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Personal data Roxanne van Bactrië 

• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Roxane (uit het Perzisch: ????? roshanak (uit het Proto-Indisch rucana van ruc: schijnen. Vglb. Lat. lux: licht) was de eerste vrouw van Alexander de Grote.
  
  Roxane kwam uit de Oost-Iraanse gebied Bactrië en ze kreeg één zoon van Alexander (Alexander IV) maar Alexander stierf voordat de baby geboren was. Ze vluchtte naar Macedonië, waar ze de bescherming kreeg van Olympias, de moeder van Alexander. Ze slaagden erin om haar zoontje en de broer van Alexander, Arrhidaeus, op de troon te krijgen. Dat ging goed onder de regenten Perdiccas (323-321) en Antipater (321-319). Na hun dood grepen de gouverneurs in de provincies (de Diadochen) de macht en voerden oorlog om de verdeling van het rijk van Alexander. Olympias en Roxane konden dit niet volhouden. In 310/309 v.Chr. werd ze samen met het haar zoontje vermoord door Cassander of ook Kassandros.

• (Levens event) .Source 2

  Roxana (Avestan: Raoxshna or Roshanak, "luminous beauty"; Persian: ??????? Rokhsana; Pashto: ??????? Rox?ana), sometimes Roxanne, Roxanna, Roxandra and Roxane, was a Bactrian (Afghanistan) princess and a wife of Alexander the Great. She was born earlier than the year 343 BC, though the precise date remains uncertain
  
  Life
  
  Roxana was the daughter of a Bactrian named Oxyartes of Balkh in Bactria (around modern-day Balkh province of Afghanistan), and married Alexander at the age of 16 after he visited the fortress of Sogdian Rock. Balkh was the last of the Persian Empire's provinces to fall to Alexander. Ancient sources describe Alexander's professed love for Roxana. She accompanied him on his campaign in northern India in 326 BC.
  
  After Alexander's sudden death at Babylon in 323 BC, she bore him a posthumous son called Alexander IV Aegus. Also, after Alexander's death, Roxana murdered Alexander's other widow, Stateira II, as well as either Stateira's sister Drypteis[1] or Parysatis II (Alexander's third wife).
  
  Roxana and her son were protected by Alexander's mother, Olympias, in Macedonia, but her assassination in 316 BC allowed Cassander to seek kingship. Since Alexander IV Aegus was the legitimate heir to the Alexandrian empire, Cassander ordered him and Roxana assassinated about 310 BC.

• A child of Oxyartes van Bactrië
• This information was last updated on December 5, 2012.

Household of Roxanne van Bactrië

She is married to Alexander I "de Grote" van Macedonië.

They got marriedSource 3

Child(ren):

1. Aesopia van Macedonië   
2. (Not public)

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