Alexander the Great by his mother. [Ref: Settipani LGA p134]

Honoratiane Polycarmis Phainarete, daughter of Honoratianos Polycharmos of Athens (beginning of 3rd century AD) said she was issue of Perikles, Konon, and Alexander the Great. She descends probably from Tiberios Claudios Leonides VII the Artemeisia daughter of Alexandros. This Alexandros mentioned without a demotique or patronym is certainly not Athenien; probably a descendant of Alexandros of Megapolis [Ref: Settipani LGA p134]

Basil I of Byzance descended by his father Alexander and of Philip of Macedonia, and by his mother Constantin the Great (if one believes the Vita Basilii written by his grandson Constantin VII). Last statement may be simply on account of the fact that Basil said himself issue of the Arsacides of Armenie, the through them the Seleucides of Syria. [Ref: Settipani LGA p135]

Princes of Badakshan in India, to the 13th century AD, boasted themselves descendants of Alexander and of the daughter of Dareios III that had married Baktra. That means they claimed to relate themselves to the Indo-Greek kings. [Ref: Settipani LGA p135]

by the end of the third century, a descent of Seleucides was interpreted as implying a direct descent of Alexander. Two explanations: (1) the ancestry is completely fictitious and rests on a spiritual relationship of Alexander towards his Seleukos successor, and it would be vain to look for a genealogical connection really between the two men, invented or not, and (2) a physical genealogy, invented or not, has been produced in the third century to link up the blood the Seleucides to the time of Alexander the Great. It is necessary to prefer the second. [Ref: Settipani LGA p135]

after Alexander's death, family bloodshed began immediately with Stateira's killing by Roxane. The latter became the mother of the king's posthumous son, Alexander IV, who joined his uncle, Philip III, as joint ruler of the empire. This arrangement was soon caught up in the rivalry betweenPhilip's wife, Eurydice, and Olympias. An attempt by the former to replace regent Polyperchon with Cassander resulted in Philip and Eurydice's capture and death at the hands of Olympias, thus leaving her grandson, Alexander IV, as sole king. However, shortly afterwards, Olympias was condemned to death at the bidding of Cassander, and Alexander and Roxane were taken into custody. They were killed by Cassander as Alexander approached adulthood, as was Heracles, Alexander III's other son. The direct Argaeid line was thus extinct. [Ref: Dodson Egypt p261]



Pedigree of Alexander III The Great King Of Macedonia
                                                                /-----Aeropos King Of Macedonia
                                                       /-----Alketas King Of Macedonia
                                              /-----Amyntas I King Of Macedonia
                                     /-----Alexander I King Of Macedonia
                            /-----Amyntas Prince Of Macedonia
                   /-----Arrhideios Prince Of Macedonia
          /-----Amyntas III King Of Macedonia
 /-----Philip II King Of Macedonia
|         \-----Eurydice
Alexander III The Great King Of Macedonia
|                                             /-----Ametos King Of Epire
|                                    /-----(Unk) King Of Epire
|                                   |        |                  /-----Menekleides Of Pharsalos
|                                   |        |         /-----Menon I Of Pharsalos
|                                   |        |        |         \-----(Unk Dau)
|                                   |         \-----Phthia
|                           /-----Tharrypas King Of Epire
|                  /-----Alkelos King Of Epire
|         /-----Neoptolemos King Of Epire
 \-----Olympias



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