Berenice of Cilicia (daughter of Herod Agrippa I)

Berenice of Cilicia, also known as Julia Berenice and sometimes spelled Bernice (28 CE – ?

), is a Jewish client queen of the Roman Empire during the second half of the 1st century.

Berenice was a member of the Herodian Dynasty that rules the Roman province of Judaea between 39 BCE and 92 CE.

She is the daughter of King Herod Agrippa I and a sister of King Herod Agrippa II.

What little is known about the life and background of Berenice has been handed down to us through the New Testament book of Acts, the 25th chapter.

Also the early historian Flavius Josephus, who detailed a history of the Jewish people and wrote an account of the Jewish Rebellion of 67.

It is for her tumultuous love life however that Berenice is primarily known today.

After a number of failed marriages throughout the 40s, she spends much of the remainder of her life at court of her brother Agrippa II, amid rumors the two are carrying on an incestuous relationship.

During the First Jewish-Roman War, she begins a love affair with the future emperor Titus Flavius Vespasianus.

Her unpopularity among the Romans however compels Titus to dismiss Berenice upon his accession as emperor in 79.

When he dies two years later, so does Berenice disappear from the historical record.

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