Ptolemy XIV Philopator

Following the death of his older brother Ptolemy XIII of Egypt on January 13, 47 BC, and according to his will, he was proclaimed Pharaoh and co-ruler by their older sister and remaining Pharaoh, Cleopatra VII of Egypt.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=psKZBAAAQBAJ&q=Ptolemy+XIV&pg=PR24|title=The Empire of the Ptolemies|last=Mahaffy|first=John Pentland|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2014|isbn=9781108078658|series=Cambridge Library Collection|location=Cambridge, England and New York|pages=xxiv|language=en|orig-year=1895}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GmeoAwAAQBAJ&q=Ptolemy+XIV&pg=PT75|title=Antony & Cleopatra: The Doomed Love Affair That United Ancient Rome & Egypt|last=Southern|first=Patricia|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited|year=2012|isbn=9781445608877|location=Stroud, England|language=en|orig-year=2010}} He was about 12 years old when he acceded to the throne.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/cleopatraegyptsl0000blac|url-access=registration|title=Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen|last=Blackaby|first=Susan|publisher=Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.|year=2009|isbn=9781402765407|series=Sterling Biographies|location=New York and London|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cleopatraegyptsl0000blac/page/27 27]|language=en}} He and his older sister, Cleopatra, were married, but Cleopatra continued to act as lover of Roman dictator Julius Caesar. Ptolemy is considered to have reigned in name only, as a concession to Egyptian tradition, with Cleopatra keeping actual authority.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cLBhof4h2K4C&q=Ptolemy+XIV&pg=PA349|title=A History of the Ptolemaic Empire|last1=Holbl|first1=Gunther|last2=Hölbl|first2=Günther|publisher=Routledge|year=2003|isbn=9780415201452|location=London and New York|pages=237|language=en|translator-last=Saavedra|translator-first=Tina|orig-year=2001}}

On 15 March 44 BC Caesar was murdered in Rome by a group of conspirators whose most notable members were Brutus and Cassius. Ptolemy soon followed him in death.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}} An inscription mentioning him as alive was dated at 26 July 44 BC.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KSonyiReFY8C&q=Ptolemy+XIV&pg=PR13|title=The Reign of Cleopatra|last=Burstein|first=Stanley Mayer|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|year=2007|isbn=9780806138718|location=Norman, OK|pages=xiii|language=en}} It has been assumed but remains uncertain that Cleopatra poisoned her co-ruler, with aconite, to replace him with his nephew Ptolemy XV Caesar, her son by Caesar who was proclaimed co-ruler on 2 September 44 BC and whom his mother intended to support as successor of his father.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T4g9BAAAQBAJ&q=Ptolemy+XIV|title=A History of Egypt under the Ptolemaic Dynasty|last=Bevan|first=Edwyn|publisher=Routledge|year=2014|isbn=9781317682257|series=Routledge Revivals|location=New York and London|pages=369|language=en|orig-year=1927}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-aFtPdh6-2QC&q=Ptolemy+XIV&pg=PA172|title=Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece|last=Rice|first=E. E.|publisher=Routledge|year=2006|isbn=9780415973342|editor-last=Wilson|editor-first=Nigel Guy|location=New York and London|pages=172|language=en}}

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• [http://virtualreligion.net/iho/ptolemy_14.html Ptolemy XIV Theos Philopator II] entry in historical sourcebook by Mahlon H. Smith

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