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Herodias - daughter of Aristobulus, one of the sons of Mariamne and Herod the Great, and consequently sister of Agrippa

I. She first married Herod Philip

I. ; then she eloped from him to marry Herod Antipas her step-uncle. The head of John the Baptist was granted at the request of Herodias. (Matthew 14:8-11; Mark 6:24-28) (A.D. 29.) She accompanied Antipas into exile to Lugdunum

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