Pedigree: Mithridates VI `the Great' (King) of PONTUS

The PEDIGREE of

Mithridates VI `the Great' (King) of PONTUS

aka Mithradates VI Eupator Dionysius; also King of ARMENIA Minor; (eponym of Mithridatism, his practice of ingesting small doses of snake venom to build up immunity)

Note: There was a king reigned in the East:
There, when kings will sit to feast,
They get their fill before they think
With poisoned meat and poisoned drink.
He gathered all that sprang to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more,
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling, seasoned sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
They put arsenic in his meat
And stared aghast to watch him eat;
They poured strychnine in his cup
And shook to see him drink it up:
They shook, they stared as white's their shirt:
Them it was their poison hurt.
--I tell the tale that I heard told.
Mithridates, he died old.
-- A. E. Housman

Born: abt. 132 BC Died: 63 BC suicide, assisted by Bituitus the Gaul

HM George I's 56-Great Grandfather. HRE Ferdinand I's 52-Great Grandfather. Poss. Agnes Harris's 46-Great Grandfather. `Osawatomie' Brown's 62-Great Grandfather.

poss. Wives/Partners: Antiochis(?) (Princess) of PERGAMUM ; Komosarye ; Berenice of COMMAGENE ; Cleopatra of ATHAMANIE ; Laodice (Queen) of PONTUS ; Hypsicratea ; Berenice of COMMAGENE ; Laodice
Children: Pharnaces II (King) of PONTUS ; daughter of Mithridates VI ; Cleopatra of PONTUS ; Mithridates ; Arcathius ; Machares ; Drypetina ; Nysa (suicide with father)

Possible Children: Berenice (Princess) of PERGAMUM ; Athenais (PHILOSTORGOS) ; Hnott (Princess) of PONTOS
Alternative Father of Possible Children: Attalus III Philometor Euergetes ATTALID, q.v.

_________	_________	_________	________	________	________
			/	-- Ariobarzanes (II; King) of PONTUS +		====> [ 154 ,,qd]
			/		/ OR: (NN) of MITHRIDATID Dynasty +	====> [ 103 ,,y]
		/	-- Mithridates (III; IV; King) of PONTUS
	/	-- Pharnaces I (King) of PONTUS
	\|	\	/	-- Antiochus II `Theos' (King) of SYRIA +		==&=> [ 156 ,,qD,&]
	\|	\	-- Laodice (III) of SYRIA
	/		\	-- Laodice I (II ?) of SYRIA +		====> [ 156 ,,qd,&]
/	-- Mithridates V EUERGETES (King) of PONTUS (? - 121? BC)
\|	\		/	-- Antiochus III `Megas' (King) of SYRIA +		==&=> [ 158 ,,qD,&]
\|	\|	/	-- Antiochus (Prince) of SYRIA
\|	\|	/	\	-- Laodice (Laodike) III (IV) of PONTUS +		==&=> [ 158 ,,qD,&]
\|	\	-- Nysas of SYRIA
\|		\	/	-- Philip V `Philhellin' (King) of MACEDONIA +		====> [ 157 ,,qdY,&]
\|		\	-- Laodice IV of SYRIA [alt ped] (? - 162? BC)
\|			\	/ OR: prob. Laodice IV of SYRIA +		==&=> [ 159 ,,qD,&]
/			\	-- Polycrateia (Polycretia) of ARGOS +		====> [ 2]
- Mithridates VI `the Great' (King) of PONTUS
\			/	-- Seleucus II `Kallinikos' (King) of SYRIA +		==&=> [ 157 ,,qD,&]
\|		/	-- Antiochus III `Megas' (King) of SYRIA
\|		/	\	-- Laodice II of SYRIA +		====> [ 157 ,,qd,&]
\|	/	-- Antiochus IV EPIPHANES (King) of SYRIA (? - 164 BC)
\|	\|	\	/	-- Mithridates (III; IV; King) of PONTUS +		====> [ 155 ,,qd]
\|	\|	\	-- Laodice (Laodike) III (IV) of PONTUS
\|	/		\	-- Laodice (III) of SYRIA +		==&=> [ 157 ,,qD,&]
\	-- Laodice (V) of SYRIA
	\		/	-- Demetrius II Aetolicus (King) of MACEDONIA +		====> [ 156 ,,qd,&]
	\|	/	-- Philip V `Philhellin' (King) of MACEDONIA
	\|	/	\	-- Phthia (Chryseis-Phthia) of EPIRUS +		====> [ 118 ,,Y]
	\	-- Laodice IV of SYRIA [alt ped] (? - 162? BC)
		\	/ OR: prob. Laodice IV of SYRIA +			==&=> [ 159 ,,qD,&]
		\|	/	-- Mnasiadas of ARGOS +		====> [ 1]
		\	-- Polycrateia (Polycretia) of ARGOS

His (poss.) Grandchildren: Dynamis (Heiress) of PONTUS ; Archelaus of BELLONA ; daughter of Tigranes II ; Dght IV (Princess) of ARMENIA ; Artavasdes II (King) of ARMENIA ; Hutoma (Co-heiress) of ARMENIA ; Adobogiona Philoromaios of the TOLISTOBOGII ; (Miss) of GALATIA ; Isias PHILOSTROGOS of CAPPADOCIA ; Frigg (Frigida) of ASALAND