Arsinoe IV’s Early Life As A Ptolemaic Princess. Egypt’s Ptolemaic rulers had a complicated family tree. King Ptolemy XII Auletes counted among his children at least three queens and two kings.

Born to Egyptian king Ptolemy XII Auletes and an unknown mother in 69 B.C., Cleopatra was a member of an ancient Greek dynasty that had taken over Egypt in 305 B.C.

The Ptolemy's bloody history. Arsinoe IV was Cleopatra's younger half-sister or sister, both of them fathered by Ptolemy XII Auletes, though whether they shared a mother is not clear.

Born in the earlier part of 69 BC to Ptolemaic pharaoh Ptolemy XII Auletes and an unknown mother, Cleopatra’s ancestry is disputed to be Greek, Persian and Ptolemaic – Ptolemies were not ...

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