id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8946 Berenice III - Wikipedia .html text/html 3263 849 72 Their heritage became a very prominent symbol in their reign taking from both of their parent cultures and intertwining it into their rule.[3] Berenice's father was Ptolemy IX Soter, who became king of Egypt in 116 BC, with his mother Cleopatra III as his co-regent and the dominant force in government. Ptolemy IX and Cleopatra III eventually came into conflict with one another. They probably had a son together, the future Ptolemy XI, but around 103 BC Cleopatra III forced them to divorce so that Cleopatra Selene could be married to the Seleucid king Antiochus VIII.[8] In 101 BC, Ptolemy X had Cleopatra III murdered. Some sources claim that Ptolemy IX had made Berenice III his co-regent at the start of his second reign in 88 BC, but all documentary evidence shows that he reigned alone until this point. "Cleopatra Berenice III Livius". Ptolemy X and Cleopatra III ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8946.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8946.txt