Ptolemy XIV of Egypt
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- ''Numbering the Ptolemies is a modern invention; the Greeks distinguished them by nickname. The number given here is the present consensus; but there has been some disagreement about which Ptolemies should be counted as reigning. Older sources may give a number one higher or lower, but the same epithet.
Ptolemy XIV (
Greek:
Πτολεμαίος, who lived
60 BC/
59 BC –
44 BC and reigned
47 BC –
44 BC), was a son of
Ptolemy XII of Egypt and one of the last members of the
Ptolemaic dynasty of
Egypt. Following the death of his older brother
Ptolemy XIII of Egypt on
January 13,
47 BC, he was proclaimed
Pharaoh and co-ruler by their older sister and remaining Pharaoh
Cleopatra VII of Egypt. Cleopatra also married her new co-ruler but continued to act as lover of
Roman dictator Julius Caesar. Ptolemy is considered to have reigned in name only, with Cleopatra keeping actual authority to herself. On
March 15,
44 BC Caesar was murdered in
Rome by a group of conspirators whose most notable members were
Marcus Junius Brutus and
Gaius Cassius Longinus. Ptolemy soon followed him in death. An inscription mentioning him as alive was dated at
July 26,
44 BC. It has been assumed but remains uncertain that Cleopatra poisoned her co-ruler to replace him with
Ptolemy XV Caesarion, her son by Caesar who was proclaimed co-ruler on
September 2,
44 BC and whom his mother intended to support as successor of his father.
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