Who is who on the family tree of Herod
| Portrait | Person | Years | Life | On the chart |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | Antipater the IdumaeanFather of Herod | Died 43 BC | Poisoned in a plot of Malichus. Sources1 | Find on the chart |
| C | CyprosMother of Herod | Not recorded | Of an eminent Arabian family. Sources1 | Find on the chart |
| P | PhasaelBrother of Herod | Not recorded | Eldest son of Antipater. Sources1 | Find on the chart |
| HG | Herod the GreatKing of Judaea | About 73 to 4 BC | Died at Jericho. | Find on the chart |
| SI | Salome ISister of Herod | Not recorded | Mother of Berenice. | Find on the chart |
| D | DorisFirst wife of Herod | Married about 47 BC | Mother of Antipater II. | Find on the chart |
 | Mariamne IHasmonean wife of Herod | Executed 29 or 28 BC | Tried and executed. | Find on the chart |
| MI | Mariamne IIDaughter of the high priest Simon | Not recorded | Mother of Herod II. | Find on the chart |
| M | MalthaceSamaritan wife of Herod | Not recorded | Mother of Archelaus and Antipas. Sources16 | Find on the chart |
| CJ | Cleopatra of JerusalemWife of Herod | Not recorded | Mother of Philip. Sources16 | Find on the chart |
| AI | Antipater IIEldest son of Herod | Executed 4 BC | Killed five days before his father died. Sources6 | Find on the chart |
| A | AlexanderSon of Mariamne I | Executed 7 BC | Strangled at Sebaste. Sources4 | Find on the chart |
| AI | Aristobulus IVSon of Mariamne I | Executed 7 BC | Father of Agrippa I and Herodias. | Find on the chart |
| B | BereniceDaughter of Salome I | Not recorded | Wife of Aristobulus IV. Sources16 | Find on the chart |
| HI | Herod IISon of Mariamne II | Not recorded | First husband of Herodias. | Find on the chart |
| A | ArchelausEthnarch of Judaea | About 21 BC to after AD 6 | Banished to Vienne. | Find on the chart |
 | Herod AntipasTetrarch of Galilee and Peraea | Before 20 BC to about AD 39 | Second husband of Herodias. | Find on the chart |
| PT | Philip the TetrarchTetrarch of Batanea and Trachonitis | Died AD 34 | Husband of Salome II. | Find on the chart |
| AI | Agrippa IKing of Judaea | About 10 BC to AD 44 | The Herod of Acts 12. | Find on the chart |
| HC | Herod of ChalcisKing of Chalcis | Died AD 48 | Second husband of Bernice. Sources12 | Find on the chart |
 | HerodiasGranddaughter of Herod | Exiled with Antipas, AD 39 | Wife of Herod II, then of Antipas. | Find on the chart |
 | Salome IIDaughter of Herodias | Not recorded | The dancer of the Gospels. | Find on the chart |
 | Agrippa IILast king of the dynasty | AD 27 or 28 to about 100 | Heard Paul at Caesarea. | Find on the chart |
 | BerniceDaughter of Agrippa I | Born AD 28 | Sister of Agrippa II. | Find on the chart |
| D | DrusillaDaughter of Agrippa I | Born about AD 38 | Wife of the governor Felix. | Find on the chart |
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Sources
Every source of the family tree of Herod was read on 10 November 2026, Josephus in Whiston’s translation. Britannica refused to be read.
Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, tr. William Whiston, Project Gutenberg
Josephus, The Wars of the Jews, tr. William Whiston, Project Gutenberg
Bible Gateway, King James Version
Portrait credits
Each name leads to the file on Wikimedia Commons. The portraits in the article are in the public domain or under CC0.
- Mariamne I, John William Waterhouse, 1887.
- Herodias, Paul Delaroche, 1843.
- Salome II, Titian, about 1550.
- Herod Antipas, Duccio di Buoninsegna, 1308-1311.
- Agrippa II, Hendrick Bloemaert, 1635.
- Bernice, Hendrick Bloemaert, 1635.
- The Herodium, the hill fortress of Herod the Great near Bethlehem, photographed from the air in 2005, Asaf T., 15 March 2005.
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