Biography of Cleopatra VII Philopator 69BC 30BC

Paternal Family Tree: Macedonia

Before 69BC [her father] Ptolemy XII Auletes Pharoah of Egypt 117BC 51BC (age 47) and [her mother] Cleopatra V Tryphaena 57BC were married. They were uncle and niece.

In 69BC Cleopatra VII Philopator 69BC 30BC was born to [her father] Ptolemy XII Auletes Pharoah of Egypt 117BC 51BC (age 48) and [her mother] Cleopatra V Tryphaena 57BC. Coefficient of inbreeding 47.27%.

Before 21st March 51BC [her father] Ptolemy XII Auletes Pharoah of Egypt 117BC 51BC (age 66) died. His daughter Cleopatra (age 18) succeeded Pharaoh of Egypt.

Around October 50BC Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator 61BC 47BC (age 11) and Cleopatra VII Philopator 69BC 30BC (age 19) were married. They were brother and sister.

On 13th January 47BC [her half-brother] Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator 61BC 47BC (age 14) drowned in the River Nile following, or during the course of, the Battle of the Nile.

After 13th January 47BC Ptolemy XIV Philopator 59BC 44BC and Cleopatra VII Philopator 69BC 30BC (age 22) were married. They were brother and sister.

On 23rd June 47BC [her son] Ptolemy XV Ceasar aka Caesarion 47BC 30BC was born to Gaius Julius Caesar 100BC 44BC and Cleopatra VII Philopator 69BC 30BC (age 22).

After 26th March 44BC [her half-brother] Ptolemy XIV Philopator 59BC 44BC died.

Around July 40BC [her daughter] Cleopatra Selene II 40BC 5BC was born to Mark Antony 83BC 30BC (age 43) and Cleopatra VII Philopator 69BC 30BC (age 29).

Death of Antony and Cleopatra

On 10th August 30BC Cleopatra VII Philopator 69BC 30BC (age 39) committed suicide.

Cassius Dio Roman History Book 51 Chapter 14. 10th August 30BC. 1. And no one knows clearly by what means she [Cleopatra VII Philopator 69BC 30BC (age 39)] was destroyed: for only small punctures were found around her arm: some say that an asp was brought to her in a water jar or even in some flowers.

1. καὶ τὸ μὲν σαφὲς οὐδεὶς οἶδεν ᾧ τρόπῳ διεφθάρη: κεντήματα γὰρ λεπτὰ περὶ τὸν βραχίονα αὐτῆς μόνα εὑρέθη: λέγουσι δὲ οἱ μὲν ὅτι ἀσπίδα ἐν ὑδρίᾳ ἢ καὶ ἐν ἄνθεσί τισιν ἐσκομισθεῖσάν οἱ.

Cassius Dio Roman History Book 51 Chapter 13. 10th August 30BC. 5. She [Cleopatra VII Philopator 69BC 30BC (age 39)] gave orders to Epaphroditus, so that under the pretext of taking him away, she could have something else cleared from her path, and thus she attended to the task. After putting on her most splendid clothing, arranging herself in the most becoming manner, and assuming her entire royal appearance, she died.

5. Ἐπαφροδίτῳ σεσημασμένον, ὅπως προφάσει τῆς ἀποκομιδῆς αὐτοῦ ὡς καὶ ἄλλο τι ἔχοντος ἐκποδών οἱ γένηται, δοῦσα ἔργου εἴχετο. τήν τε γὰρ ἐσθῆτα τὴν περικαλλεστάτην ἐνδῦσα, καὶ ἑαυτὴν εὐπρεπέστατα εὐθετήσασα, τό τε σχῆμα τὸ βασιλικὸν πᾶν ἀναλαβοῦσα, ἀπέθανε.

Memoires of Jacques du Clercq

This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.

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1658. Guido Cagnacci (age 56). "The Death of Cleopatra".

1674 to 1675. Benedetto Gennari II (age 40). "Cleopatra".

1797. Jean-Baptiste Regnault (age 42). "The Death of Cleoptra".

1874. Jean-André Rixens (age 27). "The Death of Cleopatra".

1890. John Collier (age 39). The Death of Cleopatra.

1892. Reginald Arthur Smith (age 21). "Cleopatra".

1744. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (age 47). "The Banquet of Cleopatra".

1787. Louis Gauffier (age 25). "Cleopatra and Octavian".

1866. Jean-Léon Gérôme (age 41). "Cleopatra and Ceasar".

1881. Frank Bernard Dicksee (age 27). "Cleopatra".

Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses

Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.

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