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Herod Antipas 21BC-AD39
Ruler of Palestine in Roman times
The son of Herod the Great, by whose will he was named tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea, he divorced his first wife in order to marry Herodias, the wife of his half-brother Philip - a union against which John the Baptist remonstrated at the cost of his life. It was when Herod Antipas was in Jerusalem for the Passover that Jesus was sent before him by Pontius Pilate for examination. In AD39 he went to Rome in the hope of obtaining from Caligula the title of king; he not only failed, but, through the intrigues of his nephew Herod Agrippa I, he was banished to Lugdunum (now Lyons, France), where he died.
Bibliography: A H Jones, Herods of Judea (1938)
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