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  Laodice I (flourished 3rd century BC, died before 236 BC) was an Anatolian noblewoman who was a close relative of the early Seleucid Dynasty and was the first wife of the Seleucid Greek King Antiochus II Theos.[1]
  
  Family Background
  
  Laodice was a woman of Greek Macedonian and Persian descent. According to Eusebius of Caesarea (1.251), she was a daughter of Achaeus by an unnamed Greek mother. Her father Achaeus was a wealthy nobleman who owned estates in Anatolia. Her family had power in Anatolia with strong royal connections.[2] She had one sister, Antiochis, and two brothers, Alexander and Andromachus.[3]
  
  Her father Achaeus was the second son of King Seleucus I Nicator and his first wife Apama I.[4][5] Her name implies a strong Seleucid connection,[6] as she was the namesake of her paternal aunt and her paternal great grandmother of this name.
  Life & Marriage
  
  Her birth date is unknown,[7] and little is known on her early life. Laodice I married her paternal first cousin Antiochus II Theos before 266 BC as his first wife.[7] She married Antiochus II before he was the heir to the Seleucid throne.[3]
  
  When her paternal uncle Antiochus I Soter died in 261 BC, Antiochus II succeeded his father. Through her marriage Laodice I became a Seleucid Queen. Little is known on her relationship with Antiochus II. Laodice I bore her cousin-husband two sons: Seleucus II Callinicus, Antiochus Hierax and three daughters: Apama, Stratonice of Cappadocia and Laodice.[8]
  Her divorce with Antiochus II
  
  In 252 BC after the Second Syrian War, Antiochus II was obliged to make peace with the Egyptian Greek Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus. Antiochus II made peace with the Pharaoh by divorcing Laodice I and marrying the daughter of Ptolemy II, Berenice as his second wife with the understanding that any children born from their union will inherit the Seleucid throne.[9]
  
  Although Laodice I was no longer a Queen or the wife of a King, Laodice was still a very powerful and political influential figure. In her divorce settlement, Antiochus II gave Laodice I various land grants throughout Anatolia which are known through inscriptions.[10] Laodice I owned a large estate in the Hellespont,[3] other properties near Cyzicus,[1] Ilion and in Caria.[3] In a royal record at Sardis mentions her land titles were to be kept as royal land in disposal in grants or sales.[11]
  
  In a clause in her divorce settlement with Antiochus II, Laodice I was allowed to sell or donate land in which she had the right to choose which attachment of a city were to be passed on to the new landlord, unless Laodice I had taken care of the matter herself.[12] Antiochus II gave her, a grace period to settle matters on her land before she decided whether to hold on to the land or depose it. [13] She may have been given the revenue of two harvests with which to pay a nominal purchase price to set at the valuation of the land for tax purposes.[13] When Laodice I was able to make payment, the land she intended to purchase could remain part of royal land and couldn’t be made as a part of an attachment to a city. The only one who could order to reallocate or rearrange land lots was the King.[13]
  
  When Laodice I sold a land attachment, the new owner was not permitted to remove it from the city or attach it to another. As she was a former Queen and former wife of a King, as a part of a land sale she possessed everything on the land that was transferred to her during the sale. She collected revenue from annual agriculture harvests and other forms from her lands. Antiochus II, on one occasion, granted Laodice I a complete property tax exemption.[14]
  Deaths of Antiochus II; his second family and eventually War
  
  During Antiochus II’s marriage to Berenice, she bore him a son called Antiochus. Laodice I lived at Ephesus.[3] On January 28 246 BC, Ptolemy II died,[1] and was succeeded by Ptolemy III Euergetes. After the death of Ptolemy II, Antiochus II left his second family in Antioch and returned to Laodice I. Antiochus II named his first son with Laodice I as his successor to the throne.[9]
  
  In July 246 BC Antiochus II died (some suggest that he was poisoned by a revengeful Laodice) leaving a confusing dynastic situation. Seleucus II succeeded his father as King and his brother Antiochus Hierax was named co-ruler in Sardis. They lived with Laodice I at Ephesus.[1] Laodice I, either for revenge or to prevent civil war, had Berenice and her son murdered in the late summer of 246 BC.[9]
  
  The brother of Berenice, Ptolemy III out of his outrage declared war and invaded the Seleucid Empire. His suspicions about the deaths of his sister and nephew were firmly grounded and were a part of the cause of the Third Syrian War also known as the ‘Laodicean War’ or the ‘War of Laodice’. [3] Ptolemy III captured Laodice I and had her killed.[9] This happened no earlier than 236 BC because there are two honorific inscriptions in Babylon dedicated to her dated to 247 BC and 237 BC. Before she died and during the war while Seleucus II was fighting Ptolemy III, Laodice I supported the revolt of her second son against her first son. This occurred in 244 BC which caused a civil war for the next 17 years between Seleucus II and Antiochus Hierax

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Gezin van Laodice I Seleukid

Zij is getrouwd met Antiochus II "Theos" Seleukid.

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3. Laodice Seleukid   
4. Seleucus II "Callinicus" Seleukid   
5. Stratonice van Syrië   

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