General Notes

Was the ruler, upon inhheritance from husband Alexander Jannæus.
Queen of Judea (76 BCE-67 BCE)

High Priestess of Judaea Alexandra Salome of Judaea died 0067 B.C.. She died as the army of her younger son, Aristobulus II, was preparing to lay siege to Jerusalem. She practically surrendered the rule to the Pharisees on acceding to the kingdom. She did not begin her own rule until she was sixty-four years old 0076 BCE. High Priestess, Judea, Palestine, 0076-0067 B.C.. She freed Alexander Jannaeus from prison and appointed him King of Judea 0103 BCE. She married High Priest of Judaea Alexander Jannaeus the Hasmonean, son of High Priest of Judaea John Hyrcanus I the Hasmonean and N. N. (?), 0103 BCE; Her 2nd (widow). She was born 0140 BCE. Her Hebrew name was Salome. She was a woman "who showed no signs of the weakness of her sex". She was fifteen years older than Jannaeus. She married King of Judaea Judah Aristobulus I the Hasmonean, son of High Priest of Judaea John Hyrcanus I the Hasmonean and N. N. (?); Her 1st.  Children of High Priestess of Judaea Alexandra Salome of Judaea and High Priest of Judaea Alexander Jannaeus the Hasmonean:  King of Judaea Judah Aristobulus II the Hasmonean+ b. 0100-0098 BCE, d. 0049 B.C. High Priest of Judaea John Hyrcanus II the Hasmonean+ b. 0100-0102 BCE, d. 0030 B.C.  High Priestess of Judaea. The widow of both Aristobulus I and Alexander Jannai. Became only the second female monarch in Judean history. But she was dominated by the Pharisees, whom her late husband had advised her to placate. The Pharisees' unrestrained campaign of revenge against Alexander's former associates in turn alienated the aristocratic Sadducees and her own younger son, Aristobulus II. She died as the latter's army was preparing to lay siege to Jerusalem.