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Personal data Mithradates III Euergetes King of Pontus 

• He was born about -240 in Kizil Irmak Area,Black Coast,Turkey.
• He was baptized.
• He died about -185 in Pontus, TurkeyPontus.
• A child of Mithridates II King of Pontus King of Pontus and Laodice II Queen of Pontus Queen of Pontus
• This information was last updated on June 5, 2011.

Household of Mithradates III Euergetes King of Pontus

He had a relationship with Laodice.

Child(ren):

1. Laodice de Syrie  ± 240-???? 
2. Mithradates IV King of Pontus  ????-± 150 
3. Pharnaces I King of Pontus King of Pontus  ± 225-± 170 

Notes about Mithradates III Euergetes King of Pontus

Ruled 67 BC, King of Media Atropatene
Event: Ruled 57 - 54 BC, King of Parthia (Pretender) 1
Note: Mithradates III murdered his father Phraates about 57 B.C., with the assistance of his brother Orodes. He was made king of Media andwaged war against his brother, but was soon deposed on account of hiscruelty. He took refuge with Gabinius, the Roman proconsul of Syria. He advanced into Mesopotamia, but was beaten at Seleucia by Surenas, fled into Babylon and after a long siege was taken prisoner and killed in 54 by his brother Orodes I.

Birth: in c. 220 - 185 BC 1
Event: Ancestor M
Event: Ruled 250 - 220 BC, King of Pontus 1
Note:
Mithradates III was very young when he succeeded his father, Ariobarzanes, c. 255 B.C. Early in his reign the Gauls (people of Galatia] invaded Pontus. Mithradates was at the battle of Ancyra (c. 240), in which he assisted Antiochus Hierax against his brother Seleucus Callinicus. His wife, their sister Laodice, had brought him Greater Phrygia as her dowry; and his daughter, also named Laodice, married Antiochus theGreat. He attacked Sinope (c. 220), but it was not taken until after his death (c. 185). His son and successor Pharnaces I took Sinope (which he made the capital of the kingdom instead of Amasia) and tried also to extend his power into the Chersonesus Taurica

Ruled 67 BC, King of Media Atropatene
Event: Ruled 57 - 54 BC, King of Parthia (Pretender) 1
Note: Mithradates III murdered his father Phraates about 57 B.C., with the assistance of his brother Orodes. He was made king of Media andwaged war against his brother, but was soon deposed on account of hiscruelty. He took refuge with Gabinius, the Roman proconsul of Syria. He advanced into Mesopotamia, but was beaten at Seleucia by Surenas, fled into Babylon and after a long siege was taken prisoner and killed in 54 by his brother Orodes I.

Birth: in c. 220 - 185 BC 1
Event: Ancestor M
Event: Ruled 250 - 220 BC, King of Pontus 1
Note:
Mithradates III was very young when he succeeded his father, Ariobarzanes, c. 255 B.C. Early in his reign the Gauls (people of Galatia] invaded Pontus. Mithradates was at the battle of Ancyra (c. 240), in which he assisted Antiochus Hierax against his brother Seleucus Callinicus. His wife, their sister Laodice, had brought him Greater Phrygia as her dowry; and his daughter, also named Laodice, married Antiochus theGreat. He attacked Sinope (c. 220), but it was not taken until after his death (c. 185). His son and successor Pharnaces I took Sinope (which he made the capital of the kingdom instead of Amasia) and tried also to extend his power into the Chersonesus Taurica

Ruled 67 BC, King of Media Atropatene
Event: Ruled 57 - 54 BC, King of Parthia (Pretender) 1
Note: Mithradates III murdered his father Phraates about 57 B.C., with the assistance of his brother Orodes. He was made king of Media andwaged war against his brother, but was soon deposed on account of hiscruelty. He took refuge with Gabinius, the Roman proconsul of Syria. He advanced into Mesopotamia, but was beaten at Seleucia by Surenas, fled into Babylon and after a long siege was taken prisoner and killed in 54 by his brother Orodes I.

Birth: in c. 220 - 185 BC 1
Event: Ancestor M
Event: Ruled 250 - 220 BC, King of Pontus 1
Note:
Mithradates III was very young when he succeeded his father, Ariobarzanes, c. 255 B.C. Early in his reign the Gauls (people of Galatia] invaded Pontus. Mithradates was at the battle of Ancyra (c. 240), in which he assisted Antiochus Hierax against his brother Seleucus Callinicus. His wife, their sister Laodice, had brought him Greater Phrygia as her dowry; and his daughter, also named Laodice, married Antiochus theGreat. He attacked Sinope (c. 220), but it was not taken until after his death (c. 185). His son and successor Pharnaces I took Sinope (which he made the capital of the kingdom instead of Amasia) and tried also to extend his power into the Chersonesus Taurica

Mithridates III of Pontus
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mithridates III (in Greek M????d?t??) was the fourth king of Pontus, probably son of Mithridates II. He may have ruled in an uncertain period between 220 BC and 183 BC. Nothing is known of him since the years just cited, because the kingdom of Pontus disappears from history. His same existence is contested by certain historians, even if it is necessary to account for Appian's indication of Mithridates Eupator as the eighth king of the dynasty and the sixth of the name.1

Preceded by:
Mithridates II King of Pontus
c. 210 BC – c. 190 BC Succeeded by:
Pharnaces I
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References

* Hazel, John. Who's Who in the Greek World. "Mithridates III", 2003.

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Note
1 Appian, The Foreign Wars, "The Mithridatic war", 9, 112

{geni:about_me} King of Pontos, in modern-day Turkey. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kings_of_Pontus

He ruled Pontos from 255 to 185 bc.

He ruled Pontos from 255 to 185 bc.

SOURCE NOTES:
Occupation: King of Pontos

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