Ptolemy XI Alexander II

Ptolemy XI Alexander II

▪ king of Egypt
born c. 115
died 80 BC

      last fully legitimate Ptolemaic king of Egypt, who, after marrying Berenice III, Ptolemy IX Soter II's widow, and joining her as coruler, murdered her and seized sole power. He was killed by the infuriated people of Alexandria.

      Ptolemy XI was a son of Ptolemy X Alexander I, ruler of Egypt and Cyprus. During the war with the Seleucid empire conducted by his grandmother Queen Cleopatra III, and his father, he was sent, with substantial treasure, to the Aegean island of Cos for safekeeping.

      Around the time of his father's death in 88 he was captured by Mithradates VI Eupator, king of Pontus in northern Anatolia, who had just routed a Roman general and seized Cos, among other territories. Although the Pontic king treated him well and even educated him, Ptolemy Alexander fled to the Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Sulla, Lucius Cornelius) during a battle between the Romans and Mithradates in 84. Carried off to Rome, he remained there as a politically valuable hostage until 81, when his uncle Ptolemy IX Soter II died. After Soter II's widow, Berenice III, assumed sole rule, Sulla, without consulting either the queen or the people of Egypt, sent Ptolemy Alexander to marry Berenice. Unable to coexist with the queen, who insisted on ruling alone, Ptolemy murdered her after about 19 days of joint rule. The people of Alexandria, who had greatly admired the queen, killed him in revenge, thus eliminating the last fully legitimate member of the Ptolemaic dynasty.

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