the former wife of his half-brother Herod Philip. Herodias persuaded her daughter (unnamed in the gospel but traditionally called Salome) to ask her step-father and uncle Herod to give her the head of ...
Spouse Cypros, daughter of Phasael II, son of Phasael I (brother of Herod the Great) Agrippa thus descends from both the Hasmonean and Herodian dynasties, but his father's death sentence for treason ...
Lysanias: mentioned by St. Luke in one of his chronological passages, ch. (Luke 3:1) as being tetrarch. of Abilene (i.e. the district round Abila) in the thirteenth year of Tiberius (A.D. 26), at the ...