Antiochus III The Great - Family

Family

In 222 BC, Antiochus III married Princess Laodice of Pontus, a daughter of King Mithridates II of Pontus and Princess Laodice of the Seleucid Empire. The couple were first cousins through their mutual grandfather, Antiochus II Theos. Antiochus and Laodice had eight children (three sons and five daughters):

  • Antiochus (221 - 193 BC), Antiochus III's first heir apparent and joint-king with his father from 210 - 193 BC
  • Seleucus IV Philopator (c. 220 - 175 BC), Antiochus III's successor
  • Ardys
  • unnamed daughter, betrothed in about 206 BC to Demetrius I of Bactria
  • Laodice IV, married all three of her brothers in succession and became Queen of the Seleucid Empire through her second and third marriages
  • Cleopatra I Syra (c. 204 - 176 BC), married in 193 BC Ptolemy V Epiphanes of Egypt
  • Antiochis, married in 194 BC King Ariarathes IV of Cappadocia
  • Mithridates (215 - 164 BC), succeeded his brother Seleucus IV Philopator in 175 BC under the regnal name Antiochus IV Epiphanes

Laodice III died in about 191 BC. Later that year, Antiochus III remarried to Euboea of Chalcis. They had no children.

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