First marriage Her father King
Herod Agrippa had betrothed her to
Gaius Julius Archelaus Antiochus Epiphanes, first son of King
Antiochus IV of Commagene, with a stipulation from Agrippa that Epiphanes should embrace the Jewish religion, but the marriage had not been contracted on her father's sudden death in 44. According to
Josephus, on Agrippa's death the populace "cast such reproaches upon the deceased as are not fit to be spoken of; and so many of them as were then soldiers, which were a great number, went to his house, and hastily carried off the statues of [Agrippa I]'s daughters, and all at once carried them into the brothels, and when they had set them on the brothel roofs, they abused them to the utmost of their power, and did such things to them as are too indecent to be related". Once her brother
Herod Agrippa II had been assigned the
tetrarchy of
Herod Philip I (along with
Batanea,
Trachonites and
Abila) in around 49/50, he broke off her engagement and gave her in marriage to
Gaius Julius Azizus, priest king of the
Emesene dynasty, who had consented to be circumcised. ==See also==